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Originally Posted by JimTullis
Yes, BUT posters are available at 2ft x 3ft as well.
I think SJ Games may have chosen this so that people could print arenas on standard US letter stock. EXCEPT printers rarely print on the full sheet, so tiling an arena would still require more that 8 sheets.
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2 things that are more likely, since, as noted, very few people had a printer at home in the early days of Car Wars, and there was never any distribution of map files.
1. SJ went with the size that their print shop was set up to run, which happened to be 22 x 34. (This is why early Magic: the Gathering card sets were the size they were. Carta Mundi printed cards on a particular sheet. I think 11 cards X 10.)
2. There was some need to print on that size because of folding requirements. Either that's the size the folding equipment worked with, or that's the size that could be neatly folded to fit in the available bags.