Mega-Mania is a board game published by Games Workshop in 1987 as an expansion for Block Mania based on the Judge Dredd comics.
Mega-Mania is a board game published by Games Workshop in 1987 as an expansion for Block Mania based on the Judge Dredd comics.
Based on the two-player game Block Mania set in the Judge Dredd universe, Mega-Mania is an expansion that includes two additional blocks, allowing play for up to four players. [1] In the game, residents of different city blocks must cause as much harm as possible to each other before the Judges arrive to restore order. [1] Weapons include spray paint, guns, flamethrowers and heavy lasers. [2] The winner is the player whose block is the least damaged at the end of the game. [3]
Games Workshop published the two-player combat game Block Mania in 1987. This was quickly followed the same year by the expansion Mega-Mania, designed by Richard Halliwell, with artwork by Dave Andrews, Chris Baker, Colin Dixon, and Brett Ewins. [2] A further expansion with more rules and tiles titled Block Mania: Happy Hour was published in the October 1987 edition of White Dwarf. [2]
Richard Halliwell reviewed Mega-Mania for White Dwarf #93, and stated that "Mega-mania [...] points up the fascinating possibilities of the endgame as the players gang up against the overall leader and possible victory can change hands several times over quite a small number of turns." [1]
In the December 1987 edition of Casus Belli (Issue #42), Pierre Lejoeux liked Block Mania but highly recommended the Mega-Mania expansion, reasoning that "If a war between two blocks is already so destructive, how much more between four blocks?" [3]
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