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Designed By	Chad Irby Steve Jackson (US)
Art By
Published By	Fanpro Siroz Productions Steve Jackson Games
Year Published	1981
# of Players:	2 − 8
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players (8 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (1 voter) [poll]
Category	Racing
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter
Primary Name	Car Wars
Alternate Names	Car Wars Deluxe Edition
Expanded By	Aeroduel Autoduel America Boat Wars, A Car Wars Supplement Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 1: Starter Set Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 2: Intersections Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 3: Straights Car Wars Arena Book Car Wars Arena Book 1 Car Wars Expansion Set #1 Car Wars Expansion Set #10 Car Wars Expansion Set #2 Car Wars Expansion Set #3, East Midville Car Wars Expansion Set #4, Armadillo Autoduel Arena Car Wars Expansion Set #5, Double Arena Car Wars Expansion Set #6, The AADA Vehicle Guide Counters Car Wars Expansion Set #7, Off-Road Duelling Car Wars Expansion Set #8, Chopper Challenge Car Wars Expansion Set #9, Muskogee Fairground & Family Emporium Car Wars Expansion Set, The AADA Vehicle Guide 2 Counters Car Wars Supplement, Autoduel Quarterly Car Wars Supplement, City Blocks Car Wars Supplement, City Blocks 2 Car Wars Supplement, City Blocks 3 Car Wars Supplement, City Blocks 4: 3-D Arena Car Wars Supplement, Combat Showcase Car Wars Supplement, Division 5 Vehicle Guide Car Wars Supplement, Military Vehicle Guide Car Wars Supplement, The AADA Vehicle Guide Car Wars Supplement, The AADA Vehicle Guide - Volume 2 Car Wars Supplement, The AADA Vehicle Guide - Volume 3 Car Wars Supplements - The AADA Road Atlas and Survival Guides Car Wars Tanks Convoy, A Programmed Car Wars Adventure Dueltrack, A Car Wars Deluxe Supplement L'Outrance, The AADA Duel Circuit, a Car Wars Supplement Mean Streets, Battle and Intrigue in the Ruins of Houston Midville, a Car Wars adventure pack Muskogee Mayhem, a Car Wars adventure pack Sunday Drivers, A Car Wars Supplement Truck Stop, A Car Wars Supplement Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop 2035 Catalog Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop 2036 Catalog Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop 2038 Calendar Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop 2038 Catalog Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop 2039 Catalog Uncle Albert's Auto Stop & Gunnery Shop Catalog From Hell Show More »
Families	Car Wars
Website	http://www.sjgames.com/car-wars/

	Description Edit \| History

Car Wars is a game of freeways of the future where the right of way goes to the biggest guns. Players choose their vehicle - complete with weapons, armor, power plants, suspension, and even body style. Then they take them out on the road... to come home as "aces", or to crash and burn. If a driver survives, his abilities improve, and he can earn money to buy bigger and better cars. Advanced rules let players design their own customized cars, trucks, and cycles.

This entry covers Car Wars and Car Wars Deluxe, the first two editions of the rules. See also:

Car Wars Compendium, CWC and CWCII, the third and fourth editions of the rules

Car Wars (Fifth Edition) for the revised and simplified edition of the game

Car Wars Series for a complete list of Expansions and Supplements (including Autoduel Quarterly, the 40-issue Car Wars magazine)

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1994 (2044) Mark "Mid-air" DeVries driving Lionheart

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17	Sessions Dueling in the Maine's "Portland Car Arena"	2009-11-09	meecrob111	17
1	News AADA Vehicle Guide Counters (EXP 6) available on e23!	2009-11-05	TheChin!	0
0	Variants Formula One KERS	2009-10-28	owenmp	2
5	General Music for Carmaggeddon	2009-10-21	omnicrond...	20
28	Sessions 4 at Armadillo x2: Rules, Rulings, Pictures, Tactics, Stats, Campaign Notes... Everything!	2009-10-21	Jeffr0	3
0	General Deluxe Edition on Geeklist Auction	2009-10-19	Progmode	0
4	General Car Wars Compendium in Glorious PDF	2009-10-16	schoon	0
7	News Car Wars Compendium 2.5 Now Available on e23!	2009-10-15	owenmp	4
20	Sessions Retama Duel Center hosts team amateur night event	2009-10-15	earlburt	6
16	Sessions Exfoliaris VII - Death wears a concrete cape	2009-10-08	Epee	3

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
Car Wars Compendium

Standard Recommendations
Car Wars - 5th Edition	Ogre	Car Wars: The Card Game	Car Wars Supplements - The AADA Road Atlas and Survival Guides
Midville, a Car Wars adventure pack	G.E.V.

Weak Recommendations
Illuminati: New World Order	Chitin: I	Nuclear War	Melee
Princess Ryan's Star Marines	Blood Bowl - First Edition	Car Wars Supplement, Military Vehicle Guide	Renegade Legion: Interceptor
Muskogee Mayhem, a Car Wars adventure pack	Orbit War	Tactics II	Battle Cattle
Snit Smashing	C-23	Starship Troopers	Battletech

Very Weak Recommendations
Star Fleet Battles	Illuminati	Kings & Things	Nuclear Escalation
The Awful Green Things from Outer Space	Circus Maximus	Wizard's Quest

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Compendium Tables

Tables from the compendium, on a file

masmas

2009-09-07

1:64 Scale Turning Key

This turning key is useful if you want to use toy cars (such as Hot Wheels or Matchbox, or any other 1:64 scale models) for your Car Wars games.

brerfrog

2008-03-16

Road Sections

1:180 scale road sections by Aramis.

aramis

2008-03-08

Other Dueling Questions (ODQ) (Version 2.6)

Clarifications/answers to more obscure Car Wars dueling questions.

efreeman

2008-01-18

Car Wars Referee Questionnaire (CWRQ) (Version 4.7)

Clarifications and Answers to CW rules ambiguities

efreeman

2008-01-18

Car Wars Construction Sheet.pdf

High quality reproduction of the Vehicle Construction Sheet in PDF fromat.

anubis9

2006-05-04

Car Wars Sheet.pdf

A Vehicle Record Sheet with marked areas area for weapons, ammo, power plant, driver, etc.

anubis9

2006-05-04

car wars - vehicle construction sheet.jpg

Car Wars - vehicle construction sheet

cheeseontoast

2005-01-27

car wars - truck record sheet.jpg

Car Wars - truck record sheet

cheeseontoast

2005-01-27

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Car Wars - car record sheet

cheeseontoast

2005-01-27

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377	Let Google Rename a Game	2009-02-24
314	The BoardGameGeek VASSAL Competitor's Directory -- wargamers wanted!	2007-09-09
286	BoardGameGeek Chain of Generosity	2007-09-19
233	GEEK VAHALLA: A tribute to John Daniels (Redneon)	2009-03-20
200	Let's play a game!	2008-04-07
198	A Simpsons Quote for Every Game	2006-07-20
192	Original Video Games for Boardgames Lovers	2008-12-13
184	Childhood misconceptions	2009-05-27
162	Enough!!!	2009-08-29

	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	1231
Num Ratings:	1178
Average Rating:	6.22
Standard Deviation:	1.59
Num Views:	64033
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	3.0
Fans:	18

Personal Comments:	536
Users Owning:	1665
Users Wanting:	23
Users Trading:	104
Has Parts For Trade:	4
Want Parts In Trade:	1
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Total Plays:	10848
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Aeroduel

Rank	0
Num Ratings	30
Average Rating	5.42
Average Weight	3.33

Owned	82
Prev. Owned	5
For Trade	6
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	4
Comments	13
Year Pub.	1990

Autoduel America

Rank	0
Num Ratings	4
Average Rating	8.50
Average Weight	1.00

Owned	17
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	0

Wishlist	3
Comments	4
Year Pub.	1989

Boat Wars, A Car Wars Supplement

Rank	0
Num Ratings	53
Average Rating	5.28
Average Weight	3.08

Owned	152
Prev. Owned	11
For Trade	6
Wanted in Trade	3

Wishlist	6
Comments	30
Year Pub.	1988

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 1: Starter Set

Rank	0
Num Ratings	3
Average Rating	4.67
Average Weight	0.00

Owned	18
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	2
Comments	2
Year Pub.	1985

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 2: Intersections

Rank	0
Num Ratings	7
Average Rating	5.29
Average Weight	0.00

Owned	20
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	4
Comments	1
Year Pub.	1985

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 3: Straights

Rank	0
Num Ratings	6
Average Rating	4.83
Average Weight	0.00

Owned	21
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	1

Wishlist	2
Comments	1
Year Pub.	1985

Car Wars Arena Book

Rank	0
Num Ratings	31
Average Rating	6.34
Average Weight	4.00

Owned	77
Prev. Owned	6
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	6
Comments	14
Year Pub.	1988

Car Wars Arena Book 1

Rank	0
Num Ratings	5
Average Rating	6.00
Average Weight	4.00

Owned	23
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	2
Comments	1
Year Pub.	2002

Car Wars Expansion Set #1

Rank	0
Num Ratings	42
Average Rating	5.92
Average Weight	2.60

Owned	121
Prev. Owned	11
For Trade	3
Wanted in Trade	2

Wishlist	5
Comments	15
Year Pub.	1983

Car Wars Expansion Set #10

Rank	0
Num Ratings	3
Average Rating	3.67
Average Weight	0.00

Owned	11
Prev. Owned	2
For Trade	1
Wanted in Trade	3

Wishlist	4
Comments	0
Year Pub.	1986

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Car Wars Vehicle Designer	http://www.breueronline.de/klaus/carwars/	2009-10-09
Home page at Publisher	http://www.sjgames.com/car-wars/	2009-09-03
Seattle Washington Autoduel Team (New URL August 2009)	http://www.seanet.com/~owenmp/seanet.com	2009-08-06
Car Wars Online Design Assistant	http://www.princeton.edu/~sgu/carwars/cwdesigner.h...	2007-04-11
SWAT Headquarters - Tons of Car Wars links	http://www.serv.net/~owenmp/swathome.html	2006-05-12
Car Wars Forum hosted by Steve Jackson Games	http://forums.sjgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23	2006-05-12
awesome excel spreadsheet for designing vehicles.	http://cwhnj.com/madhat/carwars/download/mhdd.zip	2006-01-18
Online Car Wars league (Yahoo! group)	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cwo/	2005-12-12
Current & Future PBEM Games	http://cwhnj.com/madhat/	2005-06-09
House Rules for Car Wars: Chassis & Crossbow	http://members.cox.net/bosco.bina1/carwars/	2005-01-28

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