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The
BrikWars Forums
Organize battles, cook up custom rules, and cause forum-based mayhem with
other BrikWars fans |
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Core
Rules 2005
The 2005 Tenth Anniversary edition of the main rulebook, in illustrated
and cross-referenced HTML.
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Supplements
The Core Rules are pretty basic - beef them up with extra stat
cards, chapters, and alternate versions.
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Downloads
Desktop graphics, template files, older game versions - there's
all kinds of free goodies over here.
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BrikWars
Fan Sites
Brick clubs from all around the world show amazing ingenuity and
astounding constructions in the course of playing BrikWars, and
the resulting websites are often nothing short of phenomenal.
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Other
Brick Wargames
If BrikWars isn't your style, there are plenty of other free brick
wargames available on the internet. Check here for a list of links.
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Bricks
on the Web
The Internet is full of amazing resources for brick enthusiasts.
Check here for links to some of our favorites.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
New to BrikWars? Having trouble figuring out the point of all
this mayhem? Check our list of Frequently Asked Questions and
you may find yourself even more confused than before.
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The
Fine Print
BrikWars needs all kinds of disclaimers to get away with causing
so much trouble. Besides our long Legal Disclaimer, you'll also
find our Fair Use and Linking to BrikWars policies here.
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Credits
BrikWars in its current state would never have been possible without
the generous help and support of dozens of fans, well-wishers,
and unwitting 'contributors.' Here's a few of the big ones.
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There are plenty of games on the market for people who like
to be told exactly what to do and how to do it. BrikWars has
never really been one of them. For the natural-born BrikWarrior,
rules are nothing more than construction bricks to be mixed
and matched and discarded at will. And everyone knows that the
more bricks you've got, the better. The Core Rules should only
be considered a starting point; the Supplemental material presented
here offers the ambitious player enough additional bricks to
keep him busy for a good long time.
| BrikWars 2005: Core Rules |
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Building your own creations is all well and good, but
it never hurts to start on a good foundation. BrikWars
2005 is available online here in live HTML.
And now, thanks to a surprise effort from Kolja ("Flashhawk" on the forums), the HTML files have been ripped and cropped into an easy-printing PDF format. Thanks Kolja!
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Want to check your unit stats without having to page
through your notes, or worse, the rulebook? Check out
these handy stat cards. There's a blank one to photocopy
and write on, layered photoshop templates if you want
to make some professional-looking cards of your own,
and a good pile of pregenerated units as well.
The cards are two sided; print them out, fold them
over, and glue them together for best effect. For a
more solid feel, fold them around card stock, and once
the glue is dry, come back in with the scissors and
trim the edges.
Note: Depending on your graphics
software, the text layers in the Photoshop templates
may show up as uneditable rendered graphics - just delete
them and replace with your own text. The fonts used
are GowdieExtra, Gowdy Old Style, and Gill Sans MT.
If you don't have those specific fonts, feel free to
replace them with whatever you've got.
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| BrikWars 2001: Advanced Rules |
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The 2005 Core Rules are pretty straightforward, we'd
like to think, but don't let them lull you into a false
sense of security. BrikWars players' tolerance for mind-boggling
complexity has to be seen to be believed, and the proof
is BrikWars 2001. Rather than filing this unchecked
rules extravaganza as evidence of gross failure in the
exercise of moderation, we prefer to claim that it's
the Advanced Rules for BrikWars 2005.
We absolutely do not recommend that you try using all
of these rules together in the same game. However, a
couple of especially-pertinent sections, picked out
here and there, can add all kinds of personality to
a Core Rules game. Our recommended favorites: The
Trooper's Arsenal (Ch. 2), More Ways to
Attack (Ch. 3.3), More Ways to Die
(Ch. 3.4), Acceleration, Deceleration, and Turning
(Ch. 6.2.1), Standard Combatants (Ch.
8), Alternate Species (Ch. 9), and Summoning
BrikThulhu (Ch. Fnrd). All of those are real
except for the last one.
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BrickForge
Red Bean and Armothe
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While
the official Lego figures don't lend themselves as immediately
to wargaming chic as say, Mega Bloks' Dragons line, a number
of hardcore Lego fans are stepping up to fill in the gaps.
Red Bean and Armothe, in particular, make some super cool
stuff, and they've teamed up to form BrickForge in order to make it available for everybody. Their custom weapons, armor, and accessories are guaranteed to impress your friends who think
they've already seen it all.
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BrickForge | The Minifig Customization Network |
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