We looked at the Rogue Trooper set just over 14 years ago here at small scale world, but Games Workshop have returned to the output of the classic comic 2000AD several times, more commonly visiting the Judge Dredd franchise, so we'd better visit it here!
I'm monging-it at home with a lurgy this week and have managed to get some of the image-folder disaster sorted; this turned-up, and as it's been in the queue for a year or two, so I thought it could be cleared!
Most of the sets/modules seem to be paper/counter-based, with the possibility of purchasing lead/whitemetal figurines from the Nottingham Mafia as after-market stuff to enhance the experience, and when you search for this on feeBay, make sure you get this artwork, or you'll be getting one of the others!
Because . . . unlike those other sets . . . this set contains almost perfect OO/1:76th/23mm figures of Judge Dredd, as playing pieces, they aren't the world's best renditions/depictions of the eponymous hero (actually quite a fascistic, over-patriotic, violent, anti-hero!); his 'Lawgiver' sidearm is more of a needle-gun, but they do come in six colours!
Compared here with an Airfix pilot, you can see that the Dredd figures are perfect for rounding up a bunch of Preiser or Noch civilians, whether they've done anything wrong or not; everyone's a 'Perp' if you investigate deep enough!
The accompanying paperwork had lots of references to the artwork and tropes of the comic-strip, which at the time had become so ubiquitous it was running daily in a National newspaper! I vaguely remember a story-line involving Umpty Candy, adulterated and leading to mayhem of one kind or another - usually mass-hysteria in the accommodation 'Blocks' of the Mega-City.
An advert from Toy Trader in 1982 drumming-up business for the venture.
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