Block Mania is a Judge Dredd story that appeared in the British comic 2000 AD. Judge Dredd, drawn by Mike McMahon for the first ever story Judge Joseph Joe Dredd is the main character of the longest-running strip in the British comic 2000 AD, having been featured there since its second issue in 1977. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ...
The story starts off with what seems to be a typical Block War, as seen in the previous Dredd stories. However, it soon becomes apparent that it isn't an isolated incident, but that conflagrations are breaking out amongst hundreds of City Blocks in Mega-City One. Eventually the conflict spread city-wide, where millions of citizens are involved in fighting. The last episode of the series, far from resolving any disputes, leads into another story - Apocalypse War. A city block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. ... Mega-City One is a huge fictional city covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ... ...
In 1987 Games Workshop produced a board game based on the above story, and other stories that had featured Block Wars. The game simulated a Block War between two City Blocks, with each player trying to do unto the other player's Block before it was done unto them. Games Workshop is a British game production and retailing company. ... A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. ...
A supplement, Mega Mania was released, which increased the number of Blocks (and thus players) to four.
Because each city block is an independent unit in its own right, a sense of patriotism is often attached to them by their residents and wars can break out with "enemy Blocks" over the most trivial matters.
Indeed the madness, which came to be known as "BlockMania", was caused by a Sov drug which had been put into Mega-City One's water supply by Orlock, the East-Meg One assassin.
As the Western Judges were about to find out, BlockMania was just a prelude to the Apocalypse War, as the Sovs began their nuclear assualt on a weakened Mega-City One.
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