ADQ & A

1. Can vans, cars, etc., have tank treads?
2. Can weapon lasers be used as target lasers? At the same time?
3. Does one surge protector protect all electric components, or do you need to buy one for each?
4. Is there a maximum Handling Class for cars?
5. Can you have two or more Power Plants in a vehicle?

1. They may be half-tracked See Car Wars Tanks, p. 15. Half-tracks are AADA prohibited.
2. Yes and yes.
3. One surge protector protects everything.
4. No. There used to be, but the rule was dropped
5. No.

1. Are CA frames allowable on any vehicle except racing cars or other light-weight bodies?
2. Do CA frames increase chassis improvements or suspension costs?
3. Can you use platcats and superconductors on a chopper plant?
4. Can a T-Cat use platcats and superconductors?

1. All specially-built light-weight frames are considered to be CA frames. Carbon-aluminum frames are an option on any vehicle type.
2. Yes, both. A CA frame quadruples the body cost. Since chassis and suspension mods are a percentage of the body cost, these costs are also increased
3. Yes.
4. Yes.

1. Do Helicopter manoeuvre foils have 3 DP as per UACFH, or 15 as per ADQ 9/2?
2. Carplane tails have DP. Do other aircraft tails have DP?
3. Can carplanes or hoverplanes use manoeuvre foils?
4. In Tanks, are armor values for sample vehicle before or after sloping mods?
5. If I have an extra mag for a turret in the body of the vehicle, can the extra mag be destroyed by damage from the side, front or back that penetrates
6. If an extra magazine is the extra shots lost?
7. If an extra magazine for a turreted weapon is placed outside the turret, can it be component armored separately?
8. Does it still cost $500 to tune a LGL?
9. Do you need both an LGL and a standard or smart link to laser-guide rockets?
10. Can Gyroslugger shells use LGLs?
11. Is an LGL-equipped rocket totally different from a standard rocket, or is it just a change in the brain package?
12. How long would it take to remove an LGL unit to make the rocket normal?
13. If I want to use extra power cells in an electric powered aircraft, can I put the EPCs in the wings?
14. Can items in an aircraft's wings be destroyed before the wing is destroyed?
15. What armor location protects turrets on top or sides of an airship's gas bag?
16. Can jet-powered airplanes run electrical power-draining equipment?

1. 3 DP. The most recent ruling is always the most official.
2. No.
3. No.
4. After.
5. No, it can only be destroyed by attacks from the top.
6. Of course.
7. No, if you have a turret or an EWP with a magazine inside the body of a vehicle, you total the spaces taken up by the weapon and all extra magazines, and Figure the cost and weight of the component armor based on this total. The space for the component armor must come from inside the turret or EWP.
8. Yes.
9. Yes, you need to pay for a standard or smart link to each weapon or combination of weapons you wish to fire with laser guidance.
10. No. Gyrosluggers are not among those ped weapons that can be laser guided.
11. It's a standard rocket with a brain
12. This is a Very Hard job using Mechanic or Communications skill, or a Medium job using Electronics.
13. No.
14. No.
15. Top or side envelope armor
16. You need a laser battery

1. Does a 40' van trailer need two fire extinguishers, one in each section?
2. Can a bulk ammo box have its ammo directly loaded into the weapon, or is it just for cargo purposes?
3. Do both the semi and the trailer have to have HD brakes to get the bonus?
4. Can a hovercraft mount spoilers and airdams? How about a boat?
5. Can gas engines mount more than one turbo or supercharger?
6. Is a PFE a one shot item?
7. Can a cycle have more than one sidecar?
8. Can a ramplate be polished metal if the rest of the armor is different?
9. Can a 40' semi trailer mount an underbody turret?
10. Can a subcompact with sloped armor be concealed under a 40' semi trailer?
11. Can bumper triggers be linked to a turret?

1. No.
2. Just for cargo purposes.
3. Yes.
4. Hovercraft can't mount spoilers or airdams. Boats can have spoilers, but not airdams.
5. No.
6. No, shots are effectively infinite.
7. No.
8. A ramplate has to be the same as the front armor of the vehicle.
9. No.
10. No.
11. Yes, but the turret will fire in a random direction.

1. Can a gas tank be constructed in less than one-gallon increments?
2. Do extra mags count against extra spaces of weapons which can be corner mounted? How about CA?
3. Can dischargers be bumper triggered? Can they be comer mounted?
4. How does a flamethrower melt a patch of ice? Can incendiary weapons melt ice? How about lasers?
5. Do you get a -1 for firing the EWP of a sloped vehicle over and above the -1 for firing the E'WP itself?
6. Can I get a fake Sponson Turret? How about a pop-up/pop-out Sponson Turrets?
7. Can Sponson Turrets be corner mounted?
8. Can I get composite component/EWP/etc. armor?
9. Does a fake metal ramplate really cost and weigh the same as 5 points of metal armor?
10. Can a rifle-launched grenade be fired from an SMG?

1. No, because we know you wouldn't have asked if you didn't have something sneaky in mind.
2. Yes and yes.
3. Yes and no.
4. Flame throwers, flame clouds, flaming oil, cloud bombs, napalm and white phosphorous will melt ice on contact. Nothing else will.
5. No, because EWPs cannot be sloped.
6. There are no rules for such items yet. These sound like good Uncle Al's candidates.
7. Good god, no.
8. Yes, but remember your weight limit.
9. Yes, really.
10. No.

1. Are there rules for camper shells?

1. No, a camper body is a pickup with a camper shell.

1. Can a hovercraft have a ramplate?
2. Does an SD take up space if placed on the bottom of a hovercraft?
3. Are vehicles other than cars admitted in arenas?

1. Yes.
2. Sure.
3. Normally only cars, bikes and trikes.

1. What does a black hole dropper do?
2. Can tanks use Sponson Turrets?
3. Can helicopters use ICE, VP turbo, tubular headers and blueprinting, CA frames and Sponson Turrets, and can you mount a bomb on a helicopter weapon wing?

1. Drops black holes.
2. Yes.
3. Helicopters can not use gas engines or any gas-only accessories. Ah the other accessories you mention are legal. A helicopter cannot, however, mount both Sponsons and weapon wings.

1. If a vehicle with fireproof armor is hit by a flamethrower, is there a chance for the tire to catch fire?
2. Can a turret target another car's tires at point blank range?
3. Does a gunner take targeting penalties from the car's maneuvering?
4. With a gasoline engine, is a laser battery needed to run a targeting laser? What about radar?
5. Can EWPs be mounted front or back?

1. Only if the tires are specifically targeted
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes and yes.
5. Yes.

1. What is the penalty for targeting a pintle mount gunner or somebody whose window is down?
2. Does a roll-cage protect against collision damage?
3. Can cloud bombs be mounted on non-airborne vehicles?
4. Can a cyclist be protected by component armor?
5. Do cargo spaces count in determining 1/3 spaces per side?
6. Why get bomb bays when links are cheaper?
7. Do hatchets really do full damage to vehicles when no other blade does?
8. How are tracked vehicles and half-tracks affected by slopes, as per the jumping rules in UACFH?
9. What happens when you go over a vehicle's chassis limit?
10. Why buy Communications skill when Electronics skill includes everything in communications and more?

1. Pinrle mount gunners are targeted as a pedestrian in water, -5. You cannot target through a window in Car Wars.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. Some people will buy anything...
7. Yes, really.
8. Tracked vehicles jump as cars. Remember that tracked vehicles cannot have a top speed of more than 100 mph.
9. You can't enter combat with an over-weight vehicle.
10. If your campaign allows the Electronics skill, there's no reason except pure roleplaying to take Communications instead