Wish List for Car Wars version 4.0

[Old Man]

My first wish would be for one, mostly errata-free, canonical version to be printed. We quit playing Car Wars when we couldn't muddle through the errata and editions to determine what happened if you fired a flamethrower forward while traveling over 20MPH.

My second wish would be for the damage system to be thrown away and started over. When CW was a beer-and-pretzels pocket box game it was okay for MGs to do 1d6, RRs to do 2d6 and so forth, with bizarre ablative armor effects. Today it's a milsim, and the damage mechanics have to be more in line with reality. A .50 caliber machine gun today is a heavy weapon that will lay waste to anything on four wheels. A minigun is nearly useless against metal armor and utterly devastating against anything else. And so on.

The maneuvering system is pretty good and ought to be left alone.