Judge Dredd Coming to Kickstarter September 13th

Hi Binky, thanks for coming back to me.

I get the Hamilton and Massa thing (good race yesterday, if you are a Hamilton fan), but I put it to you (!) that this is not the case.

We have been going for more than 11 years now, and we have been talking about, what, three games – two of which were licensed and thus have their own factors, the other pre-painted and eye-wateringly expensive in itself.

Weigh against that, Victory at Sea is still going on (and about to get its own range of minis), Judge Dredd is really a continuation of Gangs of MC-1 (in fact, we have had the JD licence for about ten years now), Traveller we took a 10 year licence on and have every intention of continuing it after that point. Even when RQ had a wobble, we found another way to carry on producing and supporting it.

We do have long-running games in our catalogue though, I grant you, it has been the really high profile ones that may have grabbed your attention in the minis market.

That said, we have modified our approach. We have a very different agreement with 2000AD than we did with, say Warner Brothers, and Victory at Sea is, of course, owned by us completely so there is no heavy licence payments. 'Big' licences are still possible, but we will approach them in a different way with no presumption (and creating no expectation) that they will always be there.