Car Wars Classic Retro Review| Unboxing

Car Wars, where the right of way goes to the biggest guns! Its 2022, but it feels like 1983, as all the pocket box games have returned. This week I take a look at this classic board game/ rpg crossover classic!
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[@paulmackay7265]

I still have so many fond memories of Car Wars. As a bit of a detail, I grew up pretty poor...single mother all that. But she did her best for us. We always had enough to eat and all that good stuff, but toys and games were in short supply. My friends had Transformers, I had little green army men. But me and my friends all got into gaming, but games being quite expensive I played whatever my friends had. That all changed on my 12th birthday. I open my present and what do I see? The pocket box of Car Wars! I had never even heard of it, but...well I had seen The Road Warrior and it looked cool as hell! So I call up my friends and we give it a try. It quickly became our favourite to play. That 5$ that my mom spent (probably skipped lunch to save it , we were POOR) must have gotten us hundreds of hours of fun. Thanks mom! She really was the best, no offence meant to your moms.

[@captcorajus]

Awwww man! What a great story and thank you so much for sharing it with us. We weren't 'poor'. My grandfather was paid very well at the Steel Mill.. so that tells you how long ago that was, but as a teenager, my only income was the $70 to $100 bucks a week I earned as a stock boy at Sears. lol. Car Wars a GREAT game on ANY budget but the fact that it was so cheap made it very acessisble.

[@stevefugatt7075]

Dude, I feel you on the growing up poor thing! My dad was disabled and my mom busted her ass to make a living. BC of that I truly learned to appreciate and make the most use of the handful of gaming stuff I got. To this day I still have and use my old B/X rulebooks that I got for my 11th b'day in 1981.

[@gregbanks5624]

I appreceate this, great share. I recall saving my lunch money to buy Car Wars, Sunday Drivers, and Truck Stop circa 1983.

[@SuperHighTechGamer]

Kids were playing this in the library when I was in the 3rd grade. I wanted to play this so bad! I was starving for entertainment. I went on to reading books like "Traveller" I think was the name. This dude had 7.62 machine guns mounted on his van! My imagination soared because of this game.

[@captainharris8980]

Cool story, dude. I had a friend who was pretty wealthy, his father was a VP of a bank, and he got everything he wanted, but he was never really satisfied with much of anything. He never knew what he missed with Car Wars.

[@KabukiKid]

You are right in saying that half of the fun in Car Wars was sitting and building the cars! I can't tell you how much time I spent flipping through the Uncle Albert's Guides and building out all sort of cars, planning for the next duel we had! :-) This game was a blast... maybe not for everyone, but it was sure for me... and my circle of friends back in the 80s. If you can locate it, the Uncle Albert's Catalog From Hell is worth grabbing, because it is a compilation of every Uncle Albert supplement/gadget the game had to offer. I know this one used to command high prices in the aftermarket, but maybe it is offered digitally now? Not quite sure.

[@gregbanks5624]

So if I learned math from Villains & Vigilantes, I learned physics from Car Wars. Weight, mass, time, speed, just made sense as an early teen. I remember that fish tale issue and trying to break out of it, or the boot legger reverse maneuver. So fun. I was mainly into motorcycles, but tended to get killed a lot. I also recall building a truck that had a Canon on the cab. I shot it sideways and it flipped the semi. Oh well, it was worth it.

[@DiekuGames]

Car Wars was our go-to game to give us a break from D&D and to take any built up frustrations out on each other!

[@captcorajus]

Lol, SAME!!

[@randallbaumgardt3424]

Yup...same

[@thedocklighter]

The Battle Van of Doom, with heavy duty flaming oil-jets (HDFOJ), side flamers, forward HMGs & a top laser turret. Most memorable moment was a bootlegger turn with HDFOJs spraying a lot of parked cycles, preventing reinforcements from interfering with our liberation of Midville from the Regulators. RIP. It was destroyed on the Night of Black Helos, our intro to helicopter rules when the Feds got tired of our Two Counties War and Mudvale Regulators' false flag incident that threatened interstate shipping. We, of course, were former Midville AADA, who became the Irregulars against the Regulators.

[@PatriceBoivin]

I loved those pocket games in ziploc bags: Star Fleet Battles, expansions 1,2,3; O.G.R.E. and G.E.V.; Intruder!; Melee and Wizard; Illuminati; Car Wars. The paper based Aces of Aces game. Around the time of PC games like Spy Hunter. SPI and Avalon Hill. Warhammer and clear dice didn't exist yet. Lead figures were made of ... lead.

[@KabukiKid]

Great selection of games there! :-D I remember being really amazed by Ace of Aces back in the day... really clever little game... the kind of game you could play in the backseat of the car with a friend... or I guess possibly over the phone. lol

[@toddpickens]

Man I remember this game. I only ever got to play it a handful of times, but I remember it very fondly. Ended up as a professional video game developer and have on a couple of occasions got into work on some auto combat games. Unfortunately none of those ever shipped, but car wars and auto duel always had a strong influence on the design.

[@jamesjoy7547]

My friends and I spent many afternoons gleefully destroying each other! An expansion I wouldn't deem necessary but great fun for my group was Dueltrack - gasoline engines and metal armor, which led to our most memorable game. It was a 4-person capture the flag free-for-all in an off-road arena. Each player controlled a pickup and a motorcycle - all equipped with gas engines, metal armor, incendiary ammo, and flamethrowers. Whooo! Explosions everywhere! It came down to the last two cyclists knife-fighting at the base of the flag, truly an experience like no other

[@stevefugatt7075]

There is nothing like "Car Wars" not even to this day. I wished I still had my old CW stuff. I may have to look into the re-release.

[@captcorajus]

A link is in the description! lol. Yeah man. Still inexpensive too!

[@stevefugatt7075]

@@captcorajus I bought the re-release of "Melee" (and the magic suppliment) a bit back.....It's just as great as the original ever was. My stepson and I regularly play it. Perhaps you should do a review of it also. Ogre/G.E.V. .....all of that old Steve Jackson stuff was pretty awesome! Star Fleet Battles was another one that was really good, a friend of mine had it.....another one of those that truly has no equal now.

[@captcorajus]

@@stevefugatt7075 So true. I played a lot of SFB. Never played Ogre/ GEV, but I heard it was good. Did play the Illuminati card game and that was really fun too.

[@stevefugatt7075]

@@captcorajus the old Illuminati game was a hoot!!!

[@ImaginerImagines]

This has to be the best gaming value ever. There are so many hours in that simple box. We played for so many hours just with the starter box alone.

[@ndowroccus4168]

Oh snap! Car wars!!! What the heck was that…oh the Quarterly!!! Yah!! Loved grabbing those… car wars came after D&D.. Motorcycles, school busses with cannons and machine guns, Big Rigs!, helicopters! Guns in cars!!! Cmon! Fury Road RPG!!! Loved car wars, only found two other people that loved it like I did…ah well..

[@captcorajus]

I was fortunate in the 80s and 90s to have two groups that loved the game.

[@fritzhoffmann9746]

Ran a great roleplay Car Wars game for about 8 sessions as a break from AD&D. Then champions, a really great system. Eventually my friends & I created a sci-fi system. Based on %. Worked well.

[@cdfreester]

Did you every play with Autoduel Champions rules?

[@fritzhoffmann9746]

@@cdfreester I believe we used the prestige system that was introduced in the Car Wars compendium.

[@darthjoel6357]

Omg this brings back memories!! I owned a few of the expansion games. We used to use hot wheels instead of the little cardboard piece cars!! 😊

[@captcorajus]

So cool!

[@paulprecour3636]

I still miss the additions for this game, when an 'anything goes' design was still a marketable idea. A Lamborghini with a gatling gun, flying motorcycles vs a monster vehicle, superheroes, good times.

[@Unhacker]

TSR also did some mini games like this, one about vampires I can't remember specifically but my sister and I played it for years, talk about replay value from these old cardboard chits. :)

[@jamesjoy7547]

I think it was called "Vampyre", one of several TSR released; including "They've Invaded Pleasantville", "Revolt On Anteres", and - most popular in my circle - "Saga"! They were all great fun, quick and easy rules in classic genres. Saga, Norse heroes competing for glory, was my group's fave, mostly because of the witches. The most powerful spellcasters in the game, they could utterly freeze a territory, rendering it barren and useless. We delighted in daring each other to "tease the witch!", and howling when the devastating ice spell was rolled

[@evann2938]

This brings back so many good memories of a simpler time. This was a go to during High School lunch hours. I'm sure I still have my copy somewhere. Thanks for covering this great game!

[@captcorajus]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Celtic_Viking]

Big Adnd player but I loved Gamma World.

[@gregbanks5624]

Cap has a Gamma World video. Check it out!

[@DavidLovins67]

I was drooling watching this video. I'm ready to mount machine guns on my 2006 Town and Country. Due to stupid people on the internet, I'm not really gonna do it.

[@markcarey7421]

I played this extensively with my junior high to high school gaming group in the early to mid 80s. Lots of fun and mayhem!

[@chrisperrien7055]

I still have my old original black-box copies of Car Wars and Truck Stop.

[@PagrZero]

I remember there being a reprint not long ago in a cardboard box. I picked it up since it was a Steve Jackson game and was cheap. But that 70s style movie poster cover art really spoke to me as well. Unfortunately I never got to play it, but I had so many RP ideas for a WWE style division and roster where you had characters with gimmicks and costumes but fought to the death at times. A super dramatic over the distopia gladiator campaign.

[@cthulhupthagn5771]

Here's the funny thing. Back in high school so mid-90s, I was a huge BattleTech fan. And I was obsessed with playing similar games. One day I came across the car Wars deluxe edition box set, a big box set that was very heavy because it included all the car Wars rules along with one supplement book. It came with all of the car tokens and included the rules I believe for hovercraft and helicopters. I bought it with the intent of playing it with my friends, but to some extent we were all intimidated by what seemed like an overwhelmingly complex game system. The tools that gave for you to do drifting and turns seemed extremely math heavy, and unfortunately I'm about as far removed from a math minded individual as you can get. So while I have the deluxe edition box set, with the bonus supplement book, and at least one additional book, as well as the 2015 boxes that came out, I've never actually played the game always wanted to and maybe one day I will now because listening to this really got me hyped

[@captcorajus]

Its not really math heavy at all, except for the Vehicle construction rules, but using the construction sheet keeps everything very manageable. If you liked battle tech, Car Wars is much simpler than that!

[@franksmedley7372]

I have many fond memories of playing Car Wars, back in the day. Usually it would be one to three of my friends and I, blowing each other up at one of the Arenas in the game. One factor that kept us playing this 'simple' pocket boxed game, was the ability to design and field our own vehicles. So far as I know, I am one of a very rare few people that can say they penetrated the Armadillo Auto-Duel Arena's wall with rocket fire from my custom vehicle. Multi-Linked Micro-Missiles for the win! I was sorry to see the game fade into obscurity over the decades, and while visiting a gaming shop one day, I found a small map, play-test going on. I joined in the fun with a Ram-Plated vehicle and quickly 'killed' all but one of the other players in short order (The one I didn't 'kill' was destroyed by another player). I played several games in succession, always winning. I was even accused of cheating, and being a company plant to prevent players from winning. I found this funny, since I was now in my 40's and most of the players were in their mid-teens to middle 20's. They never even considered that I had played the original pocket boxed version of the game. Sadly, due to an apartment fire and resulting water damages, I lost all my stuff and have not had the resources to replace them as of this time. But the fond memories remain.

[@captcorajus]

Great story! Sorry to hear about your game loss! The reprints are still inexpensive!

[@hawkeyepearce1066]

Loved this game, It was my first purchase from the original Games Workshop UK store in London, back in '82. This became a staple of weekend gaming for years, I even picked up a copy of 'Autoduel Champions', providing a cross-over with the superhero RPG. I remember it meshing reasonably well, with both systems using segmented movement based on speed. I distinctly recall a session involving a speedster character competing in an arena duel against a collection of 4-wheeled competitors, which was a blast. Thanks for another much-appreciated nostalgia hit!

[@TheGeekDaddy929]

Oh yeah, another classic!!

[@Cary_Glenn]

I spent hours playing this with my friends when I lived off the grid im the 90s. So much fun at a cheap price.

[@kennetth1389]

Cars wars and Ogre were group favorites. Some weekends they pushed the planned D&D game onto the back burner.

[@infiniwaffle1214]

This was the first tabletop game I ever played. A friends dad ran it for us once. My gun jammed immediately so I just crashed into someone else. He was so mad, but it was fun. Never even thought about tabletop games for a decade until recently. Now I run DnD and am getting into Battletech.

[@isolationdisorder]

Played an awful lot of this from 1982 well into the 2000's. Spent countless hours listening to music designing cars and arenas and even cities. Much pizza and soda was consumed in the early years, as were coffee and weed in later years! Hahaha! Those were great times! Thanks for the great review video! Definitely a Natural 20, one of the best games ever.

[@Bobario1]

I remember buying the original zip lock bag version from Game in Liverpool Back in the early 80's. I fell in love with it and would eventually run it as a Mad Max/Road Warrior style RPG game for my friends in school for a while. I ended up getting all the expansions and setting a campaign around the Midville map. Happy memories.

[@Al-ny8dr]

I have the original game and 6th edition. I was skeptical of 6th edition until I played it a few times. I now have about $400 bucks into it. I now have friends taking matchbox cars, and fitting them to the bases and creating their own models. Instead of taking hours to finish a fight, it now takes less than an hour. Though simplified dramatically, it still plays roughly the same. It's easy to implement your own rules to spice things up. The turning key in the new version is just so nice to use, and someone sneezing doesn't blow all the counters off the map. The game pieces and such are of high quality, and are not flimsy at all. Sure it's pricey, which may turn off some people. I do feel what I purchased though was worth the cost. I don't have the time anymore to play the old version, and teaching the new version is easy. After you play a few games, you realize there are still plenty of strategies to try. I've now played well over a hundred games of it, and my friends still pop over to enjoy the game. Which version is better? Well, it mostly depends on how much time you have. The new version is also way easier to get new players.

[@flipthrough6806]

Car wars was the coolest game. I remember once we played it I mowed 4 lawns the next couple of days. Then I went and got Sunday Drivers. Then another week of lawns and it was Truck Stop. Man I had allergies killing me for a month, but hell it was worth it. Thanks Steve Jackson. You the man.

[@captcorajus]

Oh wow! that's a great story. Love me some care wars!

[@realbrooklynjes]

i remember reading these as a kid, they were awesome

[@craigfurness5278]

Jesus wept, I feel old. Me and my brother would play these game with a few friends WAY back in the day. Loved that stuff....

[@chadbowser4569]

I think we had the same childhood. I remember back in middle school we played the full gambit of Star Fleet Battles, Star Frontiers; Car Wars/Truckstop and D&D. We even mixed in a little Marvel RPG. We would play Car Wars at lunch and rush home after football practice for D&D.

[@captcorajus]

Lol.. yes! Never played the Marvel RPG. We started off with Villains' and Vigilantes and then moved to Champions. Star Frontiers, yes, and Top Secret!

[@YorkshireMatt]

That brings back some memories this and battle-cars.

[@enoa4]

I never owned or played this, but was often curious. I fondly remember seeing it at my local hobby shop and at conventions back in the day. Great review. Thank you.

[@apathyguy8338]

Anyone else also play Auto duel, Road War and Road War Europa? I was lucky enough to have an apple 2c back then and I played those games to death as well.

[@tombolenbaugh4030]

Yup! Played all but Road War Europa. Never got the hang of curing the plague in Road War so I tried to stay out of the south :)

[@apathyguy8338]

Man I remember when I was in high school me and my buddy started a Car Wars Club they were like 20 kids in it we played every Tuesday afternoon for about 3 hours after school. It was awesome. Believe it or not I did get laid in high school.

[@captcorajus]

Oh wow! That sounds like a blast!

[@ndowroccus4168]

Oh right…ALWAYS get the body armor

[@captcorajus]

Yes, ALWAYS!

[@maggoli67]

Spent hours scouring Uncle Al's. Loved my reverse trike with the oneshot six shooter in the back...bootleg, show arse, and FIRE! then run. Very fast.

[@johnstevenperez4186]

Man, I miss this game. Had the Truck Stop expansion and Uncle Albert's Catalog. Was almost always a motorcycle player in heavy body armor. The G.U.R.P.S. book rounded my character out.

[@cheneymoss6402]

I remember the game being out, but I somehow never really got into it. I think I tried it once with some friends at school in 5th grade, but never picked it up myself. I always thought it looked like a fun game, but just never got it. I did try to video game version a few time (cannot recall if it was a knock-off or something Steven Jackson games licensed), which was pretty decent for those 80s graphics, I just recall it being difficult to get started and build up enough money to survive long if you went onto the roads in the wilds and got attacked by bandits or the like.

[@captcorajus]

There was a pretty awesome Commodore 64 version of the game that I played a lot of. The lifespan of Car Wars characters tends to be short but, really, its all about the chaos. Every group I've played it in has had an absolute blast with it.

[@imperator88vis67]

What a blast from the past! I had that original pocketbox, but never got anything else for ithe game. My friend, his brother and I used to play Cars Wars on his bedroom floor. I remember that little white car with the flame job on the hood so it must have been my favorite!

[@captcorajus]

Yeah, that was my favorite as well!

[@WarhavenSC]

I had Autoduel on my Apple II, which was heavily based on Car Wars. Was one of my favorite games on my old computer. [edit] Forgot to mention that I've actually never played the tabletop game, despite it being a common byword among my peers. I pretty much stuck to D&D.

[@captcorajus]

I had Autoduel for my Commodore 64!

[@KabukiKid]

@@captcorajus I have the C-64 version too! That game was a blast! The final segment was hard as nails!

[@j.p.holiday8899]

I too enjoyed many nights engaging in the wonderful past time of Autodueling on my Commodore 64 back in the age of Titans.

[@jasonpaul6418]

One if my all time favorite games, still have the box set, the deluxe set and a few of the uncle Albert catalogs. Even tried to convert the rules to D20 years ago. Love this car, perfect in so many ways.

[@andrewhaldenby4949]

Played this in the Uk in the early 1980s. Great fun. I seem to remember it was easy to knock the cars all over the road with an unwitting hand or elbow

[@cdfreester]

I played the original Star Fleet Battles in pocket game form and another game called Ice Wars, set in Alaska as the Soviets try to take over the oil pipeline from the US. I was consistently fascinated by Car Wars but I don't recall playing it. None of my friends seemed to take an interest in it. I played a lot of Champions, and Autoduel Champions also caught my attention, but I also never bought of that supplement, either.

[@midnitepagan9118]

I still own that boxset. plus truck stop and ada vehicle guide all the way back from the 80s.

[@ryancampbell2192]

I loved both this game & the gurps Autoduel from Steve Jackson in the mid-late 80s.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

Thanks for the heart, Captcorajus. Keep up the nice videos.

[@mbdulka]

I think it was the summer of '88 or '89 and we played Car Wars with friends all every day all summer long ... so fun! Friend's older brother was the DM, he was so good! Killer RV for the win!

[@eightsprites]

As a kid I was standing in the game store looking at it for a long time, couldn’t decide if I should buy or not buy. In the end I didn’t. Have regretted it for years.

[@MarauderXXX]

Wow. Memories. I'd love to have that multi-color on white background cover as a framed poster.

[@BryanLeeDavidson]

I may take some Car War ideas and mix it in with Gas Lands.

[@garicb9271]

Have you ever reviewed that old D&D coloring book? It had a mini game in it as I recall. Quite fun.

[@captcorajus]

I'm sure it was, but I'm pretty sure that might be a bit beyond the scope of the channel. :)

[@Lcirex]

Oh found a sealed copy of this about 3 months back at a thrift store for 75 cents. Good find.

[@captcorajus]

Oh, wow! Nice find!

[@ndowroccus4168]

Haha I recall that white super car with flames on the front (cut out)

[@craigsternelsonsr.1967]

Did anyone out there subscribe to the official Car Wars magazine 'Autoduel Quarterly'? I got in on the ground floor with issue #1 and still have around 6 or 8 total issues. I have the original bagged version of the game, as well as the plastic case version and all of the original published game supplements up until the 'Deluxe Edition' was released. Such a Great Game!

[@guyfrattallone6029]

We had the larger Car Wars boxed set back in the 90s. Sadly we couldn't figure out what to do with it and quickly went back to D&D...oh well.

[@RustyX2010]

"Life imitates Art!" as how things are going on in the real world compared to this game's timeline and how they use electric vehicles!

[@DLeif-bk3ye]

Had a pickup with a front mounted gauss gun , turreted rocket launcher and twin mine dropper rear. Was spectacularly destroyed on a courier mission.

[@captcorajus]

"Spectacularly destroyed"... lol yes!

[@Cameroo]

Never been a car guy. But I love some auto duel fiction. Games like Road Blasters (Heck matchbox made a line of toys based on this game), Interstate 76' and Carmageddon where huge for me in my teens. And of course with movies like The Road Warrior, Damnation Alley, Mega Force and even Death Race 2000 I'm surprised I slept on this being an 80's kid. Modding hot wheels toys into death racers sounds like a thing both me AND my brother could really get into and not very expensive at all! Thanks for the fun review. =)

[@captcorajus]

OMG.. Death Race 2000. Loved that movie. We got a legit USA map and then plotted the route for the 'Death Race' and had a campaign based on it.

[@DLeif-bk3ye]

My first and favorite ! Works great as a rpg system too.

[@captcorajus]

yes it does absolutely!

[@KabukiKid]

I never knew anyone who actually played it as an RPG, but I was always curious about that as an option. When we played, it was always just one-off duels.

[@derekmann494]

The classic cover art by David R Deitrick!!

[@DarkAutumnScribe]

Nice! Haven't played Car Wars in years but it was a lot of fun! Thanks!

[@goodlookingcorpse]

Another possible influence: Damnation Alley (both book and film).

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

I just checked and under gamebooks on Wikipedia if you click on Steve Jackson's Car Wars the page doesn't go to the top of the Car Wars page but goes right down to Other Products for Car Wars where the six-gamebook spin offs I was told about are mentioned. At the top of the whole Car Wars page Wikipedia called the original game a vehicle combat simulation game.

[@danwilliams6519]

I used a spreadsheet for the very first time in my life designing cars for this game.

[@opa-age]

Autoduel was a great computer game based on Car Wars

[@KabukiKid]

Many hours sunk into that one! :-D Fantastic old-school computer game.

[@b.o.4492]

Been around since the ziplocks. Loved the video!

[@robbabcock_]

Thanks for a nostalgic trip back to the days of my youth!

[@raisenets99]

One of the first games I played in the 80's, I still live in that rabbit hole. Can you please do 6th edition review please?

[@captcorajus]

Unless Steve Jackson gifts me with a set, that seems unlikely. :) a bit too expensive for me.

[@maggoli67]

this and Star Fleet Battles made damage tracking fun...oh, and Battletech.

[@captcorajus]

Yes. I loved Battletech too!

[@CaptainHarris-ip2kg]

I was going to turn CW into a series of films. Unfortunately I had some opposition from people in the family who didn't see the financial payoff. ... it still burns me up, but given the nature of the film industry, it's just as well.

[@CaptainHarris-ip2kg]

Thanks for the heart. My mother sees Car Wars as children's fare, and old school Star Trek as "satanic" (she's very Catholic). My fear at the time would be that some producer would raid the treasury of all those pocket games byu SPI, Metagaming, SJ Games and so forth, but it never happened because commercial feature films today are all about sociology; inspiring various people of various backgrounds to go into careers; notably undercover cop work which is what superhero films are all about. I went into film to tell stories, not to be a therapist to the movie going masses, so it was one of the many reasons I left. Thanks again for reading ... my film would have kicked ass.

[@jasonsimpkins7777]

Oh wow memories! Although to be honest I was more of an Ogre kind of guy.

[@captcorajus]

I've heard Ogre was pretty good. I'll have to check it out now that its available again!

[@NinjaRunningWild]

@@captcorajus You absolutely should. It's a fantastic game. There's also the original PC DOS game by Origin & the new one on PC & consoles.

[@KabukiKid]

Ogre was my introduction to hex & chit style wargames. Nice and simple... and the sci-fi non-historical aspect can he appealing, as well. The old computer game from Origin Systems was solid... I had the C-64 version. I remember one of the "feelies" that came with it was an actual working radiation badge you would clip on your shirt and wear. lol Gotta love being thematic! ;-)

[@edfleming9873]

A great review and I cannot agree with you more about this and the sixth edition, maybe the grognard in me. I would add the Car Wars Arena Book for $3 and for those down the rabbit hole the AADA Road Atlases for $4 each at drivethrurpg. Thanks for bringing back the memories, as always.

[@edfleming9873]

On a personal note, I still own the original Pocket Box edition, as well as, a 2E boxed set. I use them for reference and building vehicles for Champions.

[@bbb462cid]

Loved this, but *Autoduel* was where it was at!

[@ktg8030]

I love this god damn channel. And the theme song.

[@ktg8030]

OMG Death Race 2000. I LOVE that movie, but most people haven't heard of it let alone seen it.

[@DavidLovins67]

I want to play!

[@jdmcdonnell71]

How much of a car wars guy am I? I'm reading over these comments thinking: nice but there's no way you could fit that many weapons into an XXX. It's force of habit!!!

[@KabukiKid]

lol... I was scouring the comments wondering if anyone would bring up how broken composite armor was! How many groups banned it or house-ruled it in some way? lol ;-)

[@johnnyo3535]

Thank you my liege

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

I know it will be silly if I thank you for every heart so how about just for every six or so responses? Happy New year to you and everyone else on your site and in this chat, Captcorajus.

[@captcorajus]

Hey brother, thanks. Happy New Year to you too.

[@plotsmeanswaysanddevices]

Just surround the driver with beer fridges😊

[@captcorajus]

Lol!

[@lindy9196]

And don't forget the Autoduel computer game. Probably close to unplayable by today's gaming standards but still...

[@KabukiKid]

I'd kill for a modern CRPG like the old-school Autoduel... it would be very cool with some modern updates and polish.

[@mr.sluggo7525]

Today’s youth has Fortnite, and we had Car Wars. It was battle royale before it was a thing. Simple rules that allows gamers a break from heavy role play.

[@jtodd5435]

Laser or dual laser in a turret, mines in the back

[@captcorajus]

Expansive, but add in a cyberlink and its a killer!

[@tombolenbaugh4030]

Still a big fan of the classic. 5th Edition Car Wars is also worth a look. It died too soon (practically on arrival) but the core rules are excellent.

[@itsasecrettoeverybody]

Unrelated to the video, I just want to tank you, I gave a shot to Castles and Crusades, and it took the place of BFRPG and S&W on my table. It feels like AD&D 1st and a little of 2nd as I remember playing when I was younger. I never dm AD&D because at the time, and even now, I thought the rules were very intimidating, but C&C simplify and modernize things a lot without removing the feeling of the system, it is for AD&D what BFRPG and S&W are for basic D&D. I didn't thought I would like it that much. Not only me, my group is loving it. For now we are playing on their campaign setting, Aihrde, but I want to try to adapt hyperborea to run with C&C some day.

[@captcorajus]

Thanks for letting me know. It really inspires me, thank you!

[@itsasecrettoeverybody]

@@captcorajus thank you. Your reviews are very entertaining and helpful.

[@MrRourk]

I just need a Interceptor V8

[@Dracopol]

Original Car Wars broke down a second into *15* phases, not 10. Your chosen actions took 3 or 4 phases so fortunately you were not acting every phase. The new version of Car Wars has simplified things into 5 phases per second. I didn't pay much attention to it. I was into Star Frontiers which gave me RPG ranged, melee, vehicle and aerial combat all at once! You could instantly do a Road Warrior scenario including the crazy autogyro pilot.

[@captcorajus]

Trust me brother. Its 10 phases a second, each phase being 1/10th of a second. I'm looking at the rulebook and the speed chart. Star Frontiers was awesome!

[@Dracopol]

@@captcorajus Oh, damn! I must have quantum-jumped to a new universe where there are subtle changes.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

I'm into gamebooks and this game is mentioned under that category on Wikipedia. I loved your video here. It was a nice treat to see the mechanics of this game. Does the box make you think of an 80's of 70's video game cartridge. I have one of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Deathtrap Dungeon. And this car wars look much more in depth. If I ever try it. I'll let you know.

[@captcorajus]

Yes! Its absolutely about the size of a VHS tape box!

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

@@captcorajus funny. Thanks for the response and the last two hearts.

[@GreenTeaViewer]

There were actually official Car Wars gamebooks, a series of 6. They were very good. There was also Convoy, a similarly gamebooks style supplement for Car Wars itself.

[@jamiemcdonough6548]

@@GreenTeaViewer good to know. Thanks for mentioning this, Love and Harmony. Because Car Wars was under gamebook in Wikipedia I just assumed the original and onward were gamebooks. Are they not really?

[@GreenTeaViewer]

@@jamiemcdonough6548 Jamie, Car Wars as seen in this video is not a gamebook series. It is a tabletop game. There was a spin-off Car Wars gamebook series from the 80s. Board Game Geek is a website that has better information on these things than Wikipedia.

[@raymondoverbee2300]

@captcorajus do yuo have a review of a Battlestar Galactica RP had 3 map sections 1 plain 1 with a Battlestar and 1 with a Basestar in a box about the size the same size as D&D

[@dane3038]

300xp.

[@sup3rb4d]

Where u get steering wheel performance tracker

[@captcorajus]

I made it. I uploaded the file to print for patrons. :)

[@1neinate0]

1.5x fo sho

[@WayneBraack]

What's a cool looking little game. But really for what it is for those prices that they're selling this thing for now you're right, I would not buy it

[@fleetcenturion]

Meh...

[@MikeWhiskyTango]

I was a member of a wargames group in 1975-80 and before car-wars came out us kids in the club used to wait till the seniors finished with the stalingrad scenery and then we'd each have 3 jeeps with .50 cals and roar around the streets hosing each other down using ww2 rules (Battleground ww2 rules by Mal Wright).