Car Wars in 2033

General Theory of CW GMing and play style

Avoid the more advanced rules like: Ram Plates, Gas Engines, Metal Armor, weapons that do more than 3 Dice of damage in one shot, and anything that allows your car to make tight bends at 120 mph. As time went on, CW evolved into a game where guns were useless and it was too easy to design a vehicle that could ram another vehicle at 130mph, drive through it, and keep going to do it again. To have the most fun with CW, stick to things like MGs, HRs, RLs, targeting computers, and pedestrians with grenades. If things are kept simple, CW is great fun. Once you start driving cars with +10 to hit x-ray pulse lasers in universal pop up turrets that can't hit the on coming 230mph ram car, and even if you could, he has laser proof armor, you have entered a realm that should not exist, and isn't much fun anyway.
The best cars usually cost between $10k-$30k. At this level of money, the designs tend to balance out better. The more expensive the car, the less money as a balancing point becomes valid.
Towns and goofy arenas are generally the most fun to play in. As long as there are corners to go around and break line of site, combat will be interesting. Fighting on a racetrack can be boring because you spend a lot of time very far apart, and a big empty parking lot arena combat just ends up a big mess in the middle. Midville is always fun, or you can just draw a big silly arena on graph paper.

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