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Car Wars Sixth Edition by Steve Jackson Games

Created by Steve Jackson Games

The original game of autoduelling returns! Jump into Car Wars Sixth Edition now! Features: * Custom plastic miniatures * Redesigned combat system * Individual player dashboards * Hundreds of ways to customize your car!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Shipping Continues, New Videos, and FnordCon
over 2 years ago – Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:33:37 PM

Welcome to Friday, gang, and another week of the Warehouse 23 team packing and shipping Kickstarter rewards! The Austin team has been hard at work getting the U.S. rewards shipped out as our fulfillment partner in Georgia also keeps shipping packages from their location. With two warehouses packing and shipping U.S. rewards, things are moving faster than if we had restricted the fulfillment process to Warehouse 23 alone. That said, this will not be a fast process; thank you for your continued patience. We'll post an update when all U.S. rewards have shipped.

New Videos

This week, Hunter coordinated and ran two gameplay videos. I sat in on one as Jimmie joined in the second. Both videos are on YouTube and you can watch them both today!


FnordCon

 Our online convention is coming up in just a few weeks, and we have two new Car Wars Sixth Edition projects set to reveal during the first day of the show. The online con is free to attend, and we hope that many of you will join us November 5, 6, and 7 for the event. You can learn more about the show here.

- Phil Reed

Add-On Shipping, Painting Video, FnordCon, and Warehouse 23 Pre-Orders
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:54:28 PM

Add-On Shipping

Just as a quick FYI, the Warehouse 23 team is starting to ship project add-ons. As detailed in this update, this will not be a fast process. Please read this update if you have any questions about the sequence of events. FYI: Playmats are still shipping. If you're in the U.S. and do not have your playmats, there's nothing to worry about. The team is working on it; this will not be a fast fulfillment process.

"First, we need everyone to understand that this will not be a fast fulfillment. Between the size and complexity of the project and the precautions to protect our team during a global pandemic, this will take months to complete. We will ship all rewards as quickly as we can manage, but we will need your continued patience. We will post an update once all rewards have shipped; until that update, we ask that you not contact us with "has mine shipped yet?" questions. Those types of questions will only delay everything."

New Video!

For those of you who have asked about painting the car miniatures, there's a new video online where you can watch Ben and learn from his painting tricks and technique.

FnordCon

We're less than a month from virtual FnordCon, our online convention, and Hunter and the team are prepping a round of Car Wars Sixth Edition content for the show.  Please click here to learn more about the upcoming event and we hope to see all of you join us that weekend for the show!

Car Wars Sixth Edition Pre-Orders

Did you miss an item or two during the BackerKit survey? Do you need extra dice for your table? Or maybe you want another copy of the rules to share with the players at the table? Car Wars Sixth Edition pre-orders are now open at our online store, Warehouse 23, and this is your chance to guarantee that you get your hands on those extras you may have missed during the BackerKit survey.

For those of you who selected the Double Ace rewards but neglected to add extra items to your survey, we want to single out a few specific items that you're sure to want as you and your friends dig into the game and look for more ways to destroy each other:

If you're enjoying the game and want to show your support, pre-orders are a big help to our operations and, better still, we've got a new Car Wars Sixth Edition book in the works that we're not quite ready to reveal. News to come! (Maybe we'll be ready to share a detail or two at FnordCon next month.)

Any Questions?

As always, our online help tool is the best way to get support and answers. Please note that the Warehouse 23 team is loaded down packing and shipping rewards, so answers will be slow coming. If you submit a support ticket, please be patient and the team will handle the request when possible. We will post an update when U.S. fulfillment is complete.

- Phil Reed

Update on missing tokens and a how-to-play video.
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 07:39:16 PM

NOTE: This only affects the four-player core game and the Double Ace box (because that same core game box is inside the Double Ace box). The two-player sets and all other expansions/titles are unaffected by this issue.

A factory error accidentally dropped a handful of tokens from the core game. The factory is working on printing the missing counters and will ship those to Warehouse 23. Our team will handle shipping the replacement counter sheet to all who were affected by these missing tokens. This only affects U.S. Kickstarter rewards; international rewards have not yet shipped and the replacement counter sheet will be inserted into international rewards before they are shipped.

For those of you in the U.S. who are affected by the missing counters, please be patient. Your counters will be shipped when they are ready (not until later this year); some of you will see the replacement sheet packed into your add-ons while others will receive a separate envelope with these counters. It all depends on the rate at which the warehouse can handle shipping the rewards; Kickstarter fulfillment will not be a fast process. We ask that you be patient; we will make an announcement when shipping is complete. 

Replacement counters.

How-to-Play Video

You're still learning the game? Thank you to Chris Steele for this excellent how-to-play video that should help many of you get a better handle on the Car Wars Sixth Edition game!

GURPS Girl Genius

In other news, we're back on Kickstarter next week with the latest GURPS hardcover, the Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game! If you've been waiting for this one, then we're happy to report that the book is almost ready for the printer. Please follow the new campaign today!

- Phil Reed

Shipping Update, Reporting Issues, Facebook Group, and Unboxing Videos
over 2 years ago – Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 09:51:14 PM

Our primary fulfillment warehouse in Georgia has completed shipping the first wave of Double Ace boxes to U.S. addresses and the Warehouse 23 team has added tracking information where available. Better still, we're seeing more and more reports of games reaching you, which makes our week far brighter. Thank you to everyone who has posted to let us know your giant Double Ace box has arrived.

What's next? More shipping! As Warehouse 23 continues to ship playmats, the Georgia warehouse is moving to the next stage of the shipping process. By dividing the fulfillment across two warehouses, we can move a tad faster . . . but this will not be a fast fulfillment job. It is going to take time, so please be very patient as the two warehouses do their best to get your rewards to you. As mentioned already, international fulfillment will start once we finish shipping U.S. rewards; and the international packages will taken even more time since they have to travel across the world.

Reporting Issues

For the moment, the Warehouse 23 team confirms that using the help system on our site is the best way to report issues. If you use this now, please understand that it will be some time before the team can address your issues. In yesterday's meeting, they confirmed that reporting issues through this tool is your best course of action. 

Before using the system, please read these updates and the comments, and please do not ask "has mine shipped?" questions or "I didn't get everything." Fulfillment continues and we ask for your patience. We will post an update when shipping is complete and that will be the time to say "I am missing an item." Please be patient; we're working as fast as we can while making sure the team remains as safe as possible.

Facebook Group

Would you like to talk about Car Wars Sixth Edition with other players? This unofficial fan group on Facebook is quite small at the moment, but we fully expect it to grow as more and more games reach tables.

Unboxing Videos

Do you want a peek inside the Double Ace box? Here are a few unboxing videos to keep you entertained while you wait for your box to arrive.



That's all for today, gang! We'll be back soon with more news of the ongoing fulfillment process.

- Phil Reed

Shipping Continues!
over 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 04:25:05 AM

We're a week into a monumental task, and U.S. shipping of the playmats and Double Ace boxes continues! We are not yet at the end of this stage of the fulfillment process, so please continue to be patient and we will get the game into your hands just as fast as we can manage.

There were some reports of playmat delivery issues (packages coming open in transit), so please check your rewards carefully as they arrive. The actual rate of failure is extremely low, so most of you will be unaffected by this, but please make a note if your game items are damaged. In the future, once the warehouse is ready, we will ask for you to contact us so that we can handle any devastated game items. External packaging, including the shipping cartons and boxes, are not game items.

Car Wars Pre-Orders

As of this morning, Car Wars Sixth Edition pre-orders are still open at Warehouse 23. If you missed out on some of the add-on items during the campaign, or if you decided you need more of something (Road Tiles, for example, are always useful in bulk), then please visit the pre-order page now. We will close pre-orders before the holidays.

- Phil Reed