Virtual minifigs come apart even easier than the plastic kind.

Martin van Haeften and Brenny Pagniello write in with two new brick wargames. I haven't had time to look at either too closely yet, but feel free to poke around their sites.

Martin's LegoWar is an online multiplayer empire-building game that looks to be a web-based callback to Door games of old, for those of you who remember the days of old when we were still celebrating the miraculous advance from 300 to 1200 baud modems. The game seems to have completed several iterations and special in-game events.

Brenny's Blok-Lok is a little closer to the kind of thing we're used to seeing, a quick and easy minifig tabletop combat game pared down to bare essentials.

	Martin van Haeften's LegoWar
	Brenny Pagniello's Blok-Lok

Brik: Tactics battles result in a lot of dismemberments.

Jamie Fristrom of GameDevBlog writes in:

"I bet you get a lot of e-mail from annoying people who say, "Hey, look at how I changed BrikWars, because I didn't like it the way it was, and blah blah blah." This is another one of those e-mails. Anyhow, I just posted my mod at www.gamedevblog.com, if you're interested - it's like QuikWars but even Quiker. Once you've set up, anyway."

Jamie's "Brik: Tactics" is a cool little mod that bases damage on chopping off minifig limbs, creating a horrific scene of mutilated combatants and discarded body parts strewn across the battlefield. Awesome!

(As an old-school Lego guy, I never took this route - the minifigs of the Eighties could have their shoulders and hips detached, but after a certain number of times they wouldn't go back on again. Minifigs today are manfuactured to be more durable, so battle mutilation is a lot more feasible nowadays, but old habits dies hard.)

Although described as a BrikWars mod, "Brik: Tactiks" is a pretty unique and full-featured game in its own right, with a number of features that make it well worth a look. I especially like the modified initiative rules, and the callouts to influences from other wargames.

	Brik: Tactics
	GameDevBlog

Giant Fighty Robots! Who can resist their fighty allure?

This month Vincent Baker released one of my very favorite brick-based games as a commercial product - Mechaton is a game that's impossible to not love, combining battling Lego mechs with some very clever and elegant dice mechanics.

Unfortunately the Lumpley Games site seems to be in some kind of transition state between discussing the esoterics of the game and actually trying to sell it, so it's not completely easy to find all the relevant material just yet. I've gone through and collected good links here so you can connect the dots.

	Lumpley Games
	The original MechaTon rules PDFs
	A Mechaton play report between Vincent, J, and Emily
	"MECHATON: GIANT FIGHTY ROBOTS" for sale at the Lumpley Games online store

It's all about the bricks - even the BOW logo is made out of Lego elements.

Here's something I've been hoping to see someone try, a wargame using nothing but bricks, from dice to rulers to stat sheets. Alban NANTY has just announced his Bricks-Only Wargame on the Classic-Castle forums, and it's played from top to bottom with Lego elements.

	The Bricks Only Wargame
	Banban's announcement on the Classic-Castle forums

Check out some great work with custom graphics on Fryslayer's cloaks and banners.

A couple of guys on the Classic-Castle forums have started posting their battle reports comic-book style. Sibley's using the standard BrikWars rules, while Fryslayer uses a homebrew variant geared to the more serious wargamer entitled, appropriately enough, Fryslayer's Medieval War Gaming System.

	Fryslayer's battle galleries
	Sibley's battle
	Fryslayer's Medieval War Gaming System, posted to the Classic-Castle forums

This hungry alien will be happy to welcome you to Illusionary Craft.

I haven't had a lot of time to post lately, so a bunch of links have been piling up in my slush file. Today I was checking out one of them, a freshly-released brick wargame entitled "BATTLE!"

BATTLE! is a pretty straightforward medieval-army game, with a little more realism than most of the other brick games in the genre. I was interested to see that the game is part of a larger site called Illusionary Craft, with LEGO models, battle photos, and an attached blog covering not only questions about the game but also part customizing and reviews of LEGO sets.

The site looks like it's pretty new, but even in the early stages of development it's still worth a visit.

	BATTLE!
	Illusionary Craft