There are no construction bricks in this video, but fish? Check. Blasphemy? Check. Zombie cowboys? Check.

These may be some of the most BrikWarsy fifteen minutes ever set to film. Lazarus’s resurrection, in particular, is as fine an example of a Heroic Feat as I’ve ever seen.

Fist of Jesus

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.

	Bluebright’s Intro Battle #1
	Bluebright’s Battle of the Butts

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.”

Durandalski’s Mission Battle

The verdict: “This is a game where you can have dueling spider robots covered in ninjas crashing into each other under an airship exploding.”

	Play This Thing Game Reviews: Tabletop Tuesday: BrikWars
	Oleetku Studios Freeware Game Review #15: BrikWars (scroll down to episode 15)

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.

	Tactics 101 on Armchair General
	Armchair General magazine

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.

	Micro Space Wars by Lukas W.P. v1.8
	Gladius’s microfleet Flickr gallery

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.

	Aug 1: MNGG’s Megablox vs. Lego Battle II write-up
	Jul 20: MNGG’s Space Race write-up
	Jul 20: MNGG’s Battle of the Bloody Books write-up
	Mar 2: Piltogg’s Megablox v. Lego I gallery on BrickShelf

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.”

	Alfredjr’s Weard War II BrickShelf gallery
	TaltosVT’s questionable attempt to explain this battle on the BrikWars forums

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.

Little Armory Toys

Doodstormer’s been hard at work in his home sticker factory, making custom uniform decals and accessories for new minifig factions and game styles.

	Doodstormer’s custom characters
	Armies of Terra
	Capture the Flag squads for FPS-style battles

Another summary post this month – February sees a bunch of folks playing their first battles, or at least posting pictures for the first time. My favorite line comes from spacetime_d20′s write-up for the Archipelago Gaming Guild’s game, describing Sandra’s retroactive base placement strategy:

“Sandra, in charge of Archaeologists Inc., went first. Her first move was to snag the nearest treasure chest. After being informed that she would come up half an inch short on the movement, she nudged her base that much to the left. Presto! Within range to loot the chest!

My response: ‘She’s got the hang of this already!’”

	Feb. 06: Carrnevil9′s “Vikings vs. Exo Pilots” Play-n’-Post Solo Battle
	Feb. 19: James+burgundy’s “zomibe batle” BrikWars forums thread
	James+burgundy’s “zomibe batle” BrickShelf gallery
	Feb. 23: NELUG’s “Battlestationesque Alien Spaceship Game” BrickShelf gallery
	Feb. 26: The Archipelago Gaming Guild’s “Capture the Flag” illustrated write-up
	Feb. 29: G-Man’s “Battle at the ruins of Tel’far,” a very creepy forum thread
	GJanse’s “Battle at the ruins of Tel’far” battle writeup on BoardGameGeek

January’s been a busy month on the forums. Battle photos were zipping by left and right faster than I had time to post them. Here are links to some more of this month’s highlights:

	Jan 01: Gorchek’s solo mercenary campaigns
	Jan 12: Moron Studios’ Undead Survival Mod
	Jan 13: The Lizard King’s Space Troopers vs. Pirates vs. Imperial Soldiers vs. Knights battle
	Jan 15: LegoEggo’s Viking Massacre
	Jan 19: Moron Studios’ First Big Battle
	Jan 20: Captainnomouth’s First Battle for Emerald Base (Warning! annoying music)
	Jan 26: Piltogg’s play-n’-post battle, in honor of Olothontor
	Jan 26: James+burgundy’s Zombie Massacre, in honor of Piltogg
	Jan 26: Several battles on the Battle-Gaming of Massachusetts site
	Jan 27: Matt S.’s solo BrikWar
	Jan 27: Kidko’s Battle of the Sol Dies

Following Evil Tobbacconist’s call for the forum community to join together and develop the greatest army ever devised, events took a metalocalyptic turn when resident genius Almighty Benny commandeered the reins.

Skipping the lubricating preamble of an opening act (we can only assume that if there was a lead-in band, it arrived pre-slaughtered by the metalness of what was about to occur), the members of FjordHammer burst forth from their Battle Stage to wreak destruction over all lesser forms of warfare.

	Almighty Benny introduces FjordHammer in the Community Built Army thread on the forums
	Skitzo’s FjordHammer gallery on BrickShelf

	Leonardo812′s BrikWars Trailer on YouTube
	The BrikWars Trailer thread on the forums

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