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I have pulled together a selection of photos from the GW (Games Workshop) Battlecars range. Battlecars is a tabletop board game which can be played with 6mm scale miniatures, which are sadly no longer produced by Games Workshop. It was an 80’s classic game from Ian Livingstone and has stood up to the test of time. The models can be picked up on ebay at over £1 a model and often fetch a lot more, I spotted one auction at around $30 for only 5 of the tiny cars. Big money for the size of each 6mm model! You can also usually find the rules on ebay which can cost up to £40.

Games Workshop also produced a car game called Dark Future which was released with plastic cars in Matchbox scale (20mm). Dark Future was based on a track rather than a free-form city area used in Battlecars. I prefer the smaller scale and mechanics of Battlecars but Dark Future was a fun game to play and allowed for more detail of weapons on the cars.

There are alternatives to using the sweet little 6mm cars and you can use Micromachines, Hotwheels and Matchbox cars. This will require you to scale up the game board which would be easy to do with a few bits of cardboard and a steady hand. Battlecars had an expansion called Battlebikes and some of these are pictured in the gallery images. The trucks were released as models but no rules where ever put together for them, which is something our group in Crawley are now working on and we have the prototype rules ready for testing.

The game itself is great fun with simple rules for the use of a mix of weapons and templates to cover your damage and the location of ammo. Ramming is great fun and a well played game can lead you into some fun scenes of auto-carnage. You can read about the board game in detail here Battlecars at Boardgamegeek .

To view the full collection of painted models in full painted colour click here: Gallery of Battlecars