How would a highway encounter go?

A three car convey tries to make its way from Austin to Houston. The black van is the objective for the attackers.

In the pick at the bottom are the three vehicle convoy. The other vehicles in the picture need to take immobilize the black van.

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   So.......   this blog has been neglected and needs to be updated at some point.

I've done tons of gaming in the last few years, and not much has been added to this blog. I hope to update it at some point.

For the last few months a small group here in Austin has gotten together to game.

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http://atxgamers.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

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Highway Slugfest

We played a highway attack scenario the other day. Four cars attempt to immobilize a bus and it's two escort vehicles. It's easy to see why highway duels are so deadly. It's easy to hit when you are travelling at the same speed going in the same direction. Also, travelling at speeds around 80 mph make manuevers difficult, at that speed you can't go much lower than 0 HC without rolling on the control table.

The attackers:
Conestoga, Timeshifter, Pisces, and Bombardier

The Rabbits:
Joseph Special, Pirahna, Slugfest

The attackers fall upon the bus and escorts from the rear.

The Bombadier and Pisces quickly engage the Slugfest on its right side, the Timeshifter and Connestoga move to attack the Joseph Special. The Bombardiers large antitank gun soon rips a hole in the Slugfests side hitting the engine, but the Bombardier doesn't last long at that close range and its driver is killed from RR fire.

The Slugfest after taking evasive actions and using HD smoke on auto to protect its right side. The Pisces has to shift to the Slugfests left which hasn't been touched. With dual mg's the Pisces starts to work on the Slugfests left armor, but is taking heavy fire.

The Pisces takes damage to its engine and catches on fire. It driver has only seconds to live. It then hits spikes, looses two tires, and spins while the driver burns to death

"The Rubberway Arena" at Milleniumcon

One of our local gaming conventions just came and went. I ran another Car Wars event which turned out quite well. I made a miniature version of the Akron Ohio "Rubberway" arena. I like the theme I have created the last two years, both years I have done 3D versions of actual arenas listed in official Car Wars books. I keep thinking about doing the Armadillo, but it seems daunting, maybe next year.

Lots of Car Wars Gaming

Arthur made it to Austin and he and Phillipe and I got together a couple of days and managed to get in 5 games of Car Wars. We did four arena events and one raid on a big rig.

Three people playing Car Wars is a good number. I've never controlled more than one car at a time, but since we were all fairly experienced players we controlled two or three in all games. I like the feel of this as you are always in the action.

This ended up being an all time favorite weekend of Car Wars gaming for me. I got to try a highway scenario, had my first event in the Double Drum, saw how cycles work, and Arthur gave me a few maps that he created. I will post on the maps coming up, these things are incredible.

Below is a link to the Arthur's writeup of our Double Drum arena event.
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/584113/lothariochimaera-team-event-at-double-drum

Here's a shot if the Double Drum:

Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem

These pictures were taken about 8 years ago and this was my first project after a long hiatus from gaming. In the 80's in Maine at a local convention someone use to run massive fantasy battles using mostly Ral Partha figures. His games were probably three or four times the size of the one in the pictures below. Fielding my own game like this had always been a dream of mine, and when I started to get back into gaming the first thing I did was hit Ebay and buy quite a few old Ral Partha figures. I began collected them for years and these pictures show probably half my of what I have collected. I have to salute Ral Patha for what they did for gaming. They had some excellent sculptures and to this day I think their 80's fantasy line captures my picture of a fantasy world filled with goblins and orcs better than much of what is out today.

This battle was held when I was living in San Franciso. The game took place at Jon and Warwick's apartment named Game Central. I had been painting these troops for a few years and this was the second time the majority of them hit the table. They haven't been used since and have been in storage for about 7 years.

The game rules we used were TSR's Dungeons & Dragons Battlesystem. I have no idea why these rules didn't manage to capture gamers attention longer. The second edition rules streamlined the combat. The morale and movement and much else just worked with no suprises and I think you got out of them what you would expect.