Axles and Alloys II is a game of stupid automotive combat using Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars converted into post-apocalyptic, crudely armoured gun-toting wagons. Which then proceed to chase each other around a radioactive desert landscape attempting to destroy each other for absolutely no bloody good reason whatsoever. It's main influence is the toy car conversion scene that sprang up around Games Workshop's Dark Future in the 1980s along with my feeling that Dark Future was never a very good game in the first place and that Car Wars was too large and cumbersome to be worth playing.
The original Axles and Alloys, way before it ever got written up for web distribution back around 2001 or so was little more than a homebrew adaptation of Full Thrust with Hot Wheels cars
rather than Spacecraft. Axles and Alloys was the form the game took when dragged around the wargames convention scene in the English Midlands. It turned out to be surprisingly popular when released onto the intertubes for reasons I can't really grok but I suspect that it was a hit because it didn't take itself very seriously, offered a great outlet for the sort of creative urges
that enjoy converting Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars into post-apocalyptic, crudely armoured gun-toting wagons etc. and that previous attempts at this sort of thing (like the aforementioned commercial games) weren't actually very playable.
Edit: I'm not the original Person Who wrote this post but am editing it because of the unnecessary and quite ignorant levels of vehemence exibited in this post.
Axels and Alloys is actually a great system for those of Us Who don't wish to waste time or money on overblown systems of complicated rules that are "updated" for $100 every few months to a year, that result in game nights degenerating into munchkin power gaming rule arguments and prefer straight forward fun gaming with no ego attached.
The rules are simple and as a result are great for teaching Children the first few steps of tabletop gaming or even newcomers Who have more in Their life than just gaming. It's somewhat a bridge, if You will, between board games and wargaming. In my personal experience A&A is quick, brutal and fun.
To the original poster.....Dude...take Your meds and chill :/
Designer: Owen Cooper