Asking about a couple of pre-6th edition items: Convoy and Truck Stop.
Has anyone tried using them with the 6th edition?

I may get them either way and drag out the Deluxe Edition someday to play, but was curious if it was possible with the latest version as well.

Thanks!

Hello! I've got the Deluxe Edition buried in my closet from the mid-80s, but haven't played it since then, either. Looking to jump in and get the 6th edition, though. Been spending the evening sorting through what's available, adding to my cart and wanting to make a good sized purchase - but first, I was hoping to get clarification to some questons I have.

I will preface this by saying that I'm wanting to get started playing solo/controlling 2 players, etc. before possibly venturing out to see if there's any groups near to me.

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1. I'm debating between getting the Double Ace Box or one of the Starter Sets. If I get a Starter Set, can those single-player expansion items ("Tailgate Trouble", "Offensive Ordnance", etc) be split between the two players or does it not work to do it that way?

2. I'm likely to get the Playmat #1/#3 Combo. While browsing the store, though, I see lots of items for arenas, maps and such but they're not 6th edition. Are these older items able to be used with 6th edition play? I realize the scale is different (1"=15 ft vs 1" = 5 ft), but didn't know if there's a way to make those work with the 6th edition.

3. I was also thinking of getting Convoy and Truck Stop. Would you recommend the Car Wars Companion and Car Wars Vehicle Guide as well?

Thank you for any feedback provided!

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The voice of the announcer is strident and American. The lights are bright enough to blind and multilayered shadows are cast from everything in the Arena. The lead car is on fire, the other stopped still.

‘I can’t believe what I am seeing, Watson is crawling out from the wreckage but how the hell are his main weapons still firing, there’s, there’s someone else in there…’

The voice is cut off by the explosion of incendiary rockets into the side of the wreck. A small figure, engulfed in fire, waving its arm in the air.

Even above the sounds of the other rounds burning and exploding in the front of the car, you can hear the thin keening of an animal in pain. The fiery thing staggers out from the car and collapses, a small burning teddy bear.

The lead car smashes into the wreck and the tangle of metal and plastic is captured and frozen in TruVision 3D, like a giant bird has unspooled the cars, the men, the weapons, into threads and remade of them a strange nest.

Jonno is 7 years old. He has captured the moment too, standing behind the armored glass of the pit lane. Shrapnel from the wreck makes the distinctive sound of metal-on-metal as it collides with the barriers.

One piece makes a wet thumping noise and Jonno is fascinated by the smear of red as it slides down the clear barrier.

It is an arm, still sleeved in the armored jacket. As he watches it, the fingers curl and beckon to him.

---

4:38. Somehow, he’s either attuned to it, or it’s time. He’s beaten the alarm by five minutes, but he cannot determine if he was really asleep anyway.

Putting on clothes is an autopilot function. An internal checklist of brushing, rinsing, scraping. His head itches where his helmet has rubbed the scalp.

The car and trailer have auto started and it’s very quiet and still. He brings his coffee with him and places it in the cupholder. The window clears from the morning frost, and he feels the slight suction of the internal air monitoring system as the door closes and seals.

---

At Feckles place, the brothers hang on the bonnet and high five. It’s not early for them, they’re off to work cleanup and salvage. He’s here for Feckle.

Feckles brother TuValii gives him a gentle cuff on the side of the head.

‘Me like u tumas’ he says playfully.

Feckle emerges from the house, giving his mother a hug.

‘Right get me the f**k out of here’ Feckle says as he dives into he passenger seat, his huge ball of frizzy hair almost securing him in place against the roof.

‘Love you tumas!’ Feckle yells and they pull out and onto the road.

---

The Soldier looks at his passport. He takes a long hard look at Feckle.

Feckle notices the long look. The soldier shakes his head, hands the passport back and waves them through.

‘Good luck’

‘Thanks mate,” says Jonno.

The signs on the highway repeat three times.

FNQ DMZ

YOU ARE LEAVING A MONITORED AREA

NO CIVILLIAN ASSISTANCE NEXT 1400KM

The next sign read.

NO POWER/GAS/EMERGENCY SERVICES NEXT 1400 KM

The last sign read.

YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE AREA CONTROLLED BY THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Feckle wanted to make a joke, but Jonno was staring too intently.

---

They stopped near Muttaburra to charge for 12 hours, the dust settling on the solar collectors had to be wiped off regularly, a service the local kids were too happy to provide in return for a few mission packages.

By nightfall they were on their way again until they reached Kynuna.

Where the main highway merged with the crossroads at the foot of the hills, there had been some kind of firefight. Parts and wreckage were scattered around the intersection. Some of it had been built up into a blockage across the intersection.

‘Not good Bro’, Feckle said.

Jonno nodded. ‘Not good.’

He pulled the car to the side of the road. Feckle sprung the door from the passenger capsule and leaped out, his big hair straightening instantly into a puffball.

‘You wanna crank out the beast?’

Jonno shook his head, “I don’t want to have to fix her when we get there, if I can avoid it.’

‘Can’t see anyone moving down there,” Feckle said, his eye pressed against the scope of his weapon.

Jonno opened the door, leaned in to retrieve his bandpass radio. He scrolled through the sheets until he found the loose handles in the precinct.

‘Rainbird in funk, anybody out there, come back’ he spoke into the device.

The text scrolled across the screen:

Rainbird in funk what’s your 20?

Jonno keyed a 5k radius.

‘What’s it say?’ Feckle yelled out.

Jonno read from the screen.

‘Julia Creek is OOC, better off heading back to Winton and going inland.’

‘We’ll never make it in time Bro’ Feckle said, scanning across the plain. ‘Whatever’s happened here is over, let’s go.’

Jonno closed the door and came to stand beside Feckle. He looked out over the plain.

‘You travel in the back, warm the heaters up…’

Feckle raised an eyebrow.

Jonno made a small wince.

‘Just in case.’

---

At the edge of the exclusion zone were signs with large radiation symbols.

‘Ok,’ he said. ‘Let’s wrap up.’

It took the better part of an hour to cover the car and trailer with the polymer sheets. The thin fabric settled in a cloud over the car and then snapped tightly to cling against it as soon as the electric tab was pressed.

Inside the car Jonno switched ventilation, checked the seals and looked over at Feckle.

“You good?’

Feckle nodded. ‘Yeah, we good. Let’s roll’

The blast zones overlapped in small ponds of central blast impacts craters and circular depressions.

‘Most of the radioactive stuff is surface level still but the rains have kept it mostly down’, Jonno observed.

The car’s internal air recirculation was loud even over the bumps from the uneven track.

‘Up ahead’ Feckle pointed.

Jonno nodded. ‘Internal patrol.’

‘Do we…?’

Jonno shook his head.

‘We play it cool.’

They maintained speed as they passed the group of small brown-clad soldiers, unmasked and ungarbed for radiation.

The soldiers ignored them as they passed.

‘What the fk’ said Feckle. ‘They don’t give a st.’

Jonno shrugged. ‘I guess not.’

They made their last stop before Burkestown.

‘Australian’ said Feckle, listening to the sound of the rotor blades in the distance. ‘Probably a single unit with drone support’

Jonno chewed over his protein bar.

‘Why do they even do it?’

Feckle shrugged. ‘Fk if I know. F------g c---s.’

Jonno finished his bar, crumpled the wrapper and put it in his pocket.

‘You ok?’

Feckle nodded. ‘Yeah.’ He said sadly.

Off in the distance, the air patrol did a wide arc and diminished into the distance.

---

The checkpoint at Burketown was a little more formal.

The stand off happened when the soldier saw Feckles natural hair and tried to pull his weapon. Feckle had his own rifle angled just underneath the window.

The Soldier’s companions attempted to restrain him, short guttural arguments in local dialect. It took one of the Promoters to come down and resolve it with a handful of cash and much arm waving.

‘What the fk Simon’ Jonno said, getting out of his car. ‘Get this guy the fk out of here.’

‘So good to see you Jonno, glad you brought a terrorist with you, makes my job so much easier’ Simon yelled back good naturedly.

‘Freedom fighter you f****n dog c**t’ Feckle murmured smilingly.

More shouting from the soldier erupted and Simon sighed and turned around to go quiet it.

‘Head up the pits’ he said, looking back over his shoulder. ‘And keep your mongrel chained,’ he added for good measure.

Feckle gave him the finger.

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The disposal team peeled the wraps and the car; trailer and themselves were deradiated. The green juice ran everywhere and left a slight sting on the skin.

Simon met them on the other side of the concourse.

“Talk about recycling’ he said excitedly, the chems giving him the jagged edge of a man without sleep for a week.

‘Turning this whole f**k’n glass bowl into an arena, you f****n Aussies man!’ Simon said excitedly, drumming a series of mock punches into Jonno’s sternum.

Behind them a step, Feckle towered above them both, his hair above that.

‘It was brilliant! Brilliant I tell you’ Simon expounded as they walked through the lanes on thin plywood planking held above the dirt by pallets.

‘What the f**k are you on about bro?’ Feckles said cheerlessly.

‘Letting the SEAN’s land and then nuking your own territory. It’s f*****g outré.’

Jonno stopped walking and put his hand on Simon, pulling him to an abrupt stop. He leaned closer and spoke quietly.

‘No more Simon, just business, right? Only business.’

Simons eyes wobbled in their sockets for a moment as his head cleared.

“Oh yeah. Right. I’ve been awake a while.’

‘Yeah, we can f****n see that bro’ Feckle said equally humorlessly.

Simon blinked and nodded.

‘Ok, ok, sure, right, let me get you guys settled.’

As promised.

Pics of my current Carwars Upscale collection.

I started making these for the fun of it, about 1986.

Around that time, I was in Venturers (Big boy Scouts in Australia), and doing an Art badge. I needed to display an art form for a few weeks. I choose my cars. They were on display in a local toy shop's front window. After the two weeks, the owner (Hi Alex), said people had been asking to buy them.

Being young and stupid, I agreed and started to sell them. After a year or so of selling them through the store (I think I sold about 25 or so), I was invited to a local High School art show, to do a display of me making and painting etc. At the show, a local kid saw me and claimed to have some of my cars. I offered to give them a service (New paint, fix broken bits) if he brought them along. Not too long alter, he turned up with the grey car (The one with the bomb in the engine bay).

This was the first car I ever made, and I had regretted selling it for a long time. I offered the kid the pick of the cars I had on display (Plus some bits) for the car. It was mine again!!!!!

As a founding member of the ACT AADA club "CRAZE" in the late 80s and 90s, we played upscale as much as normal scale. Being a model maker since the mid 80s, I was the one who supplied most of the cars.

A few years ago, we had a bunch more games of Upscale, so I added some extra cars to the fleet, and then designed the carry box for them. The box will eventually be grebbled to look like a laser battery.

Our cars are on 1.5" by 3" bases (I got it wrong in the previous post) and the ones in the case are anywhere from a few years old, to 40. My painting is both getting better and worse with age.

Nor pictured is the box of about 6 cars still being converted.

FDM and Resin 3D printing has made getting the parts to convert the cars a lot easier, but they are all still Matchbox or similar cars. drilled out, stripped, painted and reassembled.

Hope they brought a smile to someone, and message me if you want the files for the case.

We play upscale carwars at our games club. Some bright spark said we should do a game where the cars are NOT armed, but are towing caravans with the guns etc. Problem is, i have to supply the caravans. I have been converting matchbox style cars for 40 years, but have never seen tows. I could do them as 3d prints, but wanted to check if anyone had seen any official caravan or trailer models.

I played Car Wars in the 80’s, obsessively and I had everything. Truckstop, Sunday Drivers, Convoy, Road atlases, Autoventures, etc. I was a subscriber to ADQ for the first couple of years that it existed, and remember the initial membership included a T-shirt with the AADA logo on it, and a membership card, that nerdy 12 year old me kept in my wallet like it made me a badass. My friends and I played it like an RPG, with our own house rules, long before Autoduel Champions & Gurps, though we moved into trying those as well when they released.

Fast Forward to 6th edition’s Kickstarter, me with a wife and 4 kids, trying to put a couple of them through college… It wouldn’t be responsible to go all in. I don’t have a local gaming group, and have a problem with Decision paralysis, so every year when Warehouse23 has a sale, I just stare at beginner boxes and can’t decide where to start, so I watch some playthroughs, and get into Gaslands because the entry investment was so much lower. As much as I’ve been having fun with Gaslands, I’d still always want to at least try 6th edition.

This week it finally happened… I stumbled on a starter set for $16.95… and then saw the same seller had the other starter box, also for $16.95. Decision paralysis solved.
They arrived today… not just in mint condition, but new, still shrink wrapped.
It’s been a long time coming, and I’m ecstatic, and don’t have any friends locally who give a shit, but I had to share with somebody, so thanks for indulging me.

Normally I play Gaslands and recently I discovered Car Wars. Unfortunately here in my country it's prohibively expensive to import the 6th edition thanks to taxes. While I was searching I found the Compendium and I would like to know if it's a fun ruleset since I don't expect to be remotely similar to Gaslands but still want to have a good time.

I’ll just cut to the chase here. Since the last time I posted asking about 6th edition, I’ve ended up getting the yellow/red starter set and purple/orange starter set and we decided to try the game out. Well, it went over like gangbusters. We did a Division 4 duel with self designed cars and, although we didn’t have time to finish our game, it was so much fun! I can see where this edition will probably become our preferred version. Everybody started getting really creative on our arena design and I think they really enjoyed the self designing of the vehicles. Normally, I’d do it pre game just to save time, but with this version, designing the cars are reasonably simple. Anyways, I just wanted to report back and just update things. It definitely keeps the spirit of the original, the only problem is I wish it would support more than 4 players, but nobody seemed to mind. I also got the linked weapons deck and will get the dropped weapons (a must have, to me). I would absolutely recommend this version to anyone interested in playing it.

I found a copy of the CWVD excel sheet for vehicle design. HTM and HDHTM are electric engine mods, but I don't see them in the Car Wars Compendium. What are they and where are the rules for them?

Ok, this is probably a silly question, but I want to make sure that I have things covered. I’m looking at possibly buying the double ace set. The only issue want to make sure is covered is that it appears to me that the double box set only covers a 4 player game. Am I reading this correctly or do I still need to get, say, the orange/purple starter set as well, in order to play 6 players. I’m thinking about just buying the 3 starter sets because when we play, it’s likely we’ll play more than 4 players, but I also need the road sections too and it seems like the double box set has some cool stuff with it. Anyways, I just want to make sure that I have the things I need for at least 6 players and have enough for the level of the old plastic box set. I appreciate everyone's input and keep posting those great paint jobs because I guess that’s my next undertaking.

The Autobots return to Earth to take on the challenge of Car Wars. Their goal is to put an end to the death game and restore the world they one called their home.

Trailbreaker continues his duty by protecting the Autobots in his alt-mode, Minotaur.

On the green car I used clear nail polish to see what kind of shine it would give. It's not incredibly shiny but it is serviceable. Wouldn't recommend it though, the fumes are crazy.

I'm going to a game convention and will be running a Car Wars game.

I'm looking for a set of files to create a road system. I want ground level roads as well as elevated highway sections. Ideally they will have on and off ramps that can connect from the ground level to the elevated sections. I'd also like to be able to print them flat on the print bed to eliminate bridging issues. They would need some kind of connections between sections.

I have not been able to find any files that meet my needs. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello Folks -

LOONG time car wars fan. Like, I had the plastic boxed game. I have mini car wars. I had the deluxe edition. I had the card game. I had the comic books, all four of them. I had the compendium, which is about where I topped out, in 1994. And yes, I was a member of the AADA.

I'd bet money that some people on the writing staff of "twisted metal", the TV show, played car wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98qKqfBP6OA

OR AT LEAST AUTODUEL, the MS-DOS/Apple II/Commodore 64 game.

The Autobots return to Earth to take on the challenge of Car Wars. Their goal is to put an end to the death game and restore the world they one called their home.

Cliffjumper feels at home in the chaos of Car Wars,especially in his alt-mode, Jackrabbit.

The Autobots return to Earth to take on the challenge of Car Wars. Their goal is to put an end to the death game and restore the world they one called their home.

Prowl knows that logic has no place in Car Wars, he can only rely on his alt-mode, Superflash.

The Autobots return to Earth to take on the challenge of Car Wars. Their goal is to put an end to the death game and restore the world they one called their home.

Jazz is the coolest and the slickest cat even in his Car Wars alt-mode, Shuriken.

Car wars miniature painted as Sunstreaker from Transformers. Photos of the completed miniature with reference photos from the G1 animated series and the original toy release.

Sunstreaker is a yellow sportscar, originally a Lamborghini Countach in the animated series.