Battlecars is a simple wargame set in the Mad Max style of post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs, first published by Games Workshop in 1983 and designed by Gary Chalk and Ian Livingstone. Each player controls one or more battlecars armed with machine guns, flamethrowers, spike droppers and similar devices, much of it borrowed from the modified vehicles of the James Bond films. The mechanics are deliberately simple, with damage marked off using card counters, and some more mature players found the rules too basic and the cars impossible to design for oneself. It may have been meant to capitalise on Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars, but it was not successful. One boxed expansion, Battlebikes, added motorcycles. A Swedish edition appeared from Target Games as Combat Cars, and Games Workshop released a ZX Spectrum version in 1984. White Dwarf rated it 8 out of 10.
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1. Battlecars (Wikipedia)
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Battlecars is a simple wargame based upon the Mad Max genre of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by aggressive, warring gangs.
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It was first published by Games Workshop in 1983 and the game designers were Gary Chalk and Ian Livingstone.
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- Playing Time: 90
- Designer: Gary Chalk
- Designer: Ian Livingstone
- Publisher: Äventyrsspel
- Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd.
- Game Category: Dice
- Game Category: Fighting
- Game Category: Racing
- Game Category: Science Fiction
- Game Mechanic: Modular Board
- Game Mechanic: Point to Point Movement
- Game Mechanic: Take That
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
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Battlebikes is a supplement published by Games Workshop in 1984 for the near-future post-apocalyptic combat board game Battlecars.
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