Jeffro’s Car Wars Blog

Does the Hotshot always seem to die in her duels against the Piranha?

Try this instead!

Remove 20 rounds of MG ammo, 4 rounds of FT ammo, the 2 FT’s from the sides, and the “Panic” button. Add 71 points of armor, two incendiary MR’s linked right, and two incendiary MR’s linked left. (An MR is like an HR except it does only 2 dice damage.)

Cost becomes an even $15,000. Weight becomes 6540 lbs.

You might miss the ammo, but without the extra armor in this variant the stock Hotshot can’t survive long enough to shoot it anyway. Any pass in which both MR’s and FT’s hit has very good odds of scoring 2 fire markers. Hopefully the MR’s will weaken his armor enough so that when your he catches fire he’ll have a decent chance of getting breached.

Design Note: The Hotshot is one of the oldest and most produced designs in the game. Because this variant doesn’t move anything around, this is a believable upgrade that real life “street” HotShot’s could easily have been converted to.