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The last word I had from MGP was that they were indeed waiting on the Lawmasters to be cast by Warlord and sent to them for fulfillment. That was a while back though. Nov 7 then again Jan 7. and now it's Feb 7!

Our regular Friday update of the Judge Dredd miniatures game continues on Planet Mongoose. This week, to coincide with the release of the new Chief Judge Cal's Personal Retinue set, we have rules for Shamed Judges. Now you too can make a mockery of Mega-City One's Finest (it is for their own good, really).



You can find the rules here;

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=661

The regular Friday Dredd goodness continues on Planet Mongoose. This time, we introduce a Famous Firefight for you to try out, with Mutie the Pig!

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=669

This week's Planet Mongoose rules article for the Judge Dredd miniatures game is Dino Rampage, a set of rules to get toy dinosaurs fighting your lovingly cared for force - and you don't even need an opponent!

You can read on how to introduce dinosaurs into your games here;

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/?p=705

Because everything is better with dinosaurs...

I'm really disappointed with how my pledge has turned out. The higher you pledged the slower your fulfillment, as Mongoose work their way from bottom to top. That's fine but they've forgotten about me a few times now and need constant reminding.

On top of that with the funds from the kickstarter they've been able to update lots of box sets. Judge Cal's retinue now comes with the disgraced Judges, the Cabal box set comes with additional miniatures which we helped to fund and create but I've recieved all the old box sets.

So for taking a gamble on Mongoose with their reputation I've been forgotten about and fobbed off. Serves me right I guess.

Think yourself lucky you're not in on the Rogue Trooper stuff.
We've been mostly fobbed off and ignored.
It took nearly a year from the funding date before we even saw WIP photos.
I certainly won't be pledging to Mongoose if they ever do another one.

Alas I'm in that one as well, but not for too much.

I've been pretty vocal about my disappointment with the Dredd kickstarter. It would have to be the deal of a lifetime to get me to support another Mongoose project, or even buy from them directly. Anything I want from them I'll buy from trusted sellers, or try to get secondhand.

This is a pretty routine sequence:

* Matt makes some declaration about something (All X's have been shipped, this is ready, Y won't go on sale until backers have them, etc)
* Something else actually happens (usually, X isn't shipped, Y goes sale, etc)
* I comment on the something else (publicly or privately)
* Matt chides me for commenting (publicly or privately)
* I coallate and repost his own words (publicly or privately)
* He responds with "oh, process X was broken, we're fixing it"

Rinse, repeat.


On top of that, the pace of miniatures released to Kickstarter backers has slowed down since the Warlord takeover, not increased, although they've created a new number of new Dredd pieces that aren't part of the Kickstarter, as mentioned. And let's not even talk about the rest of the vehicles. The Manta took a year, I wonder how long the Pat Wagons are going to be (if we ever see them) - and the number of "oops it broke, the dog ate my homework" posts is disturbing.



Really disappointing.



That said, the good news (and I keep reminding myself there is good news because the rest is so irritating) is that at least they're shipping stuff. Sure, its a pain in the to track everything (someone has to bother), and figuring is and isn't supposed to be out (and to whom) is an issue, but the models keep trickling out, and most of the models are pretty good. When I get uber-frustrated I got read Defiance Game's or Robotech's comment board, and I think "it could be way worse".

I've lost count of the "photos coming later this week" and "the sculptor has had some personal issues" excuses.