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Car Wars (Fifth Edition)

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2002 · 2-2 players · 60min · weight 2.45 · 226 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
3183
Name
Car Wars (Fifth Edition)
Year
2002
Rank
13232
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.4545
Num weights
22
Bayes avg
5.54978
Average
6.1173
Users rated
226
Num owned
491
Wanting
7
Wishing
36
Num comments
94
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Dice RollingModular BoardRole PlayingSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (3)
RacingTransportationWargame
Description (730 chars)

The 5th Edition release of Car Wars. The combat rules have been simplified for faster play, and the scale has been increased to 1/60th making a lot of the calculations and movements easier. Part of the Car Wars Series, 5th Edition is not a single book, but rather a collection of comic-book sized books. Any of the Division sets (see below) is enough to get started. As of early 2009 there are still no official construction rules for 5th Edition, rather each book in the series has a number of pre-designed cars. However, in the online Car Wars forums at Steve Jackson Games' website, there are un-official but reliable vehicle construction rules posted and available for those who wish to "make their own" autoduel cars.

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.