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Post by Ham Bone on Feb 22, 2005 8:07:00 GMT -5
Thormagni, I think you mentioned a lunch time game. I'm free tomorrow or Thursday if you're interested
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 8:34:09 GMT -5
Thursday sounds good to me! Say around noon? That will give me time to put an arena together. So far, I have only picked up the Division 5 cars for the new set, but if they are fun to play I will probably try to get the Division 10 and 15 sets eventually.
The only bad thing about the new sets is that the game petered out before they got around to releasing the Vehicle Design book. So it would require some rules kludging to make a new car from scratch, maybe throwing together some rules from the old set, or some such.
However, in Division 5 alone they released around 25 base cars, each with at least one variant version and many with a Division 5 Pro version. So you could have 50 to 75 cars to play with before even moving out of the Division 5 class.
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 8:35:32 GMT -5
For those who have no idea what we are talking about, Car Wars is a Steve Jackson game set in an ugly future sort of like Mad Max or the Road Warrior. Basically you have cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc. that are armed to the teeth and you go around blowing each other up. It has some roleplaying game elements if you choose to use them, but basically it is a tactics game with mini paper car tokens and road pieces. The cars are divided up by how much money you spend in game to put them together. Division 5 is $5,000, Division 10 is $10,000, etc. The Division 5 cars are the cheapest and simplest, usually with one or two major weapons and limited armor, so the game should go pretty fast. By the same token, a Division 15 car should look like a heavily armored porcupine with rocket launchers, turrets and tank guns sticking out all over.  |
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 8:51:04 GMT -5
The newest version of the game uses a 1:60 scale (1 inch = 5 feet), so playing it takes up an entire tabletop, where the old game used a 1:180 scale (1 inch = 15 feet), so they were tiny. The good part about the new scale is that Matchbox cars are 1:64 scale, so without any real scale difficulties you could use actual Matchbox or Hot Wheels cars to blow the hell out of each other.
The bad part about the new game is that they tried to piggyback on the collectible game craze to some extent. For $6 you get two cars and a set of starter rules. So, buying all the starter sets for almost $60 you end up with a handful of cars and a ton of starter rules. It didn't do very well, so they scrapped the line before coming out with the Vehicle Design book, so you can't even make your own cars.
But it looks fun for what it is.
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Post by Fyrestryke on Feb 22, 2005 9:01:07 GMT -5
I've got a whole collection of hotwheels/matchbox that would fit that theme nicely. ;D
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 9:11:00 GMT -5
I've got a whole collection of hotwheels/matchbox that would fit that theme nicely. ;D My son has a bunch of them too. Bring em over, we could blow lots of stuff up |
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Post by Master Lucid on Feb 22, 2005 9:31:47 GMT -5
It definitely sounds like fun. Can't play through the week, but maybe during an Arenaian break we could race once!
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 9:33:23 GMT -5
It definitely sounds like fun. Can't play through the week, but maybe during an Arenaian break we could race once! I'll bring the toolbox of death on Saturday then |
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Post by Ham Bone on Feb 22, 2005 9:36:16 GMT -5
Thursday @ noon works fine for me. What's your corner again?
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Post by Fyrestryke on Feb 22, 2005 10:00:10 GMT -5
Well, I'll bring a few. I've got 8 cases (48) of hotwheels and another tub of them still on cards.  They're all sorted, so finding relevant Car Wars hotwheels will be easy. I have one case that's almost all military vehicles. Mind you, I use hotwheels as a generic term meaning hotwheels/matchbox/other stuff.  |
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Post by Stupid Noob on Feb 22, 2005 10:10:58 GMT -5
So, are we going to blow them up with firecrackers? That'd be great!
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Post by Thormagni on Feb 22, 2005 10:26:56 GMT -5
Thursday @ noon works fine for me. What's your corner again? 12th and Lafayette... And Fyre, don't worry about bringing cars, we can either use the counters or pillage my son's for the first game. Geez, it sounds like you have a lot of them. |
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Post by Fyrestryke on Feb 22, 2005 10:37:37 GMT -5
Yeah, I've got almost every car I've ever owned. Most of them are from when I was a kid and some were from my brother's collection. I can't make it on Thursday, but I'll bring my cars sometime and show ya what I've got. |
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Post by Ham Bone on Feb 24, 2005 13:47:50 GMT -5
Thormagni "The Arsonist" Clark folds under a left side barrage from Robert "The Rocket" Probst.
Could have gone the other way though if the dice had been friendlier -- Thormagni missed 2 easy rolls.
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Post by Stupid Noob on Feb 24, 2005 13:54:32 GMT -5
'Twould be nice to play car wars b4 the game starts on Saturday.
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