NetEpic - What is it.

NetEpic evolved out of the 2nd edition Space Marine game (SM2), commonly referred to as Epic.  It is a fan authored set of rules and army lists that improve and expand the classic SM2 experience.  Players familiar with SM2 will feel at home playing NetEpic, but some of the changes include:

• Alternating movement - no longer "I go, you go" but a proper alternating activation system.
• Hidden orders/fog of war - you only reveal a units' orders as it is activated.  This is quite an important change...movement can be a very tense phase.
• Titans are much stronger and able to brush aside infantry swarms and the like.
• Superheavy damage table.  More durability for your superheavies.
• New costing system for titans.  The more you tool them up the more they cost!
• Templates for Praetorians.  They become serious units now and much harder to kill.
• Heavily revised and improved pinning system.  Allows sensible things like titans not being pinned by some gretchin, and makes units like knights much more valuable.
• Snapfire.  Important in combination with alternating movement.
• Split of the old command unit ability into HQ (can't be targetted) and Command (don't need orders, can move charge rate and still shoot).
• Standardisation of lots of special rules into a set of ability descriptions with keywords.