Gorchek has come up with a novel idea: a solo BrikWars campaign, pitting his own mercenary forces against skullduggering pirates, with a couple of custom rules to keep the two sides’ deployment and responses unpredictable. His adventures are narrated in the Frappr forum and Flickr photo gallery.

	Gorchek’s battle writeup on the Frappr forum
	Detalient’s battle photos on Flickr: Mission 1
	Detalient’s battle photos on Flickr: Mission 2

IVhorseman’s posted to the Frappr forums with news from Redrock City, which has been reduced to a smoldering ruin of crumbling Pepsi-carton buildings and styrofoam rubble by the Galactic Corporate Alliance’s bombing campaign. The Galactic Union has moved in to occupy a section of the remains, but GCA forces are moving in to evict them from their positions.

	IVhorseman’s Frappr thread
	IVhorseman’s Brickshelf gallery

I don’t know who these guys are (apart from all of their names, multiple face shots, and army photos), but they are awesome.

I see a lot more BrikWars photos going up on flickr and mocpages nowadays as opposed to Brickshelf, which works out nicely because adding captions makes everything more hilarious. It’s tough to pick the best quote out of so many possibilities offered in this gallery; sober rules clarifications like “Should a hero manage to ascend this tower and drink the contents of the Goblet of Command without getting a brain freeze (skill rating 5), they will gain control of all the natives and monkeys surrounding it” are followed with “Easily deflecting enemy armor, the Baby Dragon growls and humps a rock” and a picture entitled simply “Nerds.”

Watch for burning monkeys, the disturbing Axephant, and Prince Klaus Von Awesome jumping a river of lava on the back of a crocodile (did I say awesome already? – because, AWESOME).

Triple Faction Brikwars Chaos: The Battle of Fleebnork Pass on Flickr

Inspired by MOCs of the Star Wars Sail Barge, NELUG returned to the battlefield with a fleet of steampunk airships fighting it out over the desert.

Combat raged on for ten hours, with “every form of battle imaginable: gunfire, ramming, boarding actions, hand-to-hand. Even the dreaded Sandworms of Kar’Zuba got into the action, gorging on troopers abaonding their skiffs as they went down.”

	Shaun Sullivan’s post to Lugnet
	Shaun’s Brickshelf gallery

Unruly NELUG hooligans showed up at OurCon 17 at UMass-Amherst to represent the BrikWars in a series of bloody showdowns. Four recent Nelug battles saw successful reprises in convention form: It Takes A Pillage, VersaillesPunk, The Tox Uthat, and NasKart.

	Wayne McCaul’s OurCon 17 article on Nelug.org
	Wayne’s OurCon 17 gallery on BrickShelf.com
	The New England LEGO User’s Group

Peter writes in to present Moron Studios’ new BrikWars fansite, with reports of their campaigns for the Bird Crown in the towns of Old and New Brikinville.

Billed as “the most hobo-filled town in history,” Brikinsville has been host to a well-documented series of battles between vikings, assassins, the Mithril Knights, the undead, and (you guessed it) hobos. The Moron Studios site is full of photos and reports about the town and its inhabitants, as well as the battles that take place there. The Moron models are especially noteworthy for finding ways to intermix Mega Bloks features and elements into the Lego landscape.

Moron Studios BrikWars

The Nelug guys have gone in for historical re-enactment, this time taking less dramatic license than they may have earlier with their reinterpretation of such events as the Treaty of Versailles.

Elroy Davis posts on Lugnet to share the tale of forty law-abiding British redcoats, their heroic attempt to march from one end of a road to the other, and of the forty American colonial insurgents who ambushed them from hiding in defiance of all rules of warfare.

	Elroy’s Lugnet post
	Scenario rules for “Battle Road” (PDF, 217k)
	Shaun Sullivan’s photos on BrickShelf (PDF, 217k)

Christmastime is the busiest time of the year for those of us with jobs in the toy industry, which maybe goes partway to explaining why I’m two months behind in answering e-mails – sorry everybody!

While I’m trying to work my way through the backlog, check out the latest entry in NELUG’s Year of BrikWars – a re-enactment of the Treaty of Versailles, except that this time it’s between the English and French and naturally everything goes horribly wrong.

Also, for everyone writing in about how hard it is to find other BrikWars players in the area, I’ve started up a BrikWars Frappr map. Add a map pin to your location and see who else is around!

	Evil Wayne’s post about BrikWar: VersaillesPunk
	Wayne’s VersaillesPunk BrickShelf gallery
	Shaun’s VersaillesPunk BrickShelf gallery
	BrikWars Frappr

Halloween is always a special time of year for BrikWars. Besides being BrikWars’ birthday, it also means that it’s time for Shaun and Wayne to pull the big reveal on their annual BW:666 game. This year it’s the Pipton Farmstead Terrors, in which otherworldly creatures take a special opportunity to wipe out the last surviving participant from last year’s Brikington Manor Horrors.

Halloween 2005 marks BrikWars’ tenth birthday, so that’ll make our upcoming book a special Tenth Anniversary Edition. Keep your eyes peeled.

	Shaun Sullivan’s “The Pipton Farmstead Horrors” gallery on BrickShelf
	Back where it all began in 1995: BrikWars’ humble origins