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Originally Posted by SJF
Hi. New player here I am in need of a few rule clarifications for Classic Car Wars.
1) For "odd" speeds, it is only the phase you move 1/2" that you cannot maneuver, correct? At first I thought it mean't you couldn't maneuver on turns that you move odd speeds, but that didn't seem right. (Page 7)
2) If you can accelerate during any phase of a turn does it affect the distance you can move for the rest of the phases? For example, if you are going 25 mph and accelerate to 30 mph in phase 4, do you get the 1/2" increase in movement on phase 5 that the new speed allows? (Page 8)
3) A swerve is a 1/4" drift, followed by an angle turn. The example uses a 30 degree bend. Can any degree of bend be used for this maneuver? (Page 13)
That's all for now =) I'm still working my way through the rules, so I'm sure more questions will come up.
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Originally Posted by Racer
I'll try to answer them when I've got home & back online in 9 hours . Haven't my books with me at present .
To add to add to your Swerves Question :
4 Do Hard Swerves still exist ? That is a ½" to the side followed by x° Bend as +3 Difficultly Maneuver ? Text & Rules are very ambiguous & been wanting to find out if they're Official or not . We've used them as I described in a very few of our games . It's such s rarity though , either way is fine as it only has minor impact on gameplay .
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1. You cannot maneuver when making a half move. That move must be straight ahead. In your case, where you're slated to move one and a half, you can still maneuver during the full move and go straight on the half. (Keep in mind that if you have more than one full move, you can still only maneuver once each phase, the other full moves must be straight, but you can choose which one to make the maneuver on.) A bit of a grey area is whether you have to do the full move before the half move when you have 1.5 moves. Most groups I've gamed with have been ok with doing them in either order.
2. Think of phases as having 3 steps: Speed Change, Move, Firing. They always occur in that order for each phase. You can only change speed once per turn (5 phases) and fire once per turn per character, but the phase you choose to do so (if you do at all) is up to you. Speed changes made in a phase
do apply to the movement in the same phase.
3. Yes. Any angle of bend can be made into a swerve in this manner.
4. The original swerve and hard swerve (we're talking pocket box and original DCW) are essentially what are now a D1 and D2 Bend. (A Bend in that era was what is now a D3 Bend and a Tight Bend was the current D6 Bend, the D4 and D5 varieties didn't exist).
ADQ 6/2 and the Compendium reintroduced the Swerve as it exists now - combining a D1 drift with a bend in the opposite direction. The hard swerve never returned in the core rules. I suspect it is probably a local variant or some confusion about what the original hard swerve was.