AVRO Archive: Resources
Game Tools - Counters


When playing Car Wars, players use counters -- small paper cutouts with pictures -- to symbolize the location of their cars, dropped weapons, and other things that appear on the field of battle. The game usually comes with enough counters for a standard game. However, there is usually not enough for a large scale battle. Trying to buy some more can become fairly costly since Car Wars expansion packs have been out of print for quite some time.

To help conserve money, AVRO has produced its own set of counters of dropped weapons and stuff. Note: Due to the huge possibilities in possible shapes, sizes and styles, we did not produce any vehicle or pedestrian counters.

You are welcome to use our counters. here is our main counter sheet (76 Kb) that we use. Usually, we adjust it to fit the number and type of counters as our needs dicate. Below are the various types of counters that we produced:
 

AVRO Main Counter Sheet
 

Flame Clouds
 

Flaming Oil
 

Foam
 

Gas Streamers
 

Hot Smoke
 

Ice
 

Mines

(Note: The mine counter with the 1/4" white border symbolizes the potential contact area of a normal mine. The 1/2" white border is for Spider Mines.)
 

Miscellaneous

(junk dropper, debris, obstacle, grenade, on fire, hovercraft vector arrow)
 

Oil
 

Paint
 

Sand
 

Smoke
 

Spikes

(Note: The spike counter with the 1/4" white border symbolizes the potential contact area of spikes.)
 


Web Posted by Bruce Lam, Autoduelists of the Vancouver Regional Organization, ca. 2005.
Reprinted by the Seattle Washington Autoduel Team, January 19, 2008.