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Battlecars (1983)

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Year Published
1983
# of Players:
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, more than 4 players
(3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
(no votes yet)
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Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Battlecars
Alternate Names
Combat Cars
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Families
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A futuristic game of deadly driving. Have you ever pressed the imaginary button on the dashboard of your car to vaporize the idiot driver's car in front ?
BATTLECARS is a game in which 'road rage' takes on a whole new meaning. Vent your frustration on other players by arming your car with machine guns and rockets. Watch in glee as cars explode into fireballs. Drive on and smile as the next target comes into range. Set the gunnery computer and squeeze the trigger - then BOOM!
How long can you survive in the deadly arena of the future ? Do you have what it takes to be a highway warrior ?
Only by playing BATTLECARS, with its unique simulation of driving skill and combat, will you ever find out.

More Information Edit | History

The art for the box was done by famous sci fi illustrator Jim Burns.

The Swedish edition from 1986 has development credits to Anders Blixt, Fredrik Malmberg and Olle Sahlin, and has additional art credits to Steven Hägg, Nils Gulliksson and Göran Eriksson. It also has an age recommendation of 14+ instead of 12+.

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1 Micro Machine Scale Trees
This is a reworked set of board plans for the Games Workshop 'Battlecars'. The idea is to print as many of as you want, cut them up and piece together however you want. These are specifically scaled to 'N'Gauge, or 1/148 (sometimes 1/160) or Micro machines scale.
2009-11-02
1 Micro Machine Scale Buildings Tarmac
This is a reworked set of board plans for the Games Workshop 'Battlecars'. The idea is to print as many of as you want, cut them up and piece together however you want. These are specifically scaled to 'N'Gauge, or 1/148 (sometimes 1/160) or Micro machines scale.
2009-11-02
1 Micro Machine Scale Buildings 2
This is a reworked set of board plans for the Games Workshop 'Battlecars'. The idea is to print as many of as you want, cut them up and piece together however you want. These are specifically scaled to 'N'Gauge, or 1/148 (sometimes 1/160) or Micro machines scale.
2009-11-02
1 Micro Machine Scale Buildings 1
This is a reworked set of board plans for the Games Workshop 'Battlecars'. The idea is to print as many of as you want, cut them up and piece together however you want. These are specifically scaled to 'N'Gauge, or 1/148 (sometimes 1/160) or Micro machines scale.
2009-11-02
3 Synchronised movement rules for Battlecars
With the standard Battlecars rules, players take turns: each car moves its full movement al­lowance separately while the others wait. Here, instead, the game round is divided into nine segments, and the faster a car is moving, the more of the segments it gets to move on. Everybody moves in parallel.
2009-07-24
6 Universal Head BATTLECARS Rules Summary and New Templates
The Universal Head BATTLECARS Rules Summary/Reference Sheet and completely redrawn car, bike and pedestrian templates. Perfect for laminating and using a whiteboard marker to mark damage. In two versions: color-coded and 'classic blue'. Includes special speedometer design!
2009-06-27
2 Battlecars_chairs v2
Cards for the Battlechairs. Formated using UniversalHead's design. Version 2, for people using the updated versions of UniversalHead's sheets (color matches these new versions) (and I made a minor correction as well).
2008-01-26
4 Cards for the Battlechairs. Formated using UniversalHead's design.
Huge thanks to UniversalHead for his design and permission of use. Huge thanks to Rob Robinson for uploading the original rules and cards in the images section.
2008-01-24
3 Battletrucks rules
My brother and I are in the middle of playtesting these rules we have put together. The file contains rules for using trucks in Battlecars. I got all enthusiastic about the game again after getting a copy for Christmas (E-bay is cool). So here are the rules, cards and playing pieces for trucks. I know I am not the first person to create such rules but I cannot find any on the web. Please feel free to look at them, read them and even play them. Any criticism good or bad will be greatfully recieved and I will update the rules again later. I will also set up a thread in the forum for people to make comments. A lot of the images come from pictures and files from boardgamegeek so thanks to you all for uploading all that stuff. Cheers Toffer
2008-01-01
3 Battlecars - Cyberboard Version by Rob Robinson (zombiegod)
Battlecars v1.2 with Scenario.
2007-03-02
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 2171
Wargame Rank: 811
Num Ratings: 205
Average Rating: 6.24
Standard Deviation: 1.38
Num Views: 25960
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.9 moreinfo
Fans: 3
Personal Comments: 82
Users Owning: 302
Users Wanting: 19
Users Trading: 20
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 0
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Total Plays: 68
Plays This Month: 2
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Num Ratings 36
Average Rating 6.33
Average Weight 1.83
Owned 77
Prev. Owned 3
For Trade 6
Wanted in Trade 11
Wishlist 11
Comments 13
Year Pub. 1984
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