Was looking to set an adventure in North Africa - probably borrowing from George Alec Effinger's wonderful When Gravity Fails and its sequels- can anyone tell me if this setting has ever featured in the comics? Aside from Luxor / Egypt that is. I read a reference to New-Cathage somewhere but it's not on the map- Casablanca seems to have been moved (by Mongoose?) into the middle of the continent rather than on the west coast..... There's another city on the north coast marked but I can't really decide what it's called from the map...?
World map in Judge Dredd book??
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havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
The two Pan-African Judges stories from the Megazine drops in a lot of African locations and second story has part of it set in lands corresponding to Eygpt.
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
Just got JD rule book. Map doesn't have the great sink navigation hazzard. Also, if I recollect correctly, the Anderson story where Orlock ids sprung from an Iso-cube had a frame where East meg 3 was featured on a wall map, though this location was never featured in another story, though The Apocalypse war story had EM1 refer to Mega Cities I think.
JRW
JRW
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
Souther Sink is both mapped and referred to in 'Shamballa ' Anderson story.
East Meg 3 is on a map shown in Prog 531. Sadly EM3 seems to comprise most of SE Asia. The city is never referred to again. If it was deemed canon I would be tempted to centre it on Vladivostok.
East Meg 3 is on a map shown in Prog 531. Sadly EM3 seems to comprise most of SE Asia. The city is never referred to again. If it was deemed canon I would be tempted to centre it on Vladivostok.
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
Happy to contribute towards a list , though am busy at moment.
I noticed the text of the JD rules confused Vagas with Texas City.
I noticed the text of the JD rules confused Vagas with Texas City.
havercake lad said:
Yeah I'm doing a fine combing right now since Fordy asked for a PM of all the "glitches" and possible errata. My only problem is I've been on 16 hour shifts since I got back from Gencon, and the more I read through the book, the more I just want to RUN the game.
~Rex
dreamingbadger
Mongoose
djd said:
Just as a thought... Titan is around the wrong planet
we just happen to know the backstory for Titan, maybe we don't know the backstory for why Casablanca is where it is on the map?havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
The mysterious relocation of Titan is referred to on page 14 of the old 'Judgement Day' scenario by Marcus Rowland. A 'Mega-City Encylodia' artical mentions that this occured in 2023 and was probably the result of a Sino-Soviet experiment on hyperdrive technology that backfired creating a blackhole that destroyed the research station and stripped Titan of a lot of its atmosphere.
dreamingbadger
Mongoose
I think it was explained an Prog as well, i forget which , but the point is, the fact that things are not the same in Dreddverse.. maybe the former location of Casablanca was destroyed and the new city was founded by a Humphery Bogart fanhavercake lad said:
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
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Seems logical there. I wonder if it would be feasible to scrape together all the Canon cities per say. Start the List with Mega City One them move forward, then, attach a Prog # to each Canon city.
~Rex[/quote]
Lima city is setting for 'The Sugar Beat' progs 873 to 878.
Polluted coastal water in this area is repeatedly referred to as 'The Black Pacific'
Judge White
Archives Div
Seems logical there. I wonder if it would be feasible to scrape together all the Canon cities per say. Start the List with Mega City One them move forward, then, attach a Prog # to each Canon city.
~Rex[/quote]
Lima city is setting for 'The Sugar Beat' progs 873 to 878.
Polluted coastal water in this area is repeatedly referred to as 'The Black Pacific'
Judge White
Archives Div
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
Just leafed through the Pan African Judges stories in the Judge Dredd Megazine. I assume the devastated sub-saharan cities which lose their adult populations in the second story set in 2117 are all repopulated.havercake lad said:
A pyramid still stands at Giza. ( JDM 10.3 )
Siwa includes headquarters of the Pan African Committee ( Intro JDM 6.3 )
Cairo is referred to in a flashback ( JDM 46.2 )
Kaduna, ( a P.A.C. city located north of the Niger ) loses its adult population in 2117 estimated at 80,000. ( JDM 7.3 )
Chad and Tebesti are amongst Pan African cities devasted by African Gods in 2117. ( JDM 9.3)
Ife is a citadelled city that also suffers in 2117. ( JDM 8.3 )
[i]The Simba territories are independant of the P.A.C. Their Judges are possibly the ones illustrated in art work in a Judge Dredd Special No.1 1988 and also the conerence in Hondo during the sabbat crisis.[/i]
An independant communist state of Freedonia some 50k by 50k exists in part of the Guinea Territories outside the P.A.C. jurisdiction with a capital called Castrovia. ( JDM 45 & 46.2 ).
havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
'Mouthful of Dust' a Devlin Waugh story is set in the Middle East approx 2122AD in JDM #71-72 vol 3.
Mecca is visited, where the caliph Kareem ibn Asser lives.
Ubar is a city lost for over two centuries, and reputedly the source of the Fountain of Life
The Rub al Khali desert aka The Empty Quarter is a 3000,000 square mile haunted and radioactive desert. Reputedly where Ubar can be found.
An acquaintence of Waugh's has once visited Baghdad , but how far in the past is unspecified.
Mecca is visited, where the caliph Kareem ibn Asser lives.
Ubar is a city lost for over two centuries, and reputedly the source of the Fountain of Life
The Rub al Khali desert aka The Empty Quarter is a 3000,000 square mile haunted and radioactive desert. Reputedly where Ubar can be found.
An acquaintence of Waugh's has once visited Baghdad , but how far in the past is unspecified.
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