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Mike - August 8, 2006 - Brick Links, Brick Wargames
Looks like LEGO is going for army-builder sets in a big way this year, likely related to the surprise success of last year’s Knights’ Kingdom chess set even despite the replacement of the white team with the somewhat less-inspiring color of Barbie blue. The medieval lines this year have already shown unabashed nods to the army-builder crowds, with the Knights’ Kingdom “Battle at the Pass” set and the Vikings even more up-front “Army of Vikings,” which is good news for BrikWars fans. But they’ve just also announced the upcoming show-stopper of army-builder sets: this year’s chess set is Vikings themed, and this time they decided to go with both sides being awesome instead of just the one.
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Brick Wargames
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.
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Mike - August 6, 2006 - Brick Links, Brick Wargames
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.
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