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Old 09-26-2020, 10:17 PM   #2
baakyocalder
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Sacramento metro, California
Default Re: Suggested 6th Edition Bundle(s) for five player household ?

First off, is that about $300 U.S. dollars including shipping and your import taxes, or a different amount?

The core game set is for four players. That should be $125 non-Kickstarter or Backerkit. It includes four dashboards and enough dice and counters for four players as well as enough cards for four players to each be able to have a copy of each card to use in the design. With 12 different miniatures, you can each play a variety of miniatures (note that the cards determine your build-the miniatures are just for playing).

To add another 2 players, you're looking at the '$75 core game,' which is the 2-player set or one of the two player packs which say they are $40. The player packs are red/yellow and blue/green. Those give you five cars, 2 bases, 2 dashboards, and cards. I'd probably add a rules pack to the 'player packs' to ensure lots of dice and counters.

You say five players, but the game is set for six. Based on the discussions at Fnordcon, playing a bunch of players in an event at a time will make it take longer. All five of you playing at once could make a game taking closer to 2.5 hours to finish barring a lot of bad rolls for one player.

Point totals will make a big difference in play time for longer games--just like cost of vehicles did in prior editions. If everyone is running a cheap, easily destroyed vehicle, then the battle will be faster than if you have medium and higher cars that can take a few hits.

Also, since the core set doesn't come with a playmat, consider those as an option to improve the game. The scale of older Car Wars material is such it won't work with the new models, which are about the size of Matchbox cars and similar toy cars.
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