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Re: Childhood memories of making all town cars Road Warriors
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Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:12:40 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Chris Pederson writes:
I just pieced together an old set I made in like 1983 and suddenly had a
flashback of something I'd forgotten I used to always do (until obsessed
with non-town lines.  I used to make all the car chasis deals into road
warrior cars, all of them.  I'd put one of those large laser blasters behind
one of the doors, some kind of gun or laser on the front and have my Road
Warrior armies patrol the wasteland.  I used to do this so much I was
wondering if anyone else did.  I also fixed up a gun for my motorcycle of
course.

I was plunging into the depths of my dark ages when Mad Max came out. I was
very taken with those movies, though, and my high school friends and I spent
countless hours mimic'ing them by playing Car Wars.

Now, all we have to do is convince some Car Wars designing AFOL to port
Pirate Wars to Car Wars.

Heck, maybe for fun I'll make a few Car Wars type MOC's while watching
Junkyard Wars or BattleBots.

George



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  Re: Childhood memories of making all town cars Road Warriors
 
(...) It's really pretty much already done-- Car Wars is a very easily adaptable system to larger scales. I'd suggest simply going with a scale of, say, 6 or 8 studs = 1/2 inch in Car Wars terms and then go build the vehicle you designed in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)
  Re: Childhood memories of making all town cars Road Warriors
 
(...) You could easily use BrikWars to mimic Car Wars, if you instituted some house limits on Tech Level, weapon size, etc. www.brikwars.com eric FUT lugnet.fun.gaming (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.town, lugnet.gaming)

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  Childhood memories of making all town cars Road Warriors
 
I just pieced together an old set I made in like 1983 and suddenly had a flashback of something I'd forgotten I used to always do (until obsessed with non-town lines. I used to make all the car chasis deals into road warrior cars, all of them. I'd (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)

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