Glenn Jupp's Blog (11)

I'm not at all certain why I came back here. Less so why I was away for so long. In any case, I'm still on about Car Wars and am trying to coax others back into the autoduelling fold. I'm hoping that offering homemade cookies will work, at least at the local game club. And a trophy, too. A real, physical, don't-put-your-eye-out-kid trophy. Still on about Car Wars played via Vassal, to… Continue

Dueltrack arrived on my doorstep today. I know most everything in it is out of date, but I wanted it for the Chassis & Crossbow rules. The box was still in the original shrink-wrap. With a vandalistic thrill of excitement I tore it apart and lifted the lid. There was the rulebook, but behind it... - Two big sheeets, the maps of Autoduel America. - A big counter sheet that I don't recognize. No, not the Dueltrack counters, those were further down. Perhaps these ar… Continue

Well, no. Not yet. I'm just getting started on planning the Town Squares ('cause I can't call 'em City Blocks, SJGames got there first). What follows are my musings and ramblings on the subject. Please feel free to make suggestions, corrections, demands, or whatever. I plan to hold to the 8" by 8" format for the map tiles, but I'm wondering about the spaces in between. Streets, obviously, but how wide? Two lanes? Three? Allow for both options? And if I correctly understand how the pieces would… Continue

Here's my entry to ShotGun's ad hoc game the other night. It's always bugged me that the Joseph Special was priced just a bit over division 10, so... EDIT - Made a mistake. Fixed now. Gives a bit more leeway for customizing. Joseph Mini - Compact, heavy chassis, improved suspension, medium power plant (forward) with platinum catalyst and superconductors, 4 heavy duty tires, driver, anti-tank gun forward, machine gun back, 5 paint dischargers (2 right, 2 left, 1 back), sing… Continue

So, I went and made a road sections extension for ShotGun's Vassal mod. People like it, and just want the ability to flip to debris littered versions of the sections. OK so far.

Except I get stuck on the point of making the debris look really good. I mean, it's debris! Can't I just relax about it? And then I get an even worse idea in my head. Why stop at the familiar old three-lane roads? Why not do up some two-lanes? Or narrow lane pieces?

Sigh...

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Finished adapting the Riverwalk Arena to Vassal - CW 3.0. Curious little arena. Not often you see a layout that blocks turret fire, but allows the body-mounted guns to connect. And the ramps could easily cause trouble if you're not careful. Find the mod at NADA - Yahoo. Find the excellent original at:

http://michael.casavant.us/CW/JC2002/index.htm

I can not thank Mr. Cassavant enough for his permission to do this.

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Please forgive my use of the third-person self-reference in the following report.

ACTION REPORT - CAR WARS, AMATEUR NIGHT

FCLife Autoduel Centre

London, Ontario

19th January, 2058

This FCLife Autoduel Centre is laid out as a rectangle with rounded corners. Each corner has a series of low, curving walls making fiv

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I know it's just getting the word out and promoting a game, but after cross-posting the same "last call" message for the Amateur Night at the FLAC to four different forums/groups, I feel a little dirty.

I think I'll go off and work on these Car Wars-scaled road sections for Games Workshop's Dark Future. Maybe that'll make me feel better.

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Spent Sunday evening reworking my little autocombat website, on the theory that I'm probably gonna keep making stuff for downloading and should have it organized and presented all shiny like. Turns out I missed an invitation to a duel from ShotGun Jolly.

Now, which would have been more fun?

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Well, I've taken the plunge and announced to the world that I'll be running a game of Car Wars on VASSAL. Which means I'll have to finish up the last details of the map, straighten out my notes on the arena and event, set the vehicle designs, turn it all into an .MDX file and post it.

THAT in turn means I'll have enough stuff on my little webpage to make it worthwhile to divvy it up and make a half-decent website out of it

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If I don't get any of the following done in a reasonable length of time, please feel free to demand to know what's wrong with me, or point and laugh, or whatever.

1. Expand the map for the FCLife Autoduel Centre to include the pit areas, grandstands, concessions & offices, etc., or at least a decent portion of the stuff surrounding the arena proper.

1 and a half. Actually play a game via Vassal on the

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