{"product_id":"epic-battles-ork-invasion-citadel-6mm-boxed-set-for-space-marine-games-workshop-1990-oop","title":"Epic Battles: Ork Invasion - Citadel 6mm Boxed Set for Space Marine (Games Workshop, 1990, OOP)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eProduct Overview\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGame System:\u003c\/strong\u003e Space Marine \/ Adeptus Titanicus (Epic scale)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFaction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Orks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReference Number:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0747\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCopyright:\u003c\/strong\u003e Games Workshop Ltd, 1990\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eScale:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6mm Epic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Plastic Citadel miniatures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e Over 300 miniatures, complete with bases\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUnit Types Included:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ork Boyz, Nobz, Gretchin, Madboyz, Wildboyz, Stormboyz, Boarboyz, Standard Bearers, Warbosses, Warbikes, War Buggies, Tractor Beams, and Orks with Heavy Weapons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Manufactured in the UK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAge Rating:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not suitable for children under 14 due to sharp points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStatus:\u003c\/strong\u003e Long out of production\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Epic was Epic 40,000, before it was Epic Armageddon, it was \u003cem\u003eSpace Marine\u003c\/em\u003e - and the whole appeal was scale. Not the size of the models, but the size of the battle. Where Warhammer 40,000 gave you a squad, Epic gave you an army: hundreds of infantry stands, whole formations of vehicles, and Titans towering over all of it. Ork Invasion was Games Workshop's answer to the obvious question of what a proper Waaagh! should look like on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer was three hundred Orks. Boyz in mobs, Nobz driving them forward, Gretchin underfoot, Madboyz doing whatever the Waaagh! energy tells them to do, Stormboyz coming in on rokkit packs, and Boarboyz thundering in on beasts that are barely more controllable than their riders. Add warbikes, war buggies, and tractor beams, and you have a green tide that behaves on the tabletop exactly the way Ork armies are supposed to behave in the fiction - overwhelming, disorganised, and utterly unconcerned with casualties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1990 first-edition box, produced during the period when Games Workshop's Epic range was at its most ambitious. The 6mm plastics were a genuine engineering achievement for their day: recognisable Ork character rendered at a scale where a full model is smaller than a pea. Games Workshop's Epic-scale Ork vehicle work from this exact period was strong enough to win the 1990 Origins Award for Best Vehicular Miniatures Series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCollectible Value\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpic-scale boxed sets from the early 1990s are among the harder Games Workshop products to find intact, for a simple reason: they were bought to be used. A box of 300 tiny plastic infantry was a working army, and working armies get clipped from sprues, glued, based, flocked, painted, and gradually dispersed across decades of collections. Complete boxes with original packaging survive at a fraction of the rate that later, more collectible-conscious releases do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal 1990 boxes carry a further premium over the 1993 reissue among collectors who track edition variants, and the box art and back-panel diagrams of this era are themselves period artifacts - a document of how Games Workshop presented the Epic line at its height. The Space Marine and Adeptus Titanicus systems have long since been retired, giving this the closed-catalogue status that drives sustained interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the collector market, there is real demand from active hobbyists. Epic-scale Orks remain sought after by Adeptus Titanicus and Legions Imperialis players looking for period-correct infantry to populate objectives and bases, and by anyone building a retro Epic force in the original style. That dual demand - collectors and players competing for the same finite supply - is what keeps vintage Epic pricing firm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOrder Now\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage Epic boxed sets do not restock. When one sells, the replacement waits on another collection coming apart. Add Ork Invasion to your cart and put three hundred Orks on the table. Please review all listing photographs carefully for box condition and contents before ordering. Packed with care and shipped promptly from Hammer of War in Tacoma, Washington - message us with any questions about contents or combined shipping before you buy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":59832175231262,"sku":null,"price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/5462\/1726\/files\/20250820-00024.jpg?v=1787536111","url":"https:\/\/www.hammerofwar.us\/products\/epic-battles-ork-invasion-citadel-6mm-boxed-set-for-space-marine-games-workshop-1990-oop","provider":"Hammer of War","version":"1.0","type":"link"}