Designer	Chad Irby Steve Jackson (US)
Artist	David R. Deitrick Denis Loubet
Publisher	Fanpro Hobby Japan 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 (9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (1 voter) [poll]
Subdomain	Wargames (13 voters) [vote]
Category	Racing Science Fiction
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter
Expansion	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 Reference Screen 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 The Road Street Fighter Sunday Drivers, A Car Wars Supplement Truck Stop, A Car Wars Supplement TurboFire 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 »
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Primary Name	Car Wars
Alternate Names	Car Wars Deluxe Edition
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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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Car Wars Deluxe Edition

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Revised Edition

Publisher: Steve Jackson Games

Artist: David R. Deitrick, Denis Loubet

Year: 1985

Size: 12.25 x 9.25 x 1.25 inches

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Third Edition - Revised

Publisher: Steve Jackson Games

Artist: David R. Deitrick

Year: 1983

Size: 7.25 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches

0.20 pounds

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First edition

Publisher: Steve Jackson Games

Artist: David R. Deitrick, Denis Loubet

Year: 1981

Product Code: 1104

Size: 7.25 x 4.25 x 0.75 inches

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	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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Bad Beardo's Autoduelling Guide

A small guide to a few arenas I created for vassal. A bit of flavor for each one along with special rules. Start your engines, its dyin' time! You can download the vassal files as well as these maps for vassal over here: http://nadaduelcircuit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=52

beardo1976

2010-04-09

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

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Car Wars - vehicle construction sheet

cheeseontoast

2005-01-27

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Car Wars - truck record sheet

cheeseontoast

2005-01-27

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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	1269
War Game Rank:	648
Num Ratings:	1266
Average Rating:	6.23
Standard Deviation:	1.58
Num Views:	77784
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	3.0
Fans:	25

Personal Comments:	569
Users Owning:	1849
Users Wanting:	23
Users Trading:	110 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	4
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	10844
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Aeroduel

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	30
Average Rating	5.42
Average Weight	3.33

Num Owned	84
Prev. Owned	6
For Trade	5
Want in Trade	1

Wishlist	4
Comments	13
Year Published	1990

Autoduel America

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Num Ratings	4
Average Rating	8.50
Average Weight	1.00

Num Owned	17
Prev. Owned	1
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	1

Wishlist	3
Comments	4
Year Published	1989

Boat Wars: A Car Wars Supplement

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Num Ratings	54
Average Rating	5.33
Average Weight	3.08

Num Owned	167
Prev. Owned	11
For Trade	8
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	4
Comments	31
Year Published	1988

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 1: Starter Set

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Num Ratings	5
Average Rating	5.60
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	24
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	1

Wishlist	0
Comments	3
Year Published	1985

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 2: Intersections

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Num Ratings	7
Average Rating	5.29
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	25
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	1
Want in Trade	1

Wishlist	2
Comments	1
Year Published	1985

Car Wars - Deluxe Road Sections Set 3: Straights

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	6
Average Rating	4.83
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	27
Prev. Owned	4
For Trade	1
Want in Trade	0

Wishlist	1
Comments	1
Year Published	1985

Car Wars Arena Book

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Num Ratings	31
Average Rating	6.35
Average Weight	4.00

Num Owned	81
Prev. Owned	7
For Trade	1
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	4
Comments	13
Year Published	1988

Car Wars Arena Book 1

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Num Ratings	6
Average Rating	6.08
Average Weight	4.00

Num Owned	27
Prev. Owned	0
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	3

Wishlist	3
Comments	1
Year Published	2002

Car Wars Expansion Set #1

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	40
Average Rating	5.86
Average Weight	2.60

Num Owned	123
Prev. Owned	13
For Trade	4
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	4
Comments	14
Year Published	1983

Car Wars Expansion Set #10

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	5
Average Rating	3.80
Average Weight	0.00

Num Owned	18
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	0
Want in Trade	2

Wishlist	2
Comments	0
Year Published	1986

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Discussion (English) of Car Wars on Gameopolis.org	http://gameopolis.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=504...	2010-04-16
Vassal module	http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php?op...	2010-02-25
Car Wars Vehicle Designer	http://www.breueronline.de/klaus/carwars/	2009-10-09
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Car Wars Online Design Assistant	http://www.princeton.edu/~sgu/carwars/cwdesigner.h...	2007-04-11
SWAT Headquarters - Tons of Car Wars links (New URL March 2010)	http://www.seanet.com/~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
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