Desert Riders

[Carri Seargent]

DesertRiders: Car Battle Game is a casual shooting game where you fight intense battles from a weapon-fitted vehicle. Fight various enemies with an array of weapons, cars, and upgrades. Tear other cars to shreds and battle tricky bosses. Dive into the desert and start shooting!How to PlayEmbark on thrilling car battlesDesert Riders offers an engaging experience with straightforward controls for seamless combat. Challenge yourself against diverse enemies, including motorcycles, sports cars, police vehicles, and armored trucks. When you blast vehicles, you tear them to pieces in a satisfying display of destruction. Execute drive-by shootings near buildings in slow motion for bonus rewards, accumulate eliminations to advance through levels, and earn additional points for precise headshots!

Advance through various dystopian landscapes, each presenting unique challenges and terrains. Test your mettle in particularly demanding boss battles and showcase your firepower and armor in a spectacular display of dominance.

At the beginning of each level, you can select from an array of boosters to enhance your gameplay. With options ranging from laser and plasma weaponry to lightning, armor, and health boosts, you can tailor your approach to each challenge for maximum impact.

Conquer levels and reach milestones to unlock treasure chests filled with rewards. Utilize these gains to modify and enhance your vehicle at the auto shop. Unlock a diverse collection of cars, including retro and rare models, and personalize your ride with over 70 customization options for wheels, bumpers, exhausts, engines, and paint jobs.

This shooter and car game has it all: fast-paced gameplay, mind-blowing excitement, and cool cars and weapons. Get behind the wheel and jump into the action! Play Desert Riders on the web now and go for a spin!

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Not long after 1989 when my Sahara Motorcycle Tour described in Desert Travels staggered back home, a bitter civil war broke out in Algeria as the army annulled elections and unrelated nomad rebellions broke out in the desert. At that time both Libya and Western Sahara to Mauritania were not accessible and so the brief Golden Age of independently exploring the Sahara came to an end.

I took a nine-year break from desert biking until a chink opened up in Libya in the late 90s and I returned on a BMW F650. My vehicle supported motorcycle tours in Libya and re-opened Algeria soon followed, and in 2003 I cooked up an ambitious expedition: Desert Riders.

Public opinion on desert riders varied depending on who was asked. The nomads, or Al-Badia, revered the desert riders as true heroes who represented the traditional qualities of desert folk: bravery, honor, and freedom. Villagers of small towns often thought they were little better than wandering thieves. Realistically, both are right. Men and women of good and evil backgrounds became desert riders.

Desert riders possessed an uncanny ability to judge horse physiques, resulting in them owning the finest mounts available. Mounts under a desert riders care performed in a superior manner to when they were handled by ordinary folk.[1]

After selecting a name for the club, members worked out names for officers, which were reminiscent of the Old West. The president was the Roundup Boss; the vice president was the Straw Boss; the treasurer was the Buck Boss; the secretary, the Top Wrangler, and the Trails Boss looked after the trails. Each year elections were held and the new officers were sworn in.

Certain types of falls earned a certain number of points. Each fall was judged by how many parts of the body hit the ground at the same time. A one-point landing translated into one foot hitting the desert floor. A two-point landing represented two feet and a three-point landing was considered to be two feet and one hand. The point system went all the way up to five points (two feet, two hands and your backside) with special recognition if the rider fell on a cactus.

As time went on and the population of the city of Palm Springs grew so did development of open desert. Highways and roads began to crisscross the desert trails and houses and apartments began to fill up much of the empty acreage throughout the city.

The Desert Riders was only about 10 years old when they documented their favorite trails and published the Desert Riders Trail Map. This map marked the trails that were used and described each one in detail. The funds that were raised from the sale of the maps helped to maintain the many trails that the club constructed. Some of these trails wind up the mountains that surround Palm Springs and provide a spectacular view of the desert below.

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians allowed the Desert Riders to use Andreas Canyon, a favored spot for the club because of the running water, superb scenery and a palm-rimmed amphitheater which was ideal for meetings with ample space for horses, picnic tables and even parking.

The Tallarn Desert Raiders is the name of the Militarum Regimentum of the Astra Militarum raised from the Desert World of Tallarn whose soldiers are highly skilled at desert and mobile armoured warfare. They are primarily deployed in the Segmentum Tempestus and Segmentum Ultima and are particularly skilled at desert warfare and rapid armoured assaults.

The Desert Raiders are mobile guerrilla fighters, evasive and opportunistic. They are especially known for their lightning-quick Sentinel and hard-hitting tank squadrons and are masters of hit-and-run mobile warfare. They love to strike a killing blow at the heart of an enemy formation before returning to their own lines, prepared to pounce once more.

The people of Tallarn are extremely resourceful and pragmatic. They are patient, determined and utterly ferocious in pursuit of their enemies. Tallarn are all accomplished riders, and often will use riding mounts to move from battle to battle, dismounting only when they are close to the enemy and wish to employ stealth. Once the enemy is sighted, the Tallarn will stalk them closely, relying on their practiced marksmanship and lightning-quick curved combat knives to achieve victory.

Once a fertile, verdant Agri-world, Tallarn was devastated early in the history of the Imperium. During the dark days of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium, the warriors of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion unleashed powerful Virus Bombs upon the world's surface, scouring it of almost all life, and leaving only a few pockets of survivors in subterranean shelters. When the Iron Warriors descended from orbit to claim and fortify this poisoned world as one of their countless citadels, they faced immediate and savage resistance from those who had survived, braving the surface in armoured vehicles that would protect them from the virus-infested air.

What followed, simply dubbed the Battle of Tallarn, remains to this day the single largest tank engagement in the history of the Imperium, with millions of vehicles clashing and withdrawing in brutal exchanges over the course of solar months. In spite of the sheer size of the conflict, the Tallarn people could not hope to face the Heretic Astartes in open battle, and instead quickly mastered guerrilla warfare strategies that allowed them to better elude the retaliation of the Iron Warriors forces, vanishing beneath the sands after each sortie, only to engage in another elsewhere. In time, the Iron Warriors withdrew from the world that had been so costly to them, and the people of Tallarn were given the opportunity to rebuild. To this day, the Tallarn have a particularly fearsome reputation for armoured warfare, and their tank crews are rightly feared.

In the centuries following the Horus Heresy, the poisons and pathogens in the atmosphere diminished entirely, but the world was forever changed. In place of rolling hills, bountiful fields, and broad seas, were dunes of sulphurous sand, sun-scorched plains, and mesas of wind-scoured rock, with what little water remained lingering as vapour in the skies above. Constructing tall vapour traps that could gather this vital moisture, and expanding their subterranean homes with tunnels, caverns, and surface domes, the population was protected from the deadly sandstorms and extreme conditions. Tallarn has remained this way for millennia.

Tallarn regiments have adapted to fight in this environment, where to become stranded is to die an excruciating and drawn out death. They commonly consist of mobile guerilla fighters, as evasive as they are opportunistic. Masters of hit-and-run warfare, they aim to strike a killing blow at the heart of the enemy before returning to their own lines and preparing to pounce once more. Tallarn infantry regiments are capable of fighting in incredibly loose formations, employing swift guerilla warfare to cripple isolated positions or lure enemy fighters away from the support of their allies.

With so little to offer to the Imperium's tithe collectors, the Tallarn can reasonably give only soldiers, and they do this with pride. Owing to the subterranean tunnels they grow up in, and the barren deserts of their homeworld's surface, the Tallarn people are skilled in fighting across open ground and in narrow tunnels alike, and Tallarn regiments still favour the hit-and-run tactics mastered by their ancestors during the Horus Heresy, moving swiftly and striking with surprise and precision before retreating to regroup and stage the next attack.

For this reason, the most common Tallarn regiments are infantry, Rough Rider cavalry mounted on horses or the reptilian Mukaali, or armoured regiments, all of which focus on some particular element of the favoured strategies of the Tallarn -- stealth, swiftness, and the killing blow.

The forces of Tallarn have a long-held aptitude for mechanised warfare and field an abundance of armoured and mechanised infantry regiments. Rather than using their vehicles as a wall of steel, Tallarn Tank Commanders pride themselves on their ability to coordinate fast spearhead assaults, their squadrons weaving between allied formations to strike unexpectedly at the unprepared foe.

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