Though this is satire, we’ve all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

  • Way back in prehistory I played Car Wars when it first came out. (You know, before it became an unwieldy, badly-organized mess that rivalled even Star Fleet Battles for being impossible for normal folk to play.)

    We missed one very key rule. The “damage” rating for weapons was a number of d6 to roll for damage. We played it as individual points.

    Needless to say even the shortest auto duels were horrifically and painfully long to play out.