Yeah, we're a little late this issue. Several small things taken together led us to decide to ship this issue in October rather than September - I was finishing a book (GURPS Timeline, which should be available as you read this), and delaying the issue gave us a chance to include complete write-ups on the 2042 World Duelling Championships. ADQ 10/4 will be out right on time though, in December.
Getting It In Writing
I've been meaning to mention this for a while now. If you're a member of a chartered AADA chapter, you've seen the nifty, hand-calligraphed charter certificates that we send out to all chapters. Well, for the last year or so the person who's been doing our calligraphy is my lovely and talented wife. Lynette Alcom.
Lynette doesn't take any money for her calligraphy work, so when you renew your charters, you might want to say a quick "thanks" to Lynette. I'11 pass it along.
Doing It on Disk
Grand Master Duellist Mike Montgomery has recently finished his authorized Car Wars Vehicle Design program for the IBM. (A Macintosh version has been available for several months.)
I haven't had as much time to play with it as I'd like, but this is a nifty program, taking care of all the pesky accounting stuff that can make vehicle design such a chore. The program comes ready to create any vehicle possible with the rules from the Car Wars Compendium, Second Edition, and it's easy to edit in your custom gadgets or any variant components you might want to include.
This is the only authorized, official vehicle generation program for Car Wars. No serious duellist with a computer should be without one.
To order Mike Montgomery's Car Wars Vehicle Designer, send $29.95 plus $3 for shipping to: Abacus Software, 1906 Bird's Nest Court, Cedar Park, TX 78613. Remember to specify IBM or Mac.
-CWM
Right now we're working on our 1993 schedule, and there are several exciting Car Wars projects in the wings.
Car Wars 3-D remains the third phase of our miniatures-gaming partnership with Ral Partha, right after Ogre Miniatures (out now - and a major hit at this year's GenCon/Origins) and the exciting new Hot Lead generic combat system (look for it early in the new year). Car Wars 3-D will follow a few months after Hot Lead.
We've just concluded an agreement with GHOST, the hot, young AADA chapter that's dominated the last two AADA World Championships (see next page), to produce an arena book. We're still working on the details, but expect this book to include more exciting, all-new arenas than The Car Wars Arena Book and L'Outrance combined.
Craig Sheeley is taking a very brief vacation from Car Wars to write an adventure for the upcoming GURPS Horror Adventures (though he still found time to write this issue's cover feature). Once that's done, he'll be turning his attention to Chassis and Crossbow.
GURPS Vehicles is now scheduled for a February release. Once it's out, we'll get right to work on GURPS Autoduel, Second Edition.
And don't forget next issue is the big 10th-anniversary issue of ADQ. I can't promise any specifics right now, but this one is going to be special.