If you haven't heard of
Brick Wars before, it's a term refering to the utilisation of
LEGO in a
table-top war game scenario, making it a type of
miniature wargaming, since you'll be using LEGO miniature figurines (
minifigs).
Most table-top
RPG (Role-Playing Games) are based around
dices and a set of
rules. This can be in the form of Dungeons and Dragons (
D&D) and Wargaming (like
Warhammer 40,000), but both usually either use their own figures (which can either be purchased or made yourself), or just using imagination (like using glass fish tank pebbles in D&D).
In Brick Wars, since you're using LEGO, unlike other forms of table-top RPG games, you can construct anything you want with LEGO! Want to play a game about forest folk invading a castle? Build the buildings and scenes yourself!
To give you an idea about Brick Wars,
BrickGamers have in the past conducted our own Brick Wars games all the way back since 2006 - that's nearly 4 years of Brick Wars! Over time we have managed to refine the rules to cater more for LEGO and less for typical desktop RPG games.
If you're interested to conduct your own Brick Wars (or if you have a lot of LEGO and have no idea what to do with them), you might want to take a look at a sample Brick Wars below to see if it's your cup of tea. Remember - Brick Wars doesn't only have to be about medieval battles - you can have a modern-day City theme being attacked by terrorists with police!
If you're wondering what's the
City Tower Crane doing there, it's to position and move the Dragon:
See how you can make use of your LEGO if you just collect them or don't know how/don't do
MOC (My Own Creation)?
To see the whole battle of this one of many past
BrickGamers' Brick Wars, visit our
Brick Shelf Gallery
here to see how this battle began - and ended! Just click the
Next link on the page (
top right) once you're there to go through the whole story.
