BrikWars News
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December 21st, 2009 - Re-stealing the Battle Report List
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| Apollyon's armory guards irritate a Deadly Spaceman, with easily predictable results |
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Speaking of battle reports from 2009, Arkbrik's taken the trouble to collect links to a couple dozen of them, and has posted them to the forum in one big Battle Report List.
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December 17th, 2009 - Copenhagen Climate Conference
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| Why was Copenhagen selected for a meeting of world leaders? Easy access to Billund, experts say |
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There have been plenty of awesome battle reports coming in over the last couple of months that I've been too lazy to post, but there was no way I could let this one pass without comment. It's the first one I've seen to put Obama and his well-known superpowers to use in combat, to truly stupendous effect. This is a moment that will shape history.
The pictures aren't the best quality, but from start to epic conclusion this is truly a battle not to be missed.
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March 27th, 2009 - SkyNet discovers BrikWars
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| "Engaging in imaginative play helps my development!" |
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As all experienced BrikWars players know, playing with Lego, combined with learning that rules are made to be changed, leads directly and inevitably to massive psychotic explosions of violence. Surprising no one, this is the combination of factors that lead SkyNet to destroy humanity, as shown on tonight's episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
As much as I hate to promote anything on the Fox network, I felt that this one had to be shared.
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December 14th, 2008 - January Tournament at Loki's Games in Portland, Oregon
Nemo20k announces an upcoming tournament in January at Loki's Games in Portland, OR:
Loki's Games announces their first BrikWars Tournament in Portland, Oregon to be held on January 21, 2009 starting at 5pm.
All Players must pre-register, and must have an approved army list ready *before* Jan 21. We will be hosting army list workshops on Dec 10th, 2008 and Jan 7th, 2009 from 4pm until 8pm.
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December 14th, 2008 - Combat Serials
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| On Death War Day 2, NatalyaAF maneuvers her Assyrian cruiser to place the Czech fighter inside the barrel of the main cannon, right before hitting the fire button. |
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December seems to be the month for daily-update combat serials, starting with Reasonably Clever doing a QuikWars version of their annual LEGO Advent Calendar feature. It's the Town Calendar versus the Castle Calendar, fighting to the death while both attempt to free the imprisoned Santa Claus from evil Martians.
Pesgores followed up a little bit later with "Superproject Codename: Persogoras," a play-by-forum battle between the Rebels (played by Moronstudios), the Empire (OneEye589), the Pirates (Bonn-o-Tron), and the Droids (IVhorseman).
Last but not least, NatalyaAF followed suit with the Death War Project, making up for its later start with some of the best BrikWars action photography to date. The combined-forces battle sets the Assyrian Star Empire (pesgores and NatalyaAF), the Czech Republic (Moronstudios and AmmoMan), the Space Ninjas (Theblackdog), the Space Pirates (Rody), and the Gludavian Raiders (Niflheim) in deadly combat from clashing ground forces up to the mighty Assyrian space cruiser.
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December 6th, 2008 - DaCheez's Firefly-Themed Battle
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| In space, no one can hear your squad get sucked out a hull breach |
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Mercenaries, Alliance, and Reavers, oh my! DaCheez spent more photos on his troops messing with the space station's environmental controls than on what were reportedly some heavy firefights, but watching squads get crushed by artificial gravity and sucked out airlocks is pretty entertaining nonetheless.
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December 4th, 2008 - BrickArms remains awesome
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| Fox and the Daily Sun are against toy badguys |
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BrickArms just got slammed with some sensationalist nonsense by the British tabloid The Daily Sun, and the story went on to get picked up by Fox News. Leaving aside the discussion about what it says about Fox News that they happily use the soaraway Sun as a reliable news source, this serves to remind me that I'm way behind in taking about new BrickArms products released in the last couple of months. Which is a shame, because they're awesome.
(Before you read either article, if you're not aware already, BrickArms doesn't produce "al Qaeda terrorist" minifigs. Duh.)
Naturally, all this media attention has accomplished is flooding BrickArms with more orders than they can process. So feel free to run over there and check out the great new stuff, then weep in agony because you can't order any of it anymore. Thanks a lot, Fox News!
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December 1st, 2008 - More Battles
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| After several defeats at the hands of MNGG, the Clone Horde moves on to attack Professor Ken's Lego Coalition instead |
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With the holidays upon us, the pace of battles is increasing. What is it about time spent home with the family that inspires so much violence?
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November 2nd, 2008 - Bluebright's Time-Lapse BrikWars
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| A double leg amputation doesn't slow down the deadly Nestle Bunny. |
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Bluebright's hit the scene with what have to be the funniest pair of battle reports I've read in a long, long time. The artistic use of minifig blood (and of hot lava) should serve as an inspiration to all players.
What's more, he's included time-lapse videos for each battle, which is also awesome.
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October 30th, 2008 - Durandalski's Mission Battle
Durandalski and his sister toss over a hundred troops at each other, in a semi-heated battle between the forces of Commander Roland of Morfair and Princess Liader of Brinstar. Each side rolled dice to determine their secret mission objective, and then sent their armies into a battle of cataclysmic... surrendering.
Fortunately some of the surrendering units turned out to be faking it.
Durandalski's report includes the following passage, which is very satisfying:
"We estimated that over half of each of our forces, that's nearly 60 minifigs, were killed in an area about 1 and a half feet square. The bodies were piled up on each other, and the living had to be propped up on top of the dead. I also sniped my own medic, after he failed six revival attempts."
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September 30th, 2008 - Game Reviews
I came across a couple of BrikWars reviews today - the first is great for its use of the term "Brick nipples," but the second is simply amazing. It may be the single best BrikWars review I've ever listened to. It's only four episodes after the Dwarf Fortress review, and they only used the phrase "really retardedly broken" once.
The verdict: "This is a game where you can have dueling spider robots covered in ninjas crashing into each other under an airship exploding."
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August 11th, 2008 - August Battles
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| ktBombshell's stingray man is a pretty cool guy. He kills Steve Irwin and doesn't afraid of anything. |
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August sees a healthy share of violence, with battles between Mohawk and Professor Ken, further battles between OneEye589 and ktBombshell, and a chariot battle by Shaeph.
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August 5th, 2008 - Tactics 101 at Armchair General
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| Nice. But the name makes me wish their logo was an armchair in uniform. |
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Armchair General is putting up a pretty awesome series of articles - "Tactics 101," in which they cover a specific tactical concept each month and describe how to use it in play. While most BrikWars games will never reach this level of seriousness, I still find myself wishing I'd discovered this series months ago.
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August 4th, 2008 - Micro Space Wars
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| The Kassarian fleet prepares for battle. |
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Gladius posts to the forum with a full-fledged ruleset for microscale Lego spaceship combat, and cool microscale Lego spaceship photos to back it up.
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August 1st, 2008 - MNGG
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| MegaBlox Mountain stands ready to defy all invaders |
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Led by the football-obsessed Piltogg, the Minnesota Gamers Guild is making a name for itself for its genocidal crusades. Earlier struggles of ethnic cleansing against peach-colored minifigs are now being followed up with battles to wipe out the forces of Mega Bloks.
Be warned! Piltogg hasn't yet perfected the art of the line break, so you'll need to resize your browser window for some of the write-ups to line up correctly.
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July 29th, 2008 - Battle Updates
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| Dan's soldier pauses momentarily to freak out after his buddy up ahead falls off the bridge and into MOLTEN LAVA. |
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More battle reports are posting every month as the summer fighting season swings into full gear. This time around we've got dimension-hopping side quests, demon gates, assassins at McDonald's, exploding horses, a soldier with a grenade for a head, a mech with its feet on backwards, and HOT MAGMA. Not to mention an accounting error that destroys the world.
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July 22nd, 2008 - Andrew Colunga's LEGO WAR GAME
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| Looks like I'm not the only one to discover the wonderous potential of the Fire Ring |
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Andrew Colunga's ingeniously-named LEGO WAR GAME reminds me a lot of the Lego wargames I came up with as a kid, right down to the advanced graphite-on-paper publishing technology. The big difference is that his system resulted in several epic battles, while mine never got off the ground.
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July 12th, 2008 - Weird War II: NELUG's forbidden Nazi secrets game
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| Nazi paranoia over possible turncoats and spies causes some internal friction. |
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NELUG rings in again with another battle of amazing constructions and unnecessarily Byzantine rules as always - to the point that no one can sort out afterwards exactly what happened, but the photos are awesome nonetheless.
From Elroy's description on the forum: "I'd write up a battle report, but, honestly, parts of this battle were so complex as far as who was fighting who, that I'm not sure I'd get any of it right at this point."
... "Add in a few spies and traitors on both sides and eventually no one knew who was on what side, so you basically shot at anyone who was shooting at you.
It was awesome." |
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June 30th, 2008 - Pesgores's Triangle Jobs
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| After losing one arm, the Green Golem uses the other one to projectilize this storm trooper. |
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Deep in the ancient recesses of Portugal, the forces of Pesgores are battling away in a series of conflicts described only as Triangle Jobs. While the meaning of this phrase remains perpetually ambiguous, you can expect to see wildly malfunctioning rocket launchers, stormtroopers used as projectiles, and massive casualties from friendly fire.
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May 25th, 2008 - Little Armory is coming back
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| This knight looks forward to joining your army |
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After a seeming eternity away, word is filtering down across the AFOL forums that the Little Armory is coming back and bringing all its custom minifig weapons and equipment back to market. This is great news for anyone who missed them the first time around and whose minifigs are still looking for more ways to kill one another. Keep an eye on the Little Armory site for further bulletins as events warrant.
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