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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...

Why is Rebellion software also listed on the box?

I believe they actually bought 2000AD back in the day! Presumably at the peak of their AvP money.

 BrookM wrote:
Why is Rebellion software also listed on the box?

Rebellion publish 2000AD, the source material for the game.

Ahhh, okay, thanks for the clarification.

Well, guess I'll wait until this one is up at Warlord and see what this is going to cost me.

 BrookM wrote:
Ahhh, okay, thanks for the clarification.

Well, guess I'll wait until this one is up at Warlord and see what this is going to cost me.

Per the link: £75.00

metal? plastic? resin? Given the price I'd guess metal.

All metal.

Do we not even have a listing of what is in the box just "a full force"?

 Foda_Bett wrote:
Do we not even have a listing of what is in the box just "a full force"?

http://store.warlordgames.com/products/judge-dredd-starter-set?utm_source=Warlord+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1a9343be01-Newsletter_15_November_201311_15_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b7e928b4ed-1a9343be01-121439234

The warlord listing is clearer. You get the rules, the justice department boxed set (8 metal figures), the street gang boxed set (8 metal figures), 2 metal special figures (1 judge, 1 punk) and a quick start guide.

It's a good value, £90 worth of models and books, plus two extra minis and a quick-start set, for £75, not bad in my books. Plus, no pre-ordering or anything, it's on sale right now, even better!

For those curious about the contents of both gangs:

Judges: 1 Street Judge, 1 female Psi-Judge, 2 Cadet Judges, Street Judge with two Lawgivers, Riot Judge with riot shield, Riot Judge with Riot Foam and 1 Specialist Weapons Judge.



Punks: 6 Juves, 1 Punk Psychic, 1 Punk with heavy weapon.



And the two exclusives:

ooh! an AT-ST pilot!

I've really grown to like this game.

And for someone who had a massive hate on for Mongoose in the past, thats saying something.

As to the two batches of figures in the set- they are some good starters, and you can use the other figures in the line to add to the game. The book is massive, and the amount of information in there is worth the money. The figures have been priced pretty good for the value, and theres a heck of a selection now.

Alongside this, there is a good amount of info out there from the RPG that you could do some real damage and P and P out your gangs and lawdogs.

I'd really like to see the rest of the vehicles and stuff, but from the small kickstart beginning from the dogturd that was GoMC1, the game has really grown leaps and bounds and the improvements are amazing in scope and the resulting new game is really, really good.

I already have most of thsi stuff, but I may have to buy it just to get duplicates and to get friends into the game.

S t, I got burned so hard on Starship Troopers, but this looks very nice. The figs are metal though, and you don't get a ton for your money. Very telling that Mongoose couldn't be arsed to spring for plastic models.

Still... I'm a sucker for LE figures...

It would be cool if it came with a free comic or something, for those that aren't too up on what Judge Dredd is.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

There are people who don't know about Judge Dredd? Although a comic would have been cool!

Love the box art, the miniatures don't look like the best thing ever made, but when you see them at their 28mm scale I think are pretty cool. That one punk miniature was a member of my Mordheim Pirate gang called 'Roger the cabin boy' for many years

That's one Xmas present sorted out in any case!

 chris_valera wrote:
S t, I got burned so hard on Starship Troopers, but this looks very nice. The figs are metal though, and you don't get a ton for your money. Very telling that Mongoose couldn't be arsed to spring for plastic models.

Still... I'm a sucker for LE figures...

It would be cool if it came with a free comic or something, for those that aren't too up on what Judge Dredd is.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

It's a skirmish game. Plastic just isn't feasible on this scale with such a small market.

I wouldn't be too worried about it being dropped either as thankfully Warlord is handling most of this and they're a great company.

A pity. I had been cautiously optimistic as Judge Dredd seems to be one of the few miniatures lines that Mongoose actually tries to keep supporting.

Those miniatures kill any interest for me, though.

I've been enjoying my kickstarter goodies after me and a friend went for the 500 pledge. The game is excellent. Some miniatures are decidedly old school in style... Some are literally old school. YMMV, I'm torn between loving and hating some at the same time. The bonus of the skirmish gamer is that if you don't want to play a Judge team there's a wealth of alternative miniatures. Punks, Gangsters, Citi Def, Vigilantes, Robots and Apes are all easy to represent without touching a Mongoose miniature. And the new Soviet and Brit Cit Judges are lovely. Mega City One Judges are a bit flakey in art style but I believe that's because Mongoose were trying to imitate the various artists who have worked on the comic.

I'd like to know if you can pick your two starter boxes. I'd be happy to lose out on the ltd edition miniatures to be able to pick two box sets which might appeal more or let me create a thematic intro scenario straight from the comic.

I like the old school look of the line. This being said it certainly has some terrible sculpts. However, amongst these are some nice minis.

Oh yeah, there's some hits, some misses and some horrendous own goals.

How do Mongoose's range size up with the ones from Wargames Foundry?

I think that Judge Dredd is calling out for multi-part plastic (and some better sculpts...)

Matt had mentioned the possibility of multipart plastics for Apocalypse War on the Mongoose forums at some point.

Does anybody know if there are any US gaming sites that carry this product ? I have tried miniaturemarket and trollandtoad with no success.

I saw this being sold by several traders for £65 at an event today. Looks good, and there's all those other boxes of minis like the Dark Judges and Angel Gang too.

For a complete look at the miniatures range, check here: http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/judge-dredd

snaggled wrote:
Does anybody know if there are any US gaming sites that carry this product ? I have tried miniaturemarket and trollandtoad with no success.

www.frpgames.com carries it.

Mongoose says that they have a US warehouse.

I don't know if that's true any more they just did a bunch of re-organisation which killed off at least a part of their US operation (the casting for certain)

 Surtur wrote:
It's a skirmish game. Plastic just isn't feasible on this scale with such a small market.

That's a s t excuse. Necromunda had plastic figures GoMC1 had plastic figures. They could easily have knocked up a sprue of the basic two starter gangs, or kickstartered it. In fact they already had plastic gangers from the previous game. Making plastic forces would have dropped down the cost of the box set considerably. As it is, it's like $100 for 18 metal figures. That's woeful value.

 judgedoug wrote:
Matt had mentioned the possibility of multipart plastics for Apocalypse War on the Mongoose forums at some point.

I'll be honest, Mongoose says a lot of things, and their track record on stuff is sketchy at best. Others would say even worse about them. Take a trip through TMP sometime.

Currently their MO seems to be to acquire a license, hype it up as being the second coming of gaming, fart out a ton of shoddy product, flog it all before the suckers get wise to it, and then drop it completely when the license goes tits up.

I gotta be honest, I'm not too eager to sign up for this roller coaster again.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

I have played this game quite a bit and its got an awful lot of fun elements and plays extremely quickly.

We normally manage 3-4 games in a couple of hours with reasonable numbers on each side - 6-8 models.

There is alot of character to the gangs - from the Fattie horde to Judge Cal and his meat eating Kleggs............both in terms of how they play and the models available - my fav is my Appoclaypse War Resistance unit - even if they do tend to run out of ammo at the worst moment...............

MGP can be a bit hit and miss with QC on their work but I have the rulebook and its lovely - plus their figures were pretty cool and very reflective of the source material. Warlord seem to be a good partner to have brought on board to get stuff done properly.

Lastly its incredably easy to customise and adapt for new ideas/settings - I knocked up some 40K rules very quickly that I am looking forward to trying........................