Now, on to the meat! I absolutely can NOT understand why there is no ‘turbo boost’ esque equipment, so my 10 year old stepson and I brainstormed one. The text below is an alpha for your alpha but it blends what I feel is a good cost-to-benefit ratio in it.

NOS Injector
Heavy
Type: Induction
Points: 20
Range: 0
Rounds: 4
Effect: This vehicle’s Speed Rating is now 100. An the controller’s next Acceleration Phase this vehicle may not have a Speed Rating of less than 80. Vehicle’s SR may be set as normal two turns after use of this equipment.

We think that taking up a heavy slot, coupled with the low cost and beneficial/negative effects of a quick speed boost make this a tasty treat for the match. Let me know what you think!

We’re playing our first match on tomorrow, once I finish painting the cars. I’ll create as detailed a picture post as I can, so be ready!

Note; For all you MW:AoD players out there: Ravager Battle Armour provides some scale perfect machine guns. Hellion Mechs provide convincing looking Masers. And either Firestarters, or Construction Mech MODs provide great NOS/Smoke/Oil tanks.

Regarding the spin facing question, your interpretation is correct. Although I see your friend’s point of view, to do it otherwise would require marking off the original facing, and figuring out what happens when a car moves sideways. Ie, the added complexity outweighs the benefits of realism in that case.

The same could be said for weapon firing arcs. I wanted to keep combat incredibly simple, because I know there’d be some unavoidable complexity with the other stuff. So it’s basically, if someone is on my right side, I can shoot him with my ride side gun. We had this discussion at our big playtest, too. If it helps, feel free to imagine some kind of swivel mount.

So, I’m approaching rules revisions sort of like open source software. Later this week I’ll post some proposed rules changes and “bug fixes.” Following comments, I’ll put out a new release of the pdf.

Some of our observations:
-2 Players with 2 cars each.
-”Build” time: ~30 minutes
-Play time: ~1.5 hours

-The Howitzer feels “too good”. It has respectable range, power, ammo, cost, and attack bonus, and while there are weapons that beat it in every category, it feels like any driver without a howitzer or two is a fool.

-The skidding rules are unclear as to the direction of the shift component. We tried to base this off the direction you were turning when you went into a skid, but the rules don’t say how to determine the direction you skid (that we saw).

-There is an inconsistency in the spinning rules regarding the control modifier (it says +15 in the text and +10 in the example).

-When spinning, are you to continue movement in the direction you are currently (randomly) facing, or in the direction you were moving when you started? We read it as the first. I loved this because it felt totally uncontrolled (and led to entertaining secondly crashes), but my buddy felt like it was “unrealistic”. Of course, that’s what I get for playtesting with a Physics major…

-There were times when a weapon’s 180-degree firing arc didn’t feel “right”, at the extreme corners of the firing range. *shrug*

I think we had a couple of other observations, but I don’t recall them at the moment. I’ll check my notebook later and post anything that looks helpful. Thanks for all the great work, I’m already planning an elaborate battle arena.

Looking forward to seeing how it turns out. I’m hoping to get another game of this in tonight with my son, still trying to come up with an easy way to handle collisions myself.

You are welcome – thanks for putting out Death Race for us to play with!

Art

They look ready made for this type of game…

Maybe once you decide direction. Move the dial one to the right for one car, and then one spot to the left for the other, so they will be seperated.
Or one spot on the dial in the direction they were originally going?

Then throw in a control check and a possible spin. Would you keep the 1d4 inches of separation? Cars don’t stick together when they hit each other, they bounce and move in different directions.

Agh, so complicated.

So if you hit a car that was not moving at all, you would go in a straight line.

I don’t know. It would need some work, but its an idea.

Something really quick and easy like that would be best.

Anyhow, just a thought.