BRIKWARS is the plastic-brick tabletop wargame that throws the peaceful worlds of construction toys into wanton mayhem!

Bring and build your own armies, vehicles, and monsters in an all-out war for deconstruction toy glory, with a robust system to incorporate whatever you create. If you can build it, you can bring it to battle in BRIKWARS!
Rules and Supplements

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 you̢۪ve 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

The Dread Pirate Two-By-Two

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!

Stat Cards

Minifig Cards

Want to check your unit stats without having to page through your notes, or worse, the rulebook? Check out these handy stat cards. There̢۪s 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.

Blank
Cards
One-Sided
Blank

Two-Sided
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Two-Sided
Blank, No Outline
Photoshop
Templates
PSD Format
Color
Template
(2,560k)
Grayscale
Template
(1,170k)

Core
Rules Minifigs
The
Minifig

Hero
Pilot (Alternate
Version: Rider)
Officer
Horse
Bonus
Units
Scout
(Alternate
Version
)
Ninja
Ninja Scum
Fleebnork
Knight̢۪s
Kingdom Units
Jayko
the Quick

Danju the Wise
Santis the
Strong

Rascus the
Agile
BrikWars 2001: Advanced Rules

The Deadly Spaceman, circa 2001

The 2005 Core Rules are pretty straightforward, we̢۪d like to think, but don̢۪t let them lull you into a false sense of security. BrikWars players̢۪ 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 it̢۪s 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 Trooper̢۪s 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.

BW2001 Text Files
BrikWars
2001: Table of Contents
2001-contents.txt
(9k)
Book
Zero: Introduction

Legal Disclaimer (abridged)
In a Nutshell
Foreword
Introduction
2001-bookzero.txt
(60k)
Book
One: Skirmish
The Basic Guide
The Trooper̢۪s Arsenal
2001-bookone.txt
(108k)

Book
Two: Battle
Advanced Combat
Interacting with the Environment
Large Targets
Vehicles
Siege Weapons

2001-booktwo.txt
(214k)
Errata
(6k)

Book
Three: War
Standard Combatants
Alternate Species
2001-bookthree.txt
(140k)
Book
Four: Campaign

Campaigning
2001-bookfour.txt
(42k)
Supplement
SP: Supernatural Powers

2001-superpowers.txt
(60k)
BW2001 Downloads
BrikWars
2001 and
Supplement SP: Supernatural Powers
text files, zipped
bw2001-txt.zip
(204k)
 
BrikWars
2001

Acrobat PDF
2001-brikwars.pdf
(1,826k)
Supplement
SP: Supernatural Powers

Acrobat PDF
2001-superpowers.pdf
(239k)