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Welcome, new Brikwarrior, to the fabulous and convoluted world of Brikwars!

This page will help you dive into the game and the community kanon that has been built out of two decades of Brikwars.

=How to play=
==Building an Army==
*ranged and melee soldiers
*Heroes
*Basic constructions
==Creating a Scenario==
*Balance
*Special effects
*Photography and storytelling
==Explaining it to Your Mom==
*rules summary
*how to let the other player think they are doing well
==Getting Ambitious==
*faction theming
*specialists
*Supernatural Dice
*awesome constructions
*forum battles

=Key Concepts=
==Philosophy==
====Misspelling====
Perhaps the first thing you noticed about Brikwars is the missing "c" from the word "brick." One of the most common tropes in Brikwars is to purposely misspell words to highlight their badassery. Replace a syllable of a word with "Brik," as in "Brikpokalypse." Use letter substitutions such as "K" for boring old "C," as in "Magik" or "Artifax." Punny names and outright misspellings fall under this concept. A similar concept is that "all lists start with 6."
====Kopyright====
Many things in Brikwars, including the brands of konstruction toys that the game is played with, fall under kopyright. Kopyright is a set of laws to encourage creators to get extra sneaky when stealing ideas from other creators. Brikwarriors draw from a Brikwars Canon that includes European History, Star Wars, Warhammer, Evangelion, Gundam, and classic LEGO themes. However, due to Kopyright, the concepts borrowed from these foundational texts are usually renamed and/or remixed to avoid litigation. For example, there is no such thing as a lightsaber(c) - but there is a laser sword.
====Rekonstruktion====
Human years are referred to as Brik Rekonstruktions. For example, the year 1985 is known as B.R. 1,985. The time elapsed in a B.R. is not correlated to the time in a human year, nor do all minifigures experience the same amount of time during a single B.R. Events may not even happen in chronological order in a B.R! This makes it a fairly useless tool for talking about history in the Brikwars Kanon. Sorry.
====Ossum====
The most important element of a Brikwar is Ossum (a misspelling of "awesome"). When choosing between following the game rules and doing the most ossum thing, do the most ossum thing. Much of what follows is just the most ossum stories and battles people have written.
====Fudge====
The second most important element of a Brikwar is Fudge. Fudge is what allows you to choose the ossum things and not get too wrapped up in the details of a game. When stuck on how to do something in game, just make up something that allows you to do the most ossum thing. Fudge is also liberally applied in retelling the Brikwars Kanon. See also Retkon.

==Weapons and Creations==
====Orange Transparent Chainsaw====
The most powerful minifig weapon in Brikwars is the Orange Transparent Chainsaw. It can cut through all materials, cannot be parried, and is usually wielded by the most epik characters. Transitively, Orange Transparent is the most powerful material in Brikwars. Other transparent materials exist and have interesting powers, and are even preferred by other factions, but they are always inferior to Orange Transparent.
====Nova Sword====
The second most powerful minifig weapon in Brikwars is the Nova Sword. This is typically a lightsaber hilt with a stack of transparent studs on it. In universe, it is an energy sword powered by a small pulsar in the handle. It is good for bashing heads in.
====SHIP====
The third most powerful minifig weapon is the SHIP. A SHIP is a space warship that is at least 100 studs long. This makes it a mobile, practically indestructible, fortress bristling with guns and filled with troops.
====Super Heavy Death Tank====
The SHDT is the land equivalent of a SHIP. It is not necessarily 100 studs long, but it is massive and ossum.
====Mecha====
SHIPs and SHDTs are the weapons people use when they want to win. Mecha is what you use when you're ossum. Why else would you bring a building sized melee weapon to a gun fight?
====Battlefield====
The ultimate weapon is the battlefield. Battlefields are traps created by Humans to lure dozens of minifigures to their deaths. Battlefields have killed more minifigures than even OTCs.

==Legendary Characters==
====Brikthulhu====
Brikthulhu is an ancient one presiding over the Brikverse. His goal is to destroy minifigurekind by imposing total sanity upon them. All apokalyptic events are related to Brikthulhu.
====Pacifass====
Pacifass is the antithesis of all things Brikwars. He likes Peace, Love, and Vegetables.
====Dimmies====
Dimmies are lovable child-like minifigures that are useless at things. Regular minifigures despise dimmies.
====Dungans====
Dungans and Shitgoats are icky poop worshippers. Regular minifigures kill these from a distance.

=History=
==Prehistory==
===Deadly SpaceMan===
===Rainbow War===
===Triangulist-FoBoB War===
==Modern Era==
===Peach Conflicts===
*Assyrian massacres, Death War
*45th Union
*Austrian Experiments
===Immortal War===
*Prelude
*Battle on Fico
*Warhead Shards
*Immortal League vs. Anti-Immortal Alliance
*ZZD
*Stalemate
===Medivo===
*??? stuff happens
===AN-TA War===
*Formation of TA
*Battle of New York
*Second Battle of New York
*M-Throne is around here?
===Ragnablok===
*Ninja_verse
*Fall of Trattoria
*Brootalz invasion
==Side Plots==
===Gold Sector Conflict===
*Many names for the same faction
*Mostly just Shulga grumping at people
===Polish War of Independence===
*USSSR
*Fighting
*Lietuva
===Magikallenik War===
*Praetoria and Omegalon
*Darkstorm
*Phoenicia
===Quest of Piltogg===
*See page
===Famous Standalones===
====Goatse Bunker====

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 ===Immortal War===
-The Immortal Empire was forged in B.R. 1,980 by the brikwarrior Warhead.  Over the course of nearly 30 B.R's, the Empire grew beyond its humble beginnings as a DSM empire to control its entire galaxy.  The Immortal Emperor's family grows beyond number. By the B.R. 2,009, the Immortals' home galaxy could no longer contain their ambitions, so the Emperor set his eyes on the nearby Galaxia Nehellenium, a galaxy full of nascent space empires ripe for invasion.
+''Main Page: [[Immortal War]]''
-The Emperor selected an adopted member of his family to lead the invasion, Warhead.  Warhead had established himself as one of the most ruthless and hardcore generals in the ranks of the Immortal Hordes.  Warhead chose the Gamma Corps' home world FICO to establish his beachhead.  At FICO, the Immortal Hordes discovered that Nehellenium would not be easily invaded, taking heavy losses from the battle.  Warhead himself was slain by the Gamma Corps leader Codename: Aegis.  Warhead, however, being immortal, instead shattered into shards, and murdered Aegis with his own decapitated head. [[http://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7355|//brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7355]]
+The [[Immortal Empire]] was forged in B.R. 1,980 in a galaxy neighboring Nehellenium.  Over the course of nearly 30 B.R's, The Immortals grew beyond their humble beginnings as a DSM colony into a galactic empire.  The Immortal Emperor's family grew beyond number and survived multiple internal conflicts.  By the B.R. 2,009, the Immortals' home galaxy could no longer contain their ambitions, so the Emperor set his eyes on the nearby [[Galaxia Nehellenium]], its nascent space empires ripe for invasion.
 ===Medivo===
 *??? stuff happens

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 ==Prehistory==
-In the beginning there was nothing.  Then, the [[Great Builder]] created [[Baseplates]], and [[minifig]]s to populate the baseplates.  The Great Builder separated the minifigs by theme and set them to war among themselves.  The greatest themes were [[Space]] and [[Castle]], and their wars were glorious.  Eventually, one champion emerged that was superior to all other minifigs, the [[Deadly SpaceMan]].
+In the beginning there was nothing.  Then, the [[Great Builder]] created [[Baseplates]], and [[minifig]]s to populate the baseplates.  The Great Builder separated the minifigs by theme and set them to war amongst themselves.  The greatest themes were [[Space]] and [[Castle]], and their wars were glorious.  Eventually, one champion emerged that was superior to all other minifigs, the [[Deadly SpaceMan]].
 ===Deadly SpaceMen and the Tron Lineage===
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 ===Rainbow War===
-The survivors of the DSM Civil War divided into mighty StarShip Civilizations.  Multiple factions banded together to form each Civiliation, united by common color schemes and doctrines.  Each built a massive StarShip to house its people and set out to seek a new home.  It is believed there were 48 of these, but only eight are recorded in history.  They are:
+The survivors of the DSM Civil War divided into mighty StarShip Civilizations.  Multiple factions banded together to form each Civiliation, united by common color schemes and doctrines.  Each built a massive StarShip to house its people and set out to seek a new home.  It is believed there were 48 of these StarShips, but only eight are recorded in history.  They are:
 * [[Johar, the Yellow Raiders]]
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 * [[Pantus, the Grey Threat]]
-These eight factions colonized the region of space surrounding the [[Nehellenium Galaxy]] and fought many epic wars there.  Many [[Brik Rekonstruction]]s passed, the original StarShips were scrapped for parts, and the factions continued to divide and evolve.  The people forgot their first purpose, and settled down on planets to form "societies" and "order."  This displeased the [[Great Builder]], but the [[Kanon]] had already begun to disrupt the natural cycle of Brik Rekonstruction
+These eight factions colonized the region of space surrounding the [[Nehellenium Galaxy]] and fought many epic wars there.  Many Brik [[Rekonstruktion]]s passed, the original StarShips were scrapped for parts, and the factions continued to divide and evolve.  The people forgot their first purpose, and settled down on planets to form "societies" and "order."  This displeased the [[Great Builder]], but the [[Kanon]] had already begun to disrupt the natural cycle of Brik Rekonstruktion.  For a time, the people fought only petty, local wars, and this was boring.
 ==Modern Era==
 ===Triangulist-FoBoB War===
 ===Peach Conflicts===
 *Assyrian massacres, Death War

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 *??? stuff happens
 ===AN-TA War===
 ''Main Page: [[Allied Nations - Third Alliance War]]''

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 ===AN-TA War===
 ''Main Page: [[Allied Nations - Third Alliance War]]''
-*Formation of TA
-*Battle of New York
+Through the course of the Immortal War, the factions of Nehellenium learned the value of diplomacy.  The [[Allied Nations]] was formed to provide structure to this new tool of war, and membership was mandatory.  The AN proved to be immediately controversial, and a group of nations known as the [[Third Alliance]] announced its intention to leave the Allied Nations assembly.  The primary reasons for the split were the AN's implicit acceptance of [[Peach]]es, and something about free [[beer]].
-*Second Battle of New York
-*M-Throne is around here?
+The Third Alliance was formed out of several vaguely germanic-styled states.  The founding members were [[Bavaria]], [[Akkadia]], and the Austrian Hegemony.  Later members included the [[Luchardsko Empire]], [[Neo Prussia]], and the [[RIN]], among others.  Having invited war on themselves from a number of nations with extremely powerful space navies, the TA began to rely on unconventional tactics.  They pitted small vessels and boarding parties against the enemy's battlecruisers, and used infiltrate-and-destroy strategies on land.  The war opened with [[Avalon]]ians kidnapping Angela, the President of [[Trattoria]].  The AN's answer was an invasion of [[ZMC]] mercenaries to harass and disrupt Avalon's operations.  The war continued, primarily in [[MicroSpace]] battles, following a pattern of TA forces trying to destroy supply lines and military assets as the AN drove wedges into the incompetency and in-fighting within TA leadership.  However, the AN was unprepared for the depth of conspiracy planned by the TA.  During a fairly standard engagement over a TA mining colony, Trattorian forces suddenly appeared and destroyed the AN coalition fleet.  [[Kaiserin Siri]], a rising politician, had engineered President Angela's kidnapping to instate herself as the head of state and achieve galactic domination.  The defection of Trattoria turned the tide of the war firmly in the Third Alliance's favor.  Using advanced portal technology, the TA made a direct strike against [[New York]], the political and economic center of the AN.  In an epic battle, the TA defeated the AN defense force.  A parallel strike against the capital of [[Britannia]], Pendragon, killed most of its government.  The AN surrendered and dissolved.
 ===Ragnablok===

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 *Austrian Experiments
 ===Immortal War===
-*Prelude
+The Immortal Empire was forged in B.R. 1,980 by the brikwarrior Warhead.  Over the course of nearly 30 B.R's, the Empire grew beyond its humble beginnings as a DSM empire to control its entire galaxy.  The Immortal Emperor's family grows beyond number. By the B.R. 2,009, the Immortals' home galaxy could no longer contain their ambitions, so the Emperor set his eyes on the nearby Galaxia Nehellenium, a galaxy full of nascent space empires ripe for invasion.
-*Battle on Fico
 *Warhead Shards
 *Immortal League vs. Anti-Immortal Alliance