SWAT HQ
SWAT Member Information



Posted January 04, 2015
Updated June 17, 2023



Michael P. Owen
Bellevue, WA

Michael is the SWAT HQ Webmaster and is the author of the blog Wheels, Weapons, and the Wasteland. Michael also runs the Twitter account Car Combat Central. Previously, Michael edited the Car Wars Internet Newsletter (CWIN) from 1998 to 2013, and moderated the Car Wars message board Dueling Debate on the Delphi Forums Web site.


Gregory Pratt
Steve Jackson Games MiB
Lake Stevens, WA

Greg is the primary referee and organizer for SWAT, and has been a MiB for Steve Jackson Games for several years. Greg runs Car Wars Sixth Edition tournaments using 3-D components set in 3X Car Wars scale at two gaming conventions in Bellevue, Washington State: OrcaCon each January and Dragonflight each August.

Greg has created two beautiful 3-D Car Wars arenas in 3X Car Wars scale; Rainbow Bay Blast Furnace from Car Wars Arena Book 1988 and Warrior Stadium from L'Outrance (reprinted as Dynamax's KEAR Coliseum in Car Wars Arenas).

Greg's own arena design, The Everett Crosshairs, was published in Autoduel Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3 in autumn 1991. Greg has also built The Everett Crosshairs as a 3-D Car Wars arena in 3X Car Wars scale.