Car Wars as a Convention Game and Newbies

[juris]

Get rid of phased movement. Acceleration and braking at start of turn, firing at end. As an option, you can use phased movement if it actually matters, like someone trying to avoid a ramcar. Your combats will be 5x faster and just as fun. The new players won't object like the grognards here :).

[Jeffr0]

Originally Posted by juris

Get rid of phased movement.

I object...!

[philreed]

Originally Posted by juris

Get rid of phased movement. Acceleration and braking at start of turn, firing at end. As an option, you can use phased movement if it actually matters, like someone trying to avoid a ramcar. Your combats will be 5x faster and just as fun. The new players won't object like the grognards here :).

Yeah, I suspect a lot of people completely new to the game would be happy without phased movement. But without any number of phases things would have to get a lot more abstract.