Amateur Night Report - pics

[LokRobster]

Posted some pics on my picassa of our first CW event in many years --

http://picasaweb.google.com/lokrobster/CWStuff#

We used the 'Amateur Kart' [featured in a link on these forums, thanks!] for each of the four drivers, but used the 3x scale models we've been working on rather than actual sub-compact size cars or counters.

The Amateur Kart is a $2.6k vehicle with very light armor, micro-missile launcher front, and a debris dropper rear, and standard 4DP tires. All the vehicles lost at least 1 tire and a few were disabled move-wise because of debris vs. tire trouble. We went with this for simplicity for our first event, next time we'll do a division event [probably 10] and use the CW sets or player designed vehicles.

I liked the CW5 rules well enough, the super-simplified phases are nice - I can see how they cause collision-figuring problems, though! We're all pretty laid back and are more interested in fun than rules-lawyering; funny how much difference that makes.

The whole event lasted 7 seconds and covered about 2/3 of the arena area we laid down.

Enjoy the pics and accompanying report. o-]

[bosky]

Nice that looks like a fun match. Using the lighter, simpler cars always seems to be a hit in terms of speed of play, reduced complexity, and general chaos. I find players are less attached to cars under $5k, hehe. I use Killer Karts every now and then with 5th edition for that reason.

By the way I love that Mad Max 1 colored Interceptor. It looks like a well painted Falcon XB Hot Wheels car...or did I miss some awesome merchandising with the first movie?

[Kidnomicon]

yeah! the green car, Death a la Karte, wins by default!

the interceptor is a painted up hot wheel...... we got plans on doing a few more of em

this was our first run with the new rules..... would like to try some tougher cars.... ones that can drive over junk with out destroying tires.....

[LokRobster]

Originally Posted by bosky

Nice that looks like a fun match. Using the lighter, simpler cars always seems to be a hit in terms of speed of play, reduced complexity, and general chaos. I find players are less attached to cars under $5k, hehe. I use Killer Karts every now and then with 5th edition for that reason.

By the way I love that Mad Max 1 colored Interceptor. It looks like a well painted Falcon XB Hot Wheels car...or did I miss some awesome merchandising with the first movie?

yeah it's the new FalconXb Hot wheels car, that event was post-conversion with just a base coat of black. I've finished painting it now - i'll post some pics of the conversion in a bit :)

[LokRobster]

Originally Posted by LokRobster

yeah it's the new FalconXb Hot wheels car, that event was post-conversion with just a base coat of black. I've finished painting it now - i'll post some pics of the conversion in a bit :)

Links to photos of my conversion of the 2010 edition of the '73 xB -

http://picasaweb.google.com/lokrobst...nXBConversion#

HotWheels was cool enough to come out with a Jeep hotrod that has a huge blower and side pipes that make it a decent donor for making a v8 Interceptor.

I also made an album that has pics of a few more of the minis i've put together over the years, feel free to browse - or let me know if the links are inaccessible...

[Stoob]

hey that was my amateur kart design and record sheets i posted on here, glad you found them useful. i like the photos a lot. nice work