Revised Road War Cards

These are updated cards for my roadwar game

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Will be looking at some more extreme apocalypses far more extreme and gonzo than Murder Highway

Anyway this above images from Waste Knight game looks freaking awesome and contains elements of my favorite computer games like Roadwar2000. Poor Ayers Rock now a missile silo.
http://www.gamesgazette.co.uk/gg/main.php?p=content/Board%20Games/Waste%20Knights.htm

My setting not like this pic from but alternate Sydney's might be already intermixing. Emanations of alternate futures might be interacted with in a dream like state or during temporal anomalies.

In murder highway the centre is desertified but some coastlines shrinking. City centres so walled and enclosed and above waterline they are not effected. Outer zones have more flooded sections. Some cities like Venice where people hang on like Sydney other like Adelaide leave semi sunken ruins to hell. Mutant crocs love global warming.

My planet Psychon is what i made when unsure if i could run gamma world or dnd. It is where my gamma world type gonzo games. Murder highway keeps it's face more straight. It is more like a 2000AD comic or anime while Planet Psychon is a Saturday Morning Cartoon for adults.

Also look out for upcoming mutant crawl classics

And Mutant Epoch

My game is a slow motion apocalypse in progress not a true post apocalypse

Im a big fan of TSR Gammaworld second edition, it is one of best games ever, and one of best designed box sets ever. Gammaworld could be my setting in 300 or 400 years in the future but needs more undead.


Ghost in the Shell and a few anime influentual too.

Morbis Gravis and Druuna comics in heavy metal was awesome and a big influence on my decaying bunker/city/spaceship settings. Xor and my ruined spaceships and mutants all owe something to this. Lots online but very adult and a bit too much bondage and butt rape for my taste. The story is a dreamlike mess but the setting is incredible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druuna

 

So Dark future to return as a PC game. 

http://www.beastsofwar.com/games-workshop/games-workshops-dark-future-digital-reboot/
Not much newer info than this



Some more classic dark future - I cant't recommend the Jack Yeovil/Kim Newan Books enough 

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Saltflat jet and rocket car racing is pretty exiting and big budget mostly corporate teams. Some are sponsored by space agencies. Murder racing made it international TV and even bigger batches. Seeing missiles soar over kilometers and cars shoot of track and explode in a cliff is awesome.

Jet and rocket cars influenced other high performance cars and death racing. This baby has two large missiles and a .50cal machine gun. There is a medeum laser on a swivel mount facing rear. Chromium jet age retro sf look to get camera attention.

Airships travel so high most ground fire cant see them. Some are used as troop transports. Not as big as the 10 000 man airship bases used in the zone wars but Australian military have some with 2000 man bases. Typical desert raiders like this intimidate small communities to surrender to be robbed them. They might also drop 20 paratroopers to perform a surprise attack. Some sky pirates are using designs with prop planes or ultralights.

You meet all sorts in the waste. Cyborgs, mutants and aliens oh my. You would be disappointed if it turned out they were just millionaires jacked into android bodies out for kicks.

Genetic reconstruction theme parks were all the rage from the late 80s but most shut down and their automated facilities have let some species roam free. Here Cretacious Park and Piestocene Green exhibits meet

Drones are getting smaller and more hive like. A Necrotech surgery drone team of six could handle emergency surgery in extreme conditions. The can be hacked and turned into assassin drones. They are a byproduct of space and military tech.

Bunkers like this dot the coastline after the 80s zone wars. Australians killed millions of refugees in famous "battles". Ruins of these bunkers still contain chem weapons and many are now mutant gang headquarters. Some rare ones have space for hundreds below the surface for nuclear warfare.

Punk never died in the 80s, it just got worse. Gangs rampaged arounf poor suburbs and the outback for thrills and territory. When the urban walls went up they were locked out. The rich glitter punks of the inner city are soft and fake. Most become suits when their teen years expire or the trust funds get empty. Punk gangs even broadcast their own tv channels with bands, nihlism and anarchy talk shows, punk porn and best gang murders. They also have own coverage of death races and encourage terrorist attacks on legitimate honest racers. Punks also hack the gov and corp data banks but their trustworthiness suffers from gang and cult dogma and conspiracy theories. Possibly 30-40% of the population are punk with even tribal punk clans.

Robot dinosaur battles are a new event with teams vs  cybersaurus. Various contest modes exist including harpoon and capture scenarios. Cheaper than real dinosaurs for the corp TV events.

This art and following is from Waste Knights which Im increasingly interested in. Has lots of spot on art and world building hex building fun. Seldom I see a game that screams movie please.

Anyway this game looks freaking awesome and contains elements of my favorite computer games.
http://www.gamesgazette.co.uk/gg/main.php?p=content/Board%20Games/Waste%20Knights.htm

Walls with look out towers are common defenses with car traps, pits, metal spiked posts, concrete pillars arranged to make car entry impossible all help fortify a town. They also act as cover for ground troops. Towers are very useful with a sniper or rocket defender for extra utility. They are obvious targets however.



Many areas are industrial wastelands. 80s era slag heaps of open cut coal, chemical waste, garbage, and miles of tidal muck. Only most secretive cults, desperate gangs or secret black labs would operate here. Hazardous for any surface or wet vehicles. Hovercrafts even risc tearing or damaging their skirts. Mutant crustaceans, protozoic colonies, crocks and squid things lurk here. Fishmen especialy enjoy human free habitat and water access. There is plenty of loot in containers to be found on warfs and warehouses and factories. Some manage to fortify and operate a factory and even grade a debris free route away for trade. I wish this pic had some tires.

Refineries are a important resource processing massive amounts of fossil fuels and bio fuels. As these plants can process anything organic the areas around them becomes desertified. The biofuel converters some cars carry process road kill and scraps reducing need to buy fuel. You can always spare something organic to get some fuel. The military use them in trucks to support other vehicles and to process mass enemy graves into fuel, thus reducing war crimes.. 

A store with a garage near a refinery and a gun shop are the minimum need for a long range murder racer. Some food to eat and perhaps a chance to trade or drink help the hospitality. Careful you don't take food from cannibals while in the country. Plenty of ruins and trouble everywhere, opportunities to die in a blaze of glory or build something to stand against the entropy of the waste.

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Here is my genre image dump for Murder Highway where I show some inspirational art I find and use it to spin some stuff on the setting.
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One thought of this setting is to try some earlier periods in setting like 70s or 80s or do as flashbacks letting players add few features and careers between the decades - start out 70s toughs, go through cyborg wars with brains erased on release, a decade in wasteland where gain mutations. Let vehichles evolve each decade too. This is an awesome poster, Japan does some awesome film posters.

People forget about sub compact cars. It is cheaper to ermour them up and o for best wapon with your minimal space. They turn out tougher than people think. Armour plated with a laser turret for example and a gunner makes a beast in a death race.


This Porche is well armoured, still fairly fast and has a 4 pack anti tank rocket pack and medeum machine gun in the front, plus 4 anti vehicular over the horizone missiles. A deadly vehichle for quick engage and destroy missions and the speed armour and gun are still formidable once the main munitions hav been fired. Such a vehichle made blitzcriegs on tanks to good effect.



Fire can be pretty deadly even ust as a visual obstacle for drivers. Most panic but this op with fire proof armour also can relaz vs lasers. ECM systems scramble guided projectiles like missiles and rockets. It uses two forward and one medeum laser in the rear. A excellent but expensive modern persuit vehichle.



This vehichle has had its suspension raised for off road handling and ground clearance making it a bigger target. The bosted engine is a bigger target too. The cabins are well armoured with ports for passengers and a .50 cal gun on the roof operated by crewman through the hatch. Keeping water and fuel on the otside would be for long trips only. This would be a boss car in a gang or perhaps a militia or poor mercenary car.



Penal race shows prform well and criminals get to earn their freedom if they out kill all other contestants. Some circuits cover multiple races with different prisons with state, federal and private leagues. Many who win and earn freedom perform well in outside death races. Some of the crew in a team might be released or killed during the race which ads tension.



This prison racer has two medeum linked mini guns able to destroy an APC or whole biker gang in a burst. The performance and armour is enhanced and the rear has extra armour in a detatchable slab. The reinforced armour is made for ramming.



A well armoured death racer or urban gang boss with four frontal medeum machine guns and a gunner operated one in the cockpit. The front wheels are modded with hub scythes to destroy rival tires. The rear tires are covered by the car armour. Fast and well armoured built for offence, persuits and defence. A serious vehihle.



Murder motorsports well represented by the ladies. Many live short bright lives but those that survive are hard as nails. Sponsorship comes easy with million dollar mens magazine shoots providing pin p racers eams with the best quality and looking tech. This 70s looking hull conceals a host om modern weapons. Rear oil caster and machinegun and 4 rockets to the rear with twin MGs in the front. Relies on speed and arms to win over armour and fire power. Fans for these ladies can be a bit fanatic. Some merely ry to steal souveneers or meet them. Other avenge them and sabotage oponants. Plenty of women just stick to being tough with brutal cars but they still get offers for cash and selling out to sex.



This Japanese car is about speed and endurance and has gas and oil projectors in the rear. A pop up heavy laser in the hood is the main weapon. The crew wear armoured spacesuits which ad to their survivability and g force tollerance of rocket boosted acceleration.

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Slowly the old inner cities are being rebuilt into mega complexes and arcologies. The policed zones surrounding the inner city is surrounded by walls. The outer transit zone is mostly full of truck stops, vice ridden clubs and slumburb cheap housing. Mutants, criminals or diseased dont get let in.



Advances scouts like this are enjoyed by corporates rather than military. A medium gauss gun swivel mount and advanced polymer armour makes the vehicle expensive but lack of defence makes it not much better than a raider buggy



Enhanced armour, spotlights, winch, enhanced engine, brakes, and a biofuel plant make this a good cheap car for a inter city road trip. Gunports are main weapon but a car like this might out run and armour the scrappier wasteland gangs



This is the basic origin of a Gentech Interceptor. V8, V10, V20, V16  and V20 models exist. The older models are used by independant ops and free lancers, often ex death racers try to get one of these. The more recent models are for A-list national death racers and biggest op companies and corporations. Newer models are worth a cool million. Each model was the pinnacle of design for it's day. Most road users give way to these cars by rep alone.


Cool kids from the urban zones think a trek by road to another city is a rite of passage. Outraging their parents by risking their lives instead of going to university or taking drugs in their privelaged apartment megaplexes. Some of these kids survive and take up life on the road. Most that survive never go back and go back to their apartments or get a job. More than half die like lemmings and many are incorporated into gangs. Rich parents will pay to recover their kids in gangs



Outside the urban sprawl and ruins there are rural agrizones then mostly the wasteland which makes up most of inland Australia. Technology diminishes the further from cities you go



Androids, cyborgs, clones are all available but cost millions. Companies are eager to test their products however. Bioware is harder to detect and increasingly common.



Modern smartsuits and guns and headgear allow all kinds of apps for the modern corp special forces. Low light, threat recog, stutter shot (avoid shooting your allies with autofire), thermographics, drug auto injectors, laser targeter and range finder, plus plenty more. It is a bit messier looting a cyborg.



In the pre plague ruins around most cities rat has set in all kinds of malcontents and mutants thrive. Mutant rights are a thriving issue  in news media



Punks and colourful gangs swarm the wastes but in cities they tend to have cleaner clothes and better hair. Huge cheap apartment blocks full of punks are in the transit zones. Punks are in every walk of life from factory worker to grandparents to truck stop mechanics and fry cooks.



Neural link helms offer sophisticated interface possibilities with vehicles and guns without plugs, contact points or neural interface hubs. Second hand implant sales are much cheaper and back yard cyber medics can just fit in dated military tech that is good enough for the street


Under old city those infected by necrovirus hide from the sunlight. These guys use UV frequency lasers that offend the undead greatly. UV spotlights help too. Nocturnalism and albinism are common first signs of infection. Many just carry and spread it but awaken as fast ghouls shortly after death



Many towns are ghost towns with a possible undead or gang or mutant presence. Cultists often occupy such towns and try to pass as honest farm folk



This is a common improvised combat car where even bullets are hard to get. Makers of high octane fuel are in big demand in the wastes and requires more skill than common biofuel plants make



These outlandish gang vehichles are product of recycling and scratch building with emphasis on ramming, boarding and primitive weapons like arbelasts

Some nomads and  fortified homesteads build massive multirole vehicles. This has a mechanized digging too, ram blades, a biofuel refinery, a generator, a home, a freight hauler. The heavy machine gun mount is a bonus



Huger bikes keep coming out with computer gyroscopes, independently powered wheels, reconfiguration modes for racing or off road and computerised auto driving. High tech bikes tend to hide weapon systems with transformation modes.



The most advanced bikes are increasingly space age with enclosed pods even rocket boosters or jet boosters. Corporate bikes with a single laser are adequate to destroy targets up to the horizon or even the air. Some have mechanized heave armour that merges with the cockpit



Necrocycle based on cyborg bikers infected with the necrovirus have been becoming increasingly weird. A few of these have bee ridden by gang leaders but the bike is the bigger danger




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