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Re: Bad Idea For A Duel Quote: Originally Posted by 43Supporter This one might be doable for a "multiple-blind" event, but for a typical CW game, less so. ( Besides, once the player sees what weapons he has available to him, he should be able to work out which trailer he's in.) :) But for this application: No, the RC sender is in the trailer. Think "chariot racing taken to ridiculous extremes". :) He...

Re: Pedestrian duels I finally ran a $5k/$5 vehicle vs. pedestrian duel using the 5th edition rules with a friend. In case you are unfamiliar, this eliminates burst and area effects for vehicular weapons as well as many useful devices that could help the pedestrians. Rules were 5e only, no dropped weapons. Only ped gear allowed was what's found in the 5th edition rulebook on p13. On page 2 of this long thread, you will find the 8 peds...

Re: Bad Idea For A Duel Quote: Originally Posted by Hemlock He knows which trailer he's in ... but he doesn't know which tractor will respond to his RC sending set. For added 'fun' require that all tractor vehicles be ~unarmed~ so he can't figure it out by noting which weapons he can fire. Actually, the screens showing him how much ammo and what type will give that info away; also, he'll figure it out as soon as...

Re: Pedestrian duels Thanks for the testing and report. Sounds like if the peds had any kind of cover at the start, it might have been an easy win for them (would have mad ramming harder). __________________ A generous and sadistic GM, Brandon Cope http://copeab.tripod.com

Hey now, there you go finding real-world examples to apply to CW! I wasn't going to go there, but yeah - had a son-in-law driving in those convoys.

Car Wars counters in 3D In honor of Avatar, I've decided to make 3D versions of all the 5e counters (plus acid clouds and ice). To put it mildly, this is going to be a long, involved task becuz I need a lot of counters. Of course, there is one fundamental problem when you go 3D with the dropped weapon counters. What do you do when a 3D car attempts to pass through a 3D smoke cloud? I came up with a solution to this problem - magnets....

Re: 2009 Car Wars was Good! Dug out my Car Wars stash and discovered it was quite large. Filled out with lots of on-line purchases. Actually found some road atlas and survival guides in dead tree edition. Managed to get one of them for $7 including shipping to the UK. Started two e-mail based games, one completed a simple arena duel in only 2 months (eek). The other with a wider player base is still running. Started re-reading everything and...

The rules and a couple of suppliments came out online. We populated Boardgame Geek a bit with Car Wars info and session reports. A great new vehicle design sheet was designed. I must have played 10 face to face games. Finished my base set of miniature cars and counters. Also made some arena buildings and landed a great game mat. Hooked up for a day of gaming with two of the biggest Car Wars fanatics on this planet. That one goes down as my...

I love the old blank map sheets; they're worth tracking down a set as the Arena Book and L'Outrance are geared to them... as are several ADQ articles. The multi-map extravaganzas are inspiring, but not well suited to Amateur Night games. A single map sheet can be too big depending on the obstacles and vehicle designs. Amateur Night is more like cock fighting than dueling. My own crude maps play well enough, but Earlburt is the...

Re: Color Counters SWAT HQ - AVRO Archive - Resources - Counters http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/avro/counters.html __________________ Michael P. Owen / owenmp@hotmail.com Seattle WA Autoduel Team (Car Wars, GURPS, Formula Dé) Car Wars Internet Newsletter Editor