Mongoose Continues Kickstarter Success With Rogue Trooper
February 7, 2013 by brennon
It looks like Mongoose Publishing, feeling the blood lust at their successful Judge Dredd Kickstarter, are not done with the fund raising. Coming this Friday will be their Kickstarter for the Rogue Trooper Miniatures Game...
Rogue Trooper is a comic strip from the 2000AD series following the Genetic Infantryman (G.I) Rogue in his various missions. This genetically engineered super soldier is one of those old school favourites and I can imagine a few of you are getting excited already by the prospect of a miniatures game.
As a taster Mongoose have released their early rules which you can read HERE.
Does this sound like the Kickstarter for you?
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releasing the rules early like this is a pretty good move since it gives people time to read through them and see if it’s something they like or not. Nice one Mongoose 🙂
now is it going to be ‘rogue trooper’ or ‘friday’ thats what I wanna know (please be Friday)
Can’t it be both 🙂
I know I’d totally mark out for Rogue, Friday, Venus, Helm, Gunnar, Bagman, Top & Eightball in mini form (hell, I’d even take a Tor Cyan!)
Yeah Friday all the way! Rogue was too straight-laced to be cool, Friday was the man 😀 Rogue is gonna be the subject though, just look at what gun he has up there.
I’m a big fan (and supporter) of the Dredd Kickstarter Mongoose put on a few months ago. I have been really impressed with what they are producing (I have an assembled Sentenoid assault robot on my desk as I write this).
Very tempting…
I was fortunate enough to see all of the Dredd minis painted up at MiniCon last month and they looked amazing. I’ll definitely be backing this project and every other 2000AD-inspired project they decide to start up in the hopes of a Durham Red mini or two!
Mongoose must be invading my dreams and making them into wargaming reality! Read 200AD since a nipper and muchos excited for a Rogue Trooper game. Please make the sculpt hardcore and gritty though and not overly pulp like some of the DREDD ones. It suits DREDD to have that style of course but i would love to see something much more dystopic and also SCALABLE for Rouge Trooper. The thought of a 6 by 4 trench battle board with Southers V’s Norts makes my debit card sing!
Yet another kickstarter!!! How many more??
Kickstarter has been a total turn off for me lately, every company who has an idea starts a Kickstarter.
When will it end?
I can’t support any more kickstarter projects either. Also, the Mongoose folks have been doing a good job getting all the stuff out to the backers for their Judge Dredd campaign, but not everything. It’d be nice to see all of that stuff in people’s hands before another project ramps up.
While I fully understand cries of “not another kickstarter”, when it comes to this kind of thing it is more of an advanced pre-order on the part of those interested. You put your name down in advance for a box of minis, and if enough people put their names down they get made. The rules are there for you to see, some of the greens are already done, Mongoose have shown what they can do and that they can be trusted not to do a runner with the money and their goal is very modest compared to some current wargaming… Read more »
Agreed – it seems to have become a less risky way for a business to develop a new product coupled with an incentivised pre-order system.. and I don’t see that as a bad thing, even if most project fail to deliver on community / backer involvement in the process. I’m sure Reaper’s Bones project would have gone ahead even without the KS project, but how many smaller businesses would have been able to secure funding for their ideas and how long would it have taken to being them to market without as KS drive? The only thing I hate about… Read more »
25£ for 8 minis!?!? Those are ForgeWorld-grade prices…
Nah it’s still cheaper than Forgeworld.
It is also cheaper than Finecast (5 28mm elves for £20.50) and only pennies more expensive than GW plastics (10 greatswords/bestigor for £25.50).
Far far cheaper if you look at “character figures” from GW or Forgeworld regardless of medium.
To be honest £3 for a non-historical 28mm figure is actually just about the average price for small manufacturers.
Also with this game you only need those 8 models to play.
Ok, I was exagerating… Still the logic is the same: they are really overpriced compared to better looking and more complex minis, and I think it is the opposite of the concept of Kickstarter.
The reason I am so disppointed is that I am a big fan of Rogue Trooper, and I expected a lot more.
I checked: 1 FW death corp infantryman = 3.7£ per model; 1 rogue trooper 4£; 1 southern/northern infantyman 3.2£ per model… WOW!
True. But then if you compare it with a starter for skirmish level game like Malifaux or Infinity where you pay ~£25 for 6 miniatures, it’s still not a bad price. But I suppose we would need to see the sculpts for the North and South forces to really get a sense of the value 😉