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Organize battles, cook up custom rules, and cause forum-based mayhem with
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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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Version
History
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BrikWars has evolved steadily since its conception in the second
half of 1995, and it's interesting to compare the several versions
to see what was changed, what was added, and what was ruthlessly
eliminated. Here, in reverse chronological order, are
the most significant incarnations of BrikWars to date.
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After inflicting the unstoppable power of BrikWars 2001 on everyone for a couple of years, we've gotten enough laughs from your screams of pain and suffering. BrikWars 2005 is the more streamlined and elegant edition for faster and easier play. (For all the masochists in the audience, since we know there are plenty, feel free to scroll a little further down and pull as much extra detail as you like from the more exhaustively comprehensive 2001 rules.)
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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Like the Mega Blok of wargames, QuikWars
is BrikWars' quicker, simpler alternative, for
people who want to spend less time thinking and
more time playing. The whole rulebook fits quite
nicely onto two pieces of paper, perfect for convention
games and first-time players.
But for the full experience, keep scrolling down
to BrikWars, below.
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| Thanks to Wayne McCaul for creating updated
versions of the 2001 book in print-friendly
Acrobat PDF format. You may need to download
Adobe's free Acrobat
Reader in order to view and print it. |
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Otherwise, the rulebook is also available in
text format, divided into its major book divisions.
5 / 30 / 2004:
After rebalancing, some of the platform and vehicle
statistics in Chapter 5 have been changed. Please
see the Errata file: 2001-booktwo-errata.txt
(6k)
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This version of BrikWars was completed in September
2001, but its release was delayed for several months,
to the frustration of players across the globe.
What was the reason? Did the authors simply wish
to torture their fans? The surprising answer is
yes - for one fan in particular, who very nearly had
a brain meltdown during the process of failing to obtain
the rules.
Once he finally received the rules as promised (although
too late to salvage what scraps remained of his sanity),
we stalled a few more weeks to let him savor his victory
and to give him time to launch his retaliatory
strike. But now the waiting is over!
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Summer 2000 brought the HTML version of the text
that had been released in the Spring. Along
with the new format came an additional series
of revisions and improvements, making the Spring
release obsolete after only a few months.
The Summer revision became well-known for being
perpetually incomplete and in fact any hopes of
finishing the thing were dashed when all workers
were pulled off the 2000 project in order to develop
the 2001 update. Chapters Eight through
Ten, as well as the SP Supplement, didn't survive
the transition from the Spring text files.
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BrikWars
2000 in glorious full-color HTML
Download
BrikWars 2000 HTML (zip,
808k)
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Following an upsurge in BrikWars interest following
the NELUG games in February, this update introduced
a wealth of new material, including the now-infamous
Death Sling and the tragically flawed Supernatural
Powers supplement.
Wayne McCaul has been almost suspiciously generous
in donating his time and expertise in designing,
formatting, and producing the first-ever version
of BrikWars in the .pdf format. You may
need to download Adobe's free Acrobat
Reader in order to view and print it.
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BrikWars
2000, text format (zip,
155k)
BrikWars
2000, word format (zip,
226k)
BrikWars
2000, pdf format (zip,
820k)
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On Halloween 1998, we released the first HTML
version of BrikWars, hand-illustrated in 16-color
pixelated glory. This achievement, the creation
of a complete HTML version of BrikWars, was never
duplicated before or since.
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BrikWars
1998 in semi-glorious 16-color framed HTML
BrikWars 1998
in somewhat-glorious 16-color non-framed HTML
Download BrikWars
1998 HTML (zip, 280k)
| The very first edition of what would eventually
become BrikWars was written in the waning months
of 1995. This text spent a shadowy existence,
passing from person to person by photocopies and
e-mail for nearly a year, mutating and changing
along the way, but staying basically true to (and
by 'true to' we mean 'plagiarized from') its Lego
Wars predecessors. Eventually the game
found its first stable Internet home on the web
page of an Oregon State University student by the
name of Chad Bagaasoc, requiring the assembly of
a 'definitive' text from the many variations in
use at the time. This was accomplished in
early 1997, and that text remained in authority
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Download BrikWars
v1.0 (zip, 87k)
| Lego Wars and Lego Wars II |
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Lego Wars (1991) and Lego Wars II (1995), written
by two geniuses by the names of Eric O'Dell and
R. Todd Ogrin, are not BrikWars editions.
The LEGO Group did not give permission to use
their registered and trademarked word "LEGO®"
in the title (see our legal
disclaimer). Misters O'Dell and Ogrin
did not give any kind of permission to post their
work here. So what possible reason could
we have to do so?
BrikWars, in its earliest beginnings, drew so
heavily from these sources that it would be no
exaggeration to call it a direct plagiarism.
This was a lot more innocent than it sounds -
for the first few years of its existence BrikWars
was not intended as a separate entity but rather
a quick-fix edit. In those days the LEGO
legal department was particularly rabid and swore
grim oaths to destroy any product that used the
word "LEGO®" without their permission.
In order to keep hope alive, a plan was conceived
in which the rulebook would continue under a different
name ("Butthead-Toy-Company Wars" was
suggested at one point). The original authors
were somehow prevented from carrying out their
plan, so we took it upon ourselves, replacing
each instance of the offending L-word with the
more innocuous "Brik." As time
progressed (and new cool pieces and themes were
released by the Butthead Toy Company), we made
a few idle additions and modifications here and
there, but it was long before we really thought
to think of BrikWars as having an identity of
its own.
And so we are obligated to include Lego Wars
and Lego Wars II in our little wargame geneaology,
for completeness if nothing else.
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Download
Lego Wars (zip, 18k)
Download Lego
Wars II (zip, 78k)
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The
LEGO® Users' Group Network™
Todd Lehman and Suzanne Rich, 1998
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There
are a number of gathering sites and newsgroups around the
web, but The LEGO Users' Group Network, or LUGNET™, is
the undisputed king of them all. If you're looking for Lego
resources or information on the web, LUGNET is your first
stop.
LUGNET's
most important feature is its massive newsgroups section.
Although LUGNET does offer paid memberships, posting and discussion
is free to everyone; non-members just have to go through an
extra verification step when posting.
LUGNET's
newsgroups are the best place to look for other LEGO fans in your area.
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