| cloudcaptain | 05 Apr 2017 11:12 a.m. PST |
Saw this up for pre-order. Release date says October. Promises campaign rules too. link |
| Vigilant | 05 Apr 2017 11:52 a.m. PST |
Fingers crossed that this will be a good set. |
| Puddinhead Johnson | 05 Apr 2017 11:59 a.m. PST |
The rules will be based on Knight Rampant by Daniel Mersey. Like every other set of rules published by Osprey. 😉 |
| Dynaman8789 | 05 Apr 2017 12:43 p.m. PST |
Evil Stevie already has a new Car Wars in the works. |
| boy wundyr x | 05 Apr 2017 2:38 p.m. PST |
Be interesting to see if miniatures come out to support this, and in what scale. |
| darthfozzywig | 05 Apr 2017 3:44 p.m. PST |
Car Wars is better in memory than in reality. A new version – or similarly-themed game – can really improve on 1/10th of a second turns that take several minutes to resolve. You could spend a couple of hours resolving a combat that lasts less than a second in "real time". |
| Ed the Two Hour Wargames guy | 05 Apr 2017 4:36 p.m. PST |
darthfozzywig – Totally understand what you're talking about. Try Machinas, the author, Carmen, really did a good job in keeping everyone involved all the time. Here are some Bat Reps. link
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| ordinarybass | 05 Apr 2017 5:12 p.m. PST |
Cool.
I'm pretty well set for post apoc and I like Nuclear Renaissance's vehicle rules. Still, I'll probably buy it. I like these Osprey rulesets. |
| darthfozzywig | 05 Apr 2017 5:48 p.m. PST |
Thanks, Ed, I'll check it out. |
| Grimmnar | 05 Apr 2017 9:16 p.m. PST |
There are a crapton of auto combat games out there right now, new and old.
Got a list around here some where. Grimm |
| Ney Ney | 06 Apr 2017 2:13 a.m. PST |
Interesting…. Let us wait and see if this falls into the Good Osprey camp or the Bad Osprey camp! Anyone know about the author's work? Has he done other rules? |
| Whitestreak | 06 Apr 2017 10:25 a.m. PST |
Steve Jackson Games is working on an updated version of Car Wars. They're going for fast and fun as their design criteria. The original version, which I loved when it came out, became bloated to a Star Fleet Battles level, though. When one minute of game time takes two hours to play, something is wrong. |
| Dynaman8789 | 06 Apr 2017 4:16 p.m. PST |
> When one minute of game time takes two hours to play, something is wrong. Each turn was one second. I was never in a game that lasted for a whole minute of game time. |
| IronMike | 10 Apr 2017 1:08 p.m. PST |
I have yet to be disappointed with any game I've bought from Osprey, so I'm looking forward to this one… |
paints a surplus combat car.
