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Gaming Disasters... Part III
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So I'd gotten off to a rocky start with my new Car Wars game. I'd designed cars and made up a corporation, but hadn't really played much.
All of my friends liked the game and had bought stuff for it. Dueltrack was out-- as was the lime green Uncle Albert's. Too cool! One of my friends had bought Muskogee Fairgrounds and another had all of the full color off-road supplements.
So my two friends had both made up Corporations, too. And they wanted to have a big fight. It was agreed that they'd meet on a stretch of road. I remember just before we staged it, one of my buddies was marking up his character sheets with extra experience points. Of course, he used different pens to make it look like he'd been playing tons of duels!!
Finally the day arrived. Several 18-wheelers rolled down the highway towards each other. A detachment of gas powered pickups broke away from the formation and zoomed ahead. As the forces clashed, the pickups jumped over their enemy's 18-wheelers. While they were directly overhead, tons of grenades began rolling out of their beds!
Then the arguments ensued. "There's no way that can work!!" As referee I ruled a compromise decision and stated that the grenades only did a small amount of damage. (We were using a lot of pretend rules and hand-waving still.)
So the shooting continued and when the dust settled, the guy with the gas pickups had lost.
Funny... he and I didn't play much after that....
So I'd gotten off to a rocky start with my new Car Wars game. I'd designed cars and made up a corporation, but hadn't really played much.
All of my friends liked the game and had bought stuff for it. Dueltrack was out-- as was the lime green Uncle Albert's. Too cool! One of my friends had bought Muskogee Fairgrounds and another had all of the full color off-road supplements.
So my two friends had both made up Corporations, too. And they wanted to have a big fight. It was agreed that they'd meet on a stretch of road. I remember just before we staged it, one of my buddies was marking up his character sheets with extra experience points. Of course, he used different pens to make it look like he'd been playing tons of duels!!
Finally the day arrived. Several 18-wheelers rolled down the highway towards each other. A detachment of gas powered pickups broke away from the formation and zoomed ahead. As the forces clashed, the pickups jumped over their enemy's 18-wheelers. While they were directly overhead, tons of grenades began rolling out of their beds!
Then the arguments ensued. "There's no way that can work!!" As referee I ruled a compromise decision and stated that the grenades only did a small amount of damage. (We were using a lot of pretend rules and hand-waving still.)
So the shooting continued and when the dust settled, the guy with the gas pickups had lost.
Funny... he and I didn't play much after that....
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