It’s 2012 and the Republican Presidential Primary is in full swing. Stephen Colbert has invited the four main candidates to have a debate during the Colbert Report. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich all have come to the debate in order to show America why they ought to be voted for. However, this late in the primary season things are desperate. Mitt wants to close the contest soon so he can focus on Obama, Newt’s floundering campaign is deeply in debt, Santorum sees his hopes dimming fast, and Ron Paul’s cult-like followers grow weary of Ron suffering loss after loss. There is only one solution… they must eliminate the competition.

Silent-sigfig runs this forum battle to determine the Republican Presidential nominee for 2012.

Election 2012 — The Politician Primary

Over two years ago, at the end of the 2009th Galactik Revolution, war was beginning. Some Assyrians had stolen a computer core from a secret Peach base underneath the surface of some god-forsaken Brittanian outpost. They were on their way back to the space port to return to their ship when the Zombie Apocalypse broke out. Faster than you can blink, approximately 500 minifigures would swarm the spaceport and fight to the death for the Computer Core, glory, and ossum. Guest appearances by Stubby, Brikthulu, and Manly Santa.

Warhead’s ZZD Top Thread

Judging has concluded on the second annual Halloween Hellhunt battle report contest, and Killer Karetsu’s “The Battle at Brikpass” has come out on top. The forces of both Count Shinypants and Dark Lord Krag Hag had the poor luck to be traveling through the Brikpass on the same day, and slaughter inevitably ensued.

Battles were judged by a team of five judges for a potential five points based on five categories: Gameplay, Photography, Violence, Writing, and Overall Appeal. These were combined, through mysterious Halloween math, to add up to a maximum potential score of 16. How does that work? Not even the judges know for sure.

Halloween Hellhunt – Annual Battle Report Contest

Killer Karetsu’s “The Battle at Brikpass” – 14 points

mgb519′s “Ambush Valley” – 13 points

Zahru II’s “The Dig” – 13 points

AlphaFalcon541′s “Last Stand on Raider Valley” – 12 points

Falk’s “Operation: Beachhead” – 12 points

BrickSyd’s “The Happy Ending Treason” – 12 points

Jodokast’s “Battle of Champions II” – 9 points

Sjosten’s “Desert Strike” – 8 points

Here we have some more excellent creations by our forum members. The featured picture is the Tigershark Super Hover Death Tank by fredde. Designed to compete with the super tanks that have been floating around the board since December, fredde decided to best everyone by making a hover tank instead of a normal one. Armed to the teeth, (literally) this tank is built to destroy. Check out links to some other cool stuff below. J+B designed some neat heavy troopers using the Explorien helmet, and Siceron and Coral made functioning minifig-scale compound-bows.

Tigershark by fredde

Heavy Troopers by James+Burgundy

Compound Bow Archers by Siercon and Coral

Everyone loves to see the epic destruction that can be wrought upon their cities and towns of plastic building bricks, but you have to remember that the cooler your creations are, the cooler they will look when destroyed. That’s why many members of the BrikWars forum like to dedicate hours of their day to building the most intricate and detailed vehicles, mecha, and buildings so that when it comes time for battle the ruined creations strewn about the field will be eye-catching and beautiful even when destroyed. For this post I have linked some of the more awesome creations that have been put up recently.

Skeiðbrimir by tunasailor

Spacecraft Galaxy by BrickSyd

SAF-32 Falcon by RoC77

Every week for the past month or so, Rev. Sylvanus is playing BrikWars with some friends down at Redcap’s Corner game shop in Philidelphia. On April 30th there will be a tournament, so if you live in the area you should check it out. This weekend’s battle was a grudge match between Rev’s OOF and dirtycajun’s Horror Corps. They’re fighting over a mysterious pod that crash-landed in a pond at the centre of the field. Who will win? Check the links below for this battle report and others.

April 16th Brikwar: @ Philly / Grudge Match

April 9 Brikwar: Mini-rep @ Philly

March 28 Brikwar: @ Philly

ForlornCreature posted an awesome battle report of a fight between the infamous Deadly Space Men and their sworn enemies, the Futuron. The Futuron trick the DSM into allowing them to land near their gas mining operation, but getting to the field doesn’t make you win the fight automatically. Read Forlorn’s first battle report to find out who will prevail.

DSM Civil War!

Hi everybody! Remember that video I was telling you about in the previous post? The “Lego Black Ops” one?

Within the same day, eBaum’s had already stolen it, slapped their logo on it, and started collecting ad revenue for it. Which is to be expected, that’s what they do. What pisses me off is that in the couple days since then, people have been sending me links to it as if it were the original content, which it isn’t, obviously.

I usually figure that that site has been around long enough that people know better than to pass around eBaum’s links, but some of you are pretty new to the internet and don’t know about those guys yet. So for those of you not clued in: DON’T USE EBAUM’S. Don’t visit it, don’t link to it, don’t put up with other people who do.

Their sole reason to exist is to steal original content from guys like me, pretend it’s theirs, and make money off it. Every time you visit a page on their site, and every time you send someone else there, you’re giving them ad revenue for their stolen work.

	eBaum explained in a cautionary animation
	eBaum explained on Wikipedia

Just saw a stop-motion video by Keshen8 that’s not to be missed – it runs like a highlight reel for BrickArms weaponry (though I think I spot at least a couple of Brickforge pieces in there as well – am I wrong?).

I try to update the links every now and then with new custom-weapons shops that catch my eye, but I really only get a tiny fraction of what’s out there, and there are a couple of sites that are much more dedicated and do a much better job.

Most of the customs news I follow these days comes from the Ugly Duckling at Bricklink minifig news blog and the FireStar Toys reseller site. These will give you a much better idea of the full range of minifig options available, and I figure this is as good an excuse as any to pass along some links.

	Keshen8′s channel on YouTube
	BrickArms custom molded weapons and custom minifigures
	BrickForge custom minifigure accessories
	The Ugly Duckling at Bricklink minifig news blog
	FireStar Toys

It has been around for a while, but it has never made it into the newsfeed. I’m talking about the BrikWiki — BrikWars’ wiki where you can learn about Triangleism, Orange Transparent, or the horrific events which took place at Hospital 555. Below I’ve linked some of the better-written pages. Go have a look:

	Orange Transparent Chainsaw
	Hospital 555
	Stat Card List