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Car Wars Compendium

#13354BGG ↗

1989 · 2-8 players · 45min · weight 3.28 · 342 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

BGG raw

ID
13354
Name
Car Wars Compendium
Year
1989
Rank
6216
Min players
2
Max players
8
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
3.2759
Num weights
29
Bayes avg
5.7028
Average
7.1686
Users rated
342
Num owned
829
Wanting
6
Wishing
34
Num comments
96
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Hexagon Grid
Categories (3)
BookRacingScience Fiction
Description (1224 chars)

The complete rules in one volume. Now, all your Car Wars rules can be found in one book—The Car Wars Compendium. Included are the rules from Car Wars Deluxe Edition, Boat Wars, Dueltrack, and the Uncle Albert's Catalogs through 2039—as well as clarifications, improvements, and new rules from the pages of Autoduel Quarterly, streamlined for faster play. Design your own cars, cycles, trikes, vans, trucks, 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs, boats, helicopters and hovercraft! The Car Wars Compendium is organized and indexed for easy reference, and includes 8 extra pages of charts and tables! Three versions of the Car Wars Compendium were published: Car Wars Compendium (first edition, 1989) Blue cover – Essentially combines the rules for cars, trucks and cycles from prior editions into the Third Edition of Car Wars Car Wars Compendium: Second Edition (1990) Blue cover – Revises the first edition with errata and adds race cars from Dueltrack; becoming the Fourth Edition of Car Wars Car Wars Compendium: Second Edition (fifth printing, 1996) Black cover – Adds more detailed errata, and almost all new artwork. Often referred to as CWC2.5 Part of the Car Wars Series.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.