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History, Part I
Last modified: 01/14/2015 21:20:38
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Well, this is understandable... Car Wars is not very popular nowadays (ooo..., am I gonna get it now! ;). It was a lot more popular in the late 80's when it was still growing.
Car Wars is a fancy boardgame with roleplaying elements. Players build massively armoured vehicles with incredibly destructive weapons, and then try to destroy each other for fun... (Hmm, that doesn't sound very nice.)
This game is set fifty years into the future. Sometime around the mid-90's (oops, we past it!), there was supposed to be this big grain blight that wiped out practically all the sources of grain. This led to great social, economic and political upheaval around the world. Corporate armies took over parts of the U.S. A few nukes exploded around the world. Hundreds of thousands starved. Only the advent of algae-based food production allowed a shaky stability to form. A tasteless future indeed!
The world of Car Wars is dark and dangerous. Blood games are now popular on television and on the road. Thousands flock to combat arenas to watch mass destruction be mete out by modern day gladiators equipped with heavily armed & armoured vehicles. Others just hit the streets to find their next unlucky victims. The rest become road kill. Fortunately, cloning has become a reality -- although only for wealthy (costs more than an arm or a leg!).
Players in the game start usually start as one of these gladiators, or autoduellists as we like to call them. Where the players go from there depends on the gamemaster that is controlling the game: a few players have gone to restoring the world; a few others have plundered the world; and most of the rest have ended up as cannon fodder.
The Car Wars game was released by Steve Jackson Games back in the early 80's in a cute little plastic box. Now, the Car Wars game is composed of numerous manuals, counters, maps, magazines and other supplements. Over a hundred clubs devoted to Car Wars have been formed. Yearly tournaments around the world have been setup to discover who is the best autoduellist in the world. Now, the enthusiasm is spreading onto the web... If you want to see any of the other Car Wars web sites, just go to the AVRO links page.
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Reprinted by the Seattle
Washington Autoduel Team, January 20, 2015
Updated May 27, 2023
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