''Truck Stop'' is a supplement published by
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''.
History
Founded in 1980, six years after the cr ...
(SJG) in 1983 for the board wargame ''
Car Wars
''Car Wars'' is a vehicle combat simulation game developed by Steve Jackson Games. It was first published in 1980. Players control armed vehicles in a post-apocalyptic future.
Game play
In ''Car Wars'', players assume control of one or more ca ...
''.
Gameplay
''Truck Stop'' is a supplement that includes rules for using 18-wheel
semi-trailer trucks in ''Car Wars''.
''Car Wars'' is a game of heavily armed cars engaged in ''
Mad Max''-style combat. ''Truck Stop'' is a supplement that adds rules and counters for
18-wheeler
A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semitruck, (or semi, eighteen-wheeler, big rig, tractor-trailer or, by synecdoche, a semitrailer) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer a ...
trucks.
In addition to rules for building and handling these trucks, the rules include a list of new weapons specific to trucks artillery, heavy lasers and antipersonnel grenades.
The supplement also includes a map of a map of a fortified truck stop.
The original ''Car Wars'' rules and counters are required to fully play the game.
Publication history
SJG published ''Car Wars'' in 1980. It proved popular and SJG followed up with several supplements, including ''Truck Stop'', designed by
Steve Jackson and published in 1983 as a
microgame.
In 1987, Hobby Japan released a Japanese-language edition titled トラック・ストップ (''Torakku sutoppu'').
Reception
In Issue 63 of ''The Space Gamer'', Craig Sheeley commented "''Car Wars'' players have been waiting for this ever since the game came out, and their wait is justified. If you liked the movie ''Road Warrior'', if you like the idea of an unstoppable convoy, if you just like the idea of armed rigs, get this. But you must have ''Car Wars'' to use it."
In Issue 18 of the French games magazine ''
Casus Belli
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'', Martin Latallo noted that there were rudimentary rules for role-playing, writing, "the rules concerning the characters are further improved as well as the abilities (skills). There is even an organization that does cloning!" Latallo concluded, "Truck stop is full of good ideas. and it is in my opinion an essential supplement for any ''Car Wars'' player."
GeekDad
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wrote that ''Truck Stop'' "would add a bit more flavor to the original game by providing tractor-trailer combos. Going up against my friends car-to-car was quite fun, but there’s something truly unique and memorable when three of my gaming buddies are taking on another pal who is driving an 18-wheeler with three machine gun turrets on top, more armor (points) on a single side of the trailer than all three of our cars combined, and enough speed to plow through any of us who get in front of him."
References
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Car Wars