Hi All,
I have pulled together a big photo collection of painted Battlecars
from the out-of-production Games Workshop range. It would be nice to
see a Company developing a new range of these great figures, the detail at 6mm
scale is fantastic for the age of the models.
Please have a browse over to the photos.
Link: http://www.rottenlead.com/wordpress/2007/05/15/battlecars-
by-gamesworkshop/
Short version of the link for links destroyed by Yahoo: http://
tinyurl.com/2aqefp
-The models can be picked up on ebay at over £1 a model and often fetch
a lot more, I spotted one auction at around $30 for only 5 of the tiny cars.
Really? I think I've a box or two around here; I do recall the metal stuff was
pricey.
-Big money for the size of each 6mm model! You can also usually find the
rules on ebay which can cost up to £40.
I thought psuedo-Matchbox was closer to 1/87, or even 1/72, which is
more like 15mm, or even 'real' 25mm, right?
I remember you could take the spare weopens off the sprue and put them on
Matchbox/Dinky/Hot Wheels, and rock and roll.
Wish the expansion did as well as the box set. ;->=
The_Beast
Robin wrote on 05/15/2007 04:57:35 PM:
> Hi All,
Hi
I don't remember GW doing a range of battle cars or actually doing the game
battle cars. I thought that was Steve Jackson.
GW did do a car wargame called Dark Future involving 15mm cars going racing
down highways in arizona.
The novels that supported the dark future game are being rereleased by Black
Flame publishing.
Are you sure the models are GW are they plastic or metal?
> ---- bilgepipe@mac.com wrote:
> see a Company developing a new range of these great figures, the
> At 3:07 PM +1200 5/16/07, <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Umm, does anyone remember Car Wars? There were figures for that.
> On 5/15/07, john_tailby@xtra.co.nz <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> I don't remember GW doing a range of battle cars or actually doing the
Nope, that was Car Wars.
Battlecars was a GW game. I used to own it. It was probably the simplest game
in the whole car combat genre. If I remember correctly
it was played in a sort of arena/city block as opposed to the open
highways of Car Wars. I think I sold it, but I sort of wish I had it as my son
would have enjoyed it. I do remember, rather vividly, one of the cars having a
weapon bay on one side and I mounted a missile there by simply placing a
missile counter on top of the boxes. Car building was literally that simple:
fill in the boxes on the car's status sheet by placing counters representing
weapon mounts.
The game predates Dark Future. It even predates Rogue Trooper, Dungeonquest,
and the Dracula game GW published. It came out during a period when GW was
licensed to sell Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest, and White Dwarf actually had
Traveller and D&D articles.
I don't remember there being metal or plastic cars for it though. I DO know
there were metal and plastic cars for Dark Future.
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still play. We use Matchbox cars with either
self-sculpted weapons or stuff liberated off of the click
Battletech tanks. That and a little airbrushing and it looks and plays great.
Oh, we play without a grid, not a big deal.
SJG has a new version out, we tried it and it works fairly well but the design
system was never published so we play old style.
If you want to play we often do a $10K pickup game at DC. Make a car or we can
provide one. Heck, if you can find or sculpt a Matchbox Ferret you can play
that.
Roger
Car wars had two seprate lines of minis. They're both out of prink. I got
both. GZG makes some civi cars in 300th scale.
> --- john_tailby@xtra.co.nz wrote:
> Hi
http://www.rottenlead.com/wordpress/2007/05/15/battlecars-
> > by-gamesworkshop/
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> At 5:38 AM -0400 5/16/07, Roger Books wrote:
Heh, Metal armor, Machine gun, extended ammunition, basic targeting, 4 Wheel
Drive, blue printed 4 Liter IC engine, heavy duty transmission, Run flat heavy
duty tires, smoke grenade launchers. It even has stowage
for personal driver and gunner's weapons. ;-)
Or did you mean I should just bring the ferret itself to the game? :-D
Sounds alot like Carwars.
> --- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 5:38 AM -0400 5/16/07, Roger Books wrote:
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