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==Vehicle Design Guidelines==
Instead of classic list building like 40k or X-Wing, vehicles in Car Wars are designed for a specific task, role, budget and type of terrain. For arenas, you can afford to spread armor and firepower on all sides of the vehicle. Pure broadside vehicles can be viable in the arena depending on the terrain. For the open road, most of the armor and firepower is going to be concentrated on the front and back of the vehicle.

Solid tires are almost a must on the road, in the arena you can get away with cheaper tires, esp in lower divisions.

Ram plates, rollcages and safety seats should only be used on specialized ramming vehicles.

You will almost always want component armor for your crew, engine and main weapon, as well as wheelhubs and/or wheelguards.

Crewmen need body armor and fire extinguishers but don't really need anything else.

Machineguns, vulcan machineguns and recoilless rifles are good all-round weapons. A lot of other weapons like rockets, cannons or flame require you to build specialized vehicles and make tradeoffs to take advantage of them.

Most mistakes made during design will only become apparent during play. Try to modify and improve the design after each game until you end up with something different than what you started with.