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Just started re-playing this on my old laptop, and man is this feel ripped straight from 40k lore. Apparently it's based on an old British Comic by the same people that did Judge Dredd. Is it heavily 40k inspired, or is that just my feeling?

FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Just started re-playing this on my old laptop, and man is this feel ripped straight from 40k lore. Apparently it's based on an old British Comic by the same people that did Judge Dredd. Is it heavily 40k inspired, or is that just my feeling?

Other way around. It was one of the influences on 40k- check the dates (1981 vs 1987)

But several of the video game(s) are based on the board game that GW did based on the comic.

The comics were great. The board game had all of the right kit in it, but it was really long to play and got grindingly boring after a while. I think it was created in the early 80s when there was lots of unemployment so really long winded board games were super useful