2048 World Championship Results

21 September, 1998 - Mines, flaming oil, lasers, blast cannons, incendiary rockets and confetti: this year's championships had them all. The podia could only hold three people each though, and here they are.


In the Racing Championships, Sumit Sakar was awarded a special "Crash" award for taking out both his brother's and his own car, as well as filling the track with debris, when they ran out of room at the NW hairpin.

Some of you may remember Garth Anderson as last year's Duelling Champion. Sadly, two third places probably doesn't make up for losing that crown!

World Championships

09 September, 1998 - This year's AADA World Championships are only a few days away now and airships are carrying this year's competitors in from every corner of the earth. Good luck to each and every one of them, and let's hope their Gold Cross payments are up to date.

For anyone who hasn't heard yet, both the Duelling and Racing championships are being held at Tacticon in Denver, Colorado. For more details, including the structure of the qualifying rounds and an excellent compilation of rules Question and Answers, take a look at the World Championship Web Site.

We'll let you know the results as soon as the dust settles.

On another note, some people have been asking what they can look forward to on the web pages in the future. First off will probably be a complete revamp of the links in the Blasts from the Past page, after that look for a definitive description of the rules for championship autoduels, and just a little further down the road is a complete review of each vehicle's arcs including some which have never been properly defined.

World Championships: Important Announcement

July 09, 1998 - It looks like ASP have intercepted some of our previous announcements about this year's World Championships.

Both Duelling and Racing Championships will be held at Tacticon as we have previously said, but Tacticon is being held between September 11-13 not 17-22.

Because the time available will no longer permit the running of the 5 rounds originally planned, the format of the championships will also be changed.

For the latest news keep your sights locked onto the AADA World Championship site.

Deluxe Car Wars Reprint, NOVA Online, World Championships

June 20, 1998 - A lot of fans have been asking when this would happen, and it now has...
Deluxe Car Wars has been reprinted. The new edition includes a copy of the Car Wars Compendium, and enough maps and counters to accomodate even the grandest scenarios. It is also the first of the Car Wars products to be given its own on-line description.

NOVA Online
The experts at NOVA have also set up a page to share their years of experience with us. Though there are a multitude of articles, arenas and scenario ideas, with the World Championships fast approaching, the dozens of expert designs they have uploaded will be a boon to everyone.

World Championships
While on the subject of the World Championships, fans may also like to know that Michael Owen, the editor of the Car Wars Internet Newsletter, has htmlised several useful articles from Autoduel Quarterly which have not yet been added to our online archive. These detail variant rules which will be in force at the Championships, and design strategies.
Links to his htmlisations can be found in the June edition of the newsletter.

2048 Championships Finalised, Autoduel Japan

May 20, 1998 -

2048 Championships Finalised


This year, both the Duelling and Racing Championships will be held between September 17-20, 1998 at Tacticon in Denver, CO.

Details, including the structure of the qualifying rounds, are available at the World Championship Web Site.


Autoduel Japan
In the latest edition of Pyramid, Mike Montesa reports on the recent growth of autoduelling in Japan. His article contains both a local history of the sport, and a description of Japan's own variety of corporate Car Wars. You will, of course, need a subscription to access it.

2048 Championships Announced, Car Wars Internet Newsletter

March 16, 1998 - 2048 Championships Announced
The season has really been heating up over the last couple of weeks. The most important piece of news has to be the announcement of this location for this year's world championships.
This year both the duelling and racing championships will be held at TactiCon. The convention will be held September 17-20 at the Double Tree Hotel in Denver, Co.
All rounds of these events will be run in Matchbox (TM) or MicroMachine (TM) scale. You may bring your own miniatures as long as they conform to referee specs that will be released with the event details.
Watch this space for more information...

AADA News
The AADA News from Pyramid #29 have now been added to the AADA News archive.

High Velocity Duelling
James Barton has produced another impressive issue of High Velocty Duelling. HVD #8 contains variant rules for fire and explosion as well as all the regular items. Make sure you take a look at the vehicle design competition.
A related resource for duellists across the world is the Car Wars Player Listing which promises to become an essential tool when you're looking for some target practice.

Car Wars Internet Newsletter
The ubiquitous Michael Owen (see HVD #8) and Nathan Whitchurch of CRADA have resurrected the Car Wars mailing list. For more information about that, see the Car Wars Internet Newsletter.

Unofficial Pages
Michael has also set up a site for SWAT. At the moment, it's main content is probably the most comprehensive list of Car Wars and related links on the internet. Keep your sights on this one...

Elsewhere, the New World Autoduel Association have a site to support their corporate duelling season. Variant rules for corporate duelling, variable passenger weight and monster trucks are backed up by an expanding collection of arenas and numerous original vehicle designs.

Tournament Regulations and the Car Wars Web Ring

February 22, 1998 - Two new additions to our arsenal this February.

We now have an online copy of the Rules and Regulations for AADA-sanctioned tournament combat . These are primarily the rules printed in Autoduel Quarterly (ADQ) Volume 9 Number 1, but include variations instituted during the 1997 world championships.

Don't forget that the project to htmlise ADQ is ongoing and the completed issues can be found in the ADQ Archive .

Another interesting development for all of you duellists is the creation of a Car Wars Web Ring . It's still young, but there are already links to gaming clubs all around the world.

Does anyone have a spare gunner?

January 25, 1998 - January brings a new unofficial page from Patric Rogers.

Morpheus Unbound contains some of his original vehicle designs, unofficial errata to the AADA Vehicle Guides, Volumes 2 and 3, and a "gunner pool" for those days when a driver is just not enough.

'Tis the season to be duelling...

December 20, 1997 - December 2047 has seen a huge amount of activity on the autoduelling circuit. If this season's warm-ups are anything to go by, we're in for a tremendous season!

In England a company claims to be selling real meat in cans! There are rumours they have found a way to travel back in time, and are harvesting dinosaurs, but these are as yet unsubstantiated.
( Francis Greenaway's rules for dinosaurs and mini-subs )

There have been a number of additions to the Timewarp Tavern's Car Wars pages following the D.O.A.'s pre-season Div. 5 event. The most impressive is a VRML representation of Hammer Downs!

We have been alerted to a new set of rules for converting Car Wars into 3D using matchbox models.

High Velocity Duelling 7 is now available, including the results of the inaugural design competition, as well as features on snipers and racing.

Blast from the Past
The Associated Press reports that the late Mexican drug tycoon Amado Carrillo Fuentes played Car Wars. It doesn't say so in so many words... but he had a late-model Dodge Ram pickup with armor-plating, solid tires, a smokescreen, an oildropper, and a junkdropper.
-- Steve Jackson

Parting Shot
We've put the AADA Charter Application online, so now you don't need to send us a SASE just to get the form. Just print it out, fill out the info, and send it in with your charter dues, and you'll be an official AADA Chapter.

The Return of ADQ? and Car Wars in the Onion

November 08, 1997 - A couple of pieces of Car Wars news from the Daily Illuminator

The Return of ADQ?

A very committed Car Wars fan is interested in reviving Autoduel Quarterly. We'd like to see that happen . . . if there is really enough interest to make it worth everyone's effort. To that end, we'd appreciate your filling out Yet Another Web Poll to help us decide whether the magazine can return.
-- Steve Jackson

Car Wars in The Onion

In case you didn't know, The Onion is probably the best purveyor of satire in America today. They have a regular magazine, and a great online presence.

Anyway, we mention it here because a recent article mentions Car Wars and GenCon. Hey, any excuse to plug a cool site . . .
-- Scott Haring

New Resources

October 20, 1997 - Visitors both new and old will want to know that there are a few new links to Unofficial Car Wars pages.

Sean Peterson's Nexus RPG storehouse contains an Excel 95 workbook to aid in vehicle design and a very fancy arena section.

Associated with High Velocity Duelling is the Play by email Car Wars Duelling Circuit.

If you prefer something a little more edifying, the American Psychological Association recently published an article entitled " Car Wars: taming drivers' aggression". According to one of the researchers quoted 'To some people, their car is their moving castle.' Do they mean us?

1997 World Championship Results

September 08, 1997 - Now that the season is over, and the dust has settled on the duels which followed some of the results, we feel safe enough to bring you this year's Championship Results.

Well done to everyone who took part, and until next year...

Drive Offensively

New in our Auction

August 18, 1997 - Now up in our auction: a set of all four issues of the limited-issue Car Warriors comic we licensed to Marvel back in 1991. Excellent condition, in plastic holders. Donated by Micah Jackson.

1997 World Championships

May 12, 1997 - This year, there will be three:
More details are available in the latest AADA News from Pyramid #25.

HVD on our Web

April 30, 1997 - James Barton's High-Velocity Duelling webzine is now living on our new web server. This is a Car Wars webzine, with articles, autoduelling links and resources, etc. Check it out!

Car Wars Hits the Auction

April 6, 1997 - The great webserver auction enters Car Wars country. Lot 14, donated by Mike Hayden, is the first 22 issues of ADQ!

Lot 15 is the original pasteup boards for GURPS Autoduel Road Atlas 1.

And Lot 16 is the Car Wars card game playtest tests, some extra cards from the card game, and an AADA pin.

We're closing in on that new webserver; if you're a Car Wars fan interested in hard-to-find goodies (or, in the case of those pasteup boards, weird, unique and useless STUFF), drop in on the auction!