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Old 12-20-2020, 07:20 PM   #3
baakyocalder
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Sacramento metro, California
Default Re: Comments on Rulebook from KS Update 84

Sixth edition is a very different version of the game than other editions.

It's going to be car models and focus on the car on car carnage rather than all the building rules of the compendiums.

You'll take your stack of cards and point budget and then build the car using those cards. Different gear costs a different amount of points and there will be facing rules and a limit on how big the guns are based on point totals, and how many of different types of gear you can have on one side (down to 4 sides with no top or bottom).

The videos on the Steve Jackson Games Youtube channel give you a clear vision of the game.

It's Car Wars, but you're going to spend more time at the table playing and less time building because you don't have to balance all the weight and power and handling and space concerns.

The game is designed for 2-4 players and the main full set will have enough for 4 players to go at it simultaneously or break up into a pair of 2-player games. Figure half an hour per player, so a 4-player game should take around 2 hours unless you go with a big point design with lots of armor and defenses and roll poorly on attacks.

Motorcycles were an unlocked stretch goal, so they should be released at some point.

Right now there is no release date, but there's been good progress on the sample tooling despite Covid-19 delaying sample shipments and the inability of all SJ Games staff involved to safely gather in a room and see all the cool stuff.

I'm sure we'll get a release date once Steve Jackson Games has everything ready and can give us a reasonable estimate of shipment dates for backers and street dates for Warehouse 23 and gamestore orders. This is a big project and it's better to get it right than rush it.
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