Jeffro’s Car Wars Blog

Finally drug some new guys into a match! (This was the first time I played Car Wars with anyone outside of my teenaged gaming group.)

I refereed and ended up doing the moves for both players. “I’ll take two d0’s to the right this phase.” That seemed to work well. I tracked all the handling, speed, and damage details on a clipboard. These measures insure a fair game.

It was Bumblebee vs. Killer Kart Racer. The Bumblebee scored lots of hits in spite of the ultra-low profile and ended up tailgating his opponent for several seconds. The Killer Kart finally did a bootlegger’s reverse and came to a stop in the corner of the arena. That may have fixed the tailgating problem, but it didn’t help when Bumblebee slammed into him at 70 miles an hour. (The player had wanted to do a J-turn ever since he read about it….) There wasn’t much left of the Kart, but the Bee could still drive!

It took an hour and ten minutes to play out the eight second match. These guys are hard-core Halo players…. It’ll be interesting to see if they play again sometime….