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Affilliation
Wargame with Brick Constructs thru BrikWars!
Want to wargame? Can’t, paint/afford figs if your life depended on it? Have piles of LEGO collecting dust in a bucket somewhere?
Despair not my acrylically challeneged, financially downtrodden friend! If you can rummage through your attic and find the thousands of LEGO bricks you failed to swallow in your youth, then there is still hope to pacify your miniature wargaming needs and still excercise your creativity!
For you my friend, there is BrikWars: Building Brick Combat System[sic]!
BrikWars is a set of rules for miniature wargaming using building block pieces and figues like LEGO, Mega Bloks, etc (I’ll refer to these peices as “briks”). The rules are created by Mike Rayhawk, which he based on an earlier endeavor called Legowars made by Eric O’Dell and R. Todd Ogrin.
The rulebook is tounge-in-cheek right from the start, which sets the informal “fun” mood the reader presumably should take. The rules for fig, weapon, armor, and vehicle/construct valuation allow you to cost a fig/construct based on how it’s built. Other factors, such as abilities or weaknesses can be factored to the fig/construct cost (some of which are in a separate document). Combat procedures are simple and require ordinary d6 (6 sided dice). The author points out that the rules are there for those who want them, and players are free to ignore aspects of the rules as they please.
The rules are intended to be a guide rather than canon. The whole idea of using briks is to unleash freedom and creativity, but runaway freedom and creativity in wargaming is not so much a “game” as it is “role-playing”. BrikWars is an attempt to produce a modicum of order to be able to play a wargame using briks with a semblance of balance and still provide an avenue for creativity. Think about it, minis in barbarian garb toting blasters! Sword weilding police teams in an ambulance tricked up with pincers and cannons! And yet you still have the feasibility of beating a fully armed spaceship! The possibilities are endless!
For me, the best thing about BrikWars is that for every HP of damage dealt, you can actually have the satisfaction of breaking apart pieces of the fig/construct damaged! Smash that tank brik for brik! Then, reassemble it again for the next game, perhaps with less hull in the front and another death ray on the left. How often can you do THAT with your week long assembled and painted Warcaster?
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