What are your Postapocalyptic card unit ideas?

Pathetic Wanderer - I love that idea, that's cool - will be using that :)

Haha cool, well I've had way more than that if you include this page (also asking for ideas) :
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/703701/win-a-copy-of-atompunk-wastelands...

But some great examples that I like are:
Crazy old Man - I will probably involve him in another item or combine him with the useless wanderer - has some mechanic wherby it breaks one of your caravan elements and then puts itself in the empty space. Perhaps really poor stats or even really good stats (you WANT to get him, but he may steal the place of a really useful caravan) alternatively it may be a "for two turns" steal. So you can make the most of him (if he's good) or be relieved that the uselessness will cease in 2 turns.

Lefty: Has one cybernetic/steampunk arm. +6 only to left side (gotta balance out Pete) - this made me laugh, will probably balance pete out yeah :) - but as pete is a leader unit, he will more than likely replace a steam engine and act as a "Position 1" unit, giving a huge bonus to his right (correct orientation) and a bad bonus to the left. If Lefty is used though, he would not need to be a leader unit and probably best suited at the back - will be using something like this anyway :)

Duct Tape/ WD40 / JUNGLE OVERGROWTH! / Radioactive Winds / quick sand etc. these would all be event cards as in - play once cards that have some effect. But am unsure if I will be using quicktime event cards (instants) like this in the game yet but if I do, it will most definately be something similar, perhaps "Bag o' Bolts" instead of duct tape or "Doc. Sostrong's Engine Lubricant" instead of wd40 - but principally the same idea :)

Bulldozer: I hadn't initially thought of this - but something similar: A WW1 British Hornsby Chain Tractor: (yesterday I did a load of picture scrapes from stuff ilke this, got loads of similar stuff)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2863616410_f16bbd479d_b.jpg

Drill: 1X used to make well for lots of water, joins caravan until then
I didn't get what you meant at first, but then I did - it has a nice concept "not so useful day-to-day. Active abilitiy: Discard this card
from the caravan: +5 water" - that's cool, I would need to do crazy balancing with it, but really cool all the same

magnetic "maglev" powered stuff: Nice idea, they would need to be a "breed" of engine - if you follow? Like they will all need a tag (like in magic the gathering: "The Death Walker: Undead, Knight, Zombie" then "All knights get +1 attack")
So in our case it will be: "Joana's Amazing Magnetic Engine: Magnetic, Leader, Car" and then we can do a LOAD of cards that effect Magnetic or something similar?
They would probably have some general abilitiy that sacrifices fuel for speed? Or perhaps a bonus vs. metal?

Radioactive Monster Poisoning Water: Again cool idea, I'm not sure if it will be hard or easy to implment. Perhaps a simple "When this monster dies: +1 fuel, NO water production next turn" to game-ify it? A similar(ish) idea we've had is the: Runs on anything: +1 fuel every time a monster is killed by this caravan.

:)

Yeah that's col texan - very similar to MT:G - gives us a lot more scope for card vs. card interactions.ie

Hulking Scrap Colossal: Large, Scrap, Melee
Salt Liquor Bandits: Mob, Human

And of course then:
+3 vs Humans
or
"Only resistant to Large creatures"
or
"Targets only "Scrap" elements"

Heya Levi,

Yeah man I have as a matter of fact - that's what I wanted, a bit of variation to make each game a little different (similar to pandemic). I am HOPING that this will be solved by one of two ways:

1) I will implment upgrades/passengers/crew to the elements eg: a Solar Harvester could be upgraded with an equipment card that would sit above the element and perhaps be called something like "Overloaded" or "Shined Up" which would give an element a standard +1 to any resource production ability it has. In this manner, some of those cards will be specialists and crew members: perhaps "navigator" or whatever - one of these could be a specialist card as you say. Perhaps simply YOUe. And this "you" card would have to be attached to either any one of the caravan trucks, or perhaps only the leader truck. This would add its special abilities (eg Water Weird - Increased Water Output) on all elements in the whole caravan

2) The leader cards (ol' steamer, big red, blind pete) are these cards themselves the player abilities. As well as having general power bonuses each side and the "Progress to a new location if you pay the cost" abilitiy, they will also have a game-changing player ability as you say - will be tough to balance!

-Which idea is best?