Friday, November 1, 2024

Miniatures Finished: Blood in the Machine

After a while and quite a few games, I have finally finished 19 Renegade Robots for Judge Dredd Miniatures Game. As I tend to enjoy doing, I've pulled the gang from a variety of sources and, to keep it in a very 2000AD style, I've opted for a variety of colours rather than a unifying scheme.

The complete gang, named after the Brian Merchant book, just in case anyone was wondering how I was going to work a leftist reference into another miniatures game. I can't imagine that I'll ever have a reason to put all of them on the table at once, but I like having options, you never know where a campaign is going to end up.


My demolition droids, including my usual Gang Leader, Haro-2-Goodbye. Haro is Necromunda Ambot legs and arms on a Gunpla Haro (1/12 scale) and the other is a Pacific Rim Heroclix repaint.


Combat Droids, converted Eureka Miniatures in the front, with Mantic behind, flanked by two D&D Warforged Monks. I like the idea of kung-fu robots. And the JDMG rules actually let me make that kind of character, so that's fun.


Junkers, both converted D&D miniatures. If I expand the gang, I would likely get more Junkers, as they're cheap fodder that are also surprisingly tough on the table.


Servo Droids form the backbone of the gang, being fairly affordable and almost as tough as a Judge. Mine are mostly converted Star Wars Legion models, excepting the back left, which is another D&D blind box find. I could also maybe do with another couple of these, but I'm waiting to find the right models. 


Minibots, the 'cheap filler' for the gang that can take barely any equipment and tend to get taken out fast in a fight. The other cheap option is Robodogs, which I have a few of through Necromunda, but am yet to figure out how to make the best use of them in the game.

I've also been working on some terrain specifically for JDMG, as can be seen with the garbage pile above. The tower is for Necromunda, but might work for Dredd as well, we'll see how it all pans out. I'm trying to let this project happen organically, rather than building a specific army or table like I do now; go a bit oldschool I guess, with just a collection of stuff that works together. We'll see how it goes, I think my next focus will be my Street Gang.