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1) Do you have to build your own soldiers, vehicles, and other such weaponry? 2) Do you have to bring your own Lego .. collection .. to a Brik War event? 3) How long does a typical event last? 4) The next event is April 29th. Where? LegoMasterLuke (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brikwars
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(...) lugnet.org.us.nelug (...) Massachusetts. Ugh. "Mom, can I have $90 for a bus fare to Massachusetts to meet with some strangers I hardly even know?" What sort of event is Brikwars? Are you supposed to bring your own Lego models, or are Lego (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brikwars
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(...) next (...) Wow I almost missed this in .duplo. Followups set to lugnet.fun.gaming Well we just had our first NELUG Brikwars event last Saturday in Waltham Massachusetts so we are on the East Coast all-be-it the Northern end of the East Coast. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: NELUG Brickwars 04/01/00 pics are up.
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(...) Well, the mechanics and rules can be found online at: (URL) a more general level, the game is a wargame played by two or more players. You build armies of minifigs and vehicles, and use the rules to have them blow each other up, and create (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NELUG Brickwars 04/01/00 pics are up.
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I keep hear talk about these kinds of games, but I guess I'm not "hip" enough to understand them. How do they work? jt Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) fun (...) idea (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general)
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| | NELUG Brickwars 04/01/00 pics are up.
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Here are the first pic's from the NELUG Brikwars event. As Eric J. said fun was had by all and we have already begun discussions for a second Brikwars event where we are not as constrained on time. I personally had a great time and I am not much of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: wargames?
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(...) Here's a few I didn't see on your list: Lew Therin Telamon's "Lego Wars III" at (URL) and D.R. Radford's "The Ultimate Space Lego Combat Sim" at (URL) Vollmer's "Lego Fantasy Battle" at (URL) Gyugyi's "Renegade Bricks" at (URL) also keep a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: BrikWars
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(...) The original reason we did that was this: you might spend hours and hours building your really cool vehicles (and bases), but even the most heavily customized SpaceMan rarely takes more than half a minute. So we figured, any players who put (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Brikwars Playtest Photos
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(...) And just let me say, we are still planning on mentioning that action to the UN, you black-hearted villian. Ooooh! <shakes fist angrily> eric (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: LEGO Pentominoes
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(...) There is a Tetris thing on the KEN-TUCKEY Works site. Alan (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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Okay, now that you have your pentominoes, combine them to make a 3x4x5 solid... 8) Rob ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: LEGO Pentominoes
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(...) Wow, that's pretty cool! I can imagine Tetris like that too! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Dragon*Con - Steve Jackson's Lego Pirate Game
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Hi! I need your help. :-) I'm trying to get the people who run Dragon*Con [1] here in Atlanta to invite Steve Jackson [2] to the 'con this July, *specifically* to have him run his Lego Pirate Game [3]. In order to improve my chances of accomplishing (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.org.us.dixielug, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) Agreed :) What would be nice is to have a series of look-up cards graded by completeness level. For example, when attacking a figure on horseback, does the attacker attack the horse, or the rider? (Lev 1) Assune that you are attacking the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) rules, (...) I like the rules you made up, Richard, especially the HP idea. Seems like Tony's ideas (they appear briefly on his magic users page) are gonna turn out cool as well. (...) CW is in planning now. The point of it (check out (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) You found everything. I haven't posted any of the actual rule set. While designing, I've been making a bunch of creations and mostly wanted to show some off. =] (...) When designing a game, there is always the dilemma of 'rule simplicity' vs. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) I couldn't find any of the rules! Only two pages of cool magic info.. love those staffs though! The rules that we made up were very simple, mainly because that made it easier to remember them, as we thought of them as we went along.. but I'd (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) You mean (URL)? Yeah, maybe a little link from that page to /lugnet/fun/gaming/ would make sense? Certainly as 'gaming' seems to suggest all forms of gaming, not just computer games. Richard (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) That is true, but "human" mini-figs have a maximum of 4 hits in my game rules, so one piece/hit would be fine. Just yesterday, I updated my web page that gives a sort of "sneak peek" into my game rules (I'm afraid it's a bit too long to fit (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) Glad to help! But in all fairness, it was my friends idea - not mine, so I can't claim credit for it :) If you want more than just a few HP per figure, you could use different colours - black equals five red etc. Or something more intuitive, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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(...) This is great! I have been working on a Lego wargame of my own, and one of my stumbling blocks (no pun intended) was how to keep track of hit points for figures. I had been placing my soldiers on plates to keep them in formation (and to keep (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: info on pirate game (and brickwars)
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Franklin W. Cain wrote in message ... (...) or (...) Just follow the link to my gaming links page from (URL) just go straight to my page: (URL) there are any sites dealing with gaming with LEGO toys that I have missed, please let me know so I can (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: info on pirate game (and brickwars)
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(...) The Pirate Game created by Steve Jackson is at "(URL) don't recall the URL of the Pirate Game created by Stephen W. Gabriel, but I believe that there's a link to it from one of Steve Jackson's pages (click on the URL above and look around). (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | info on pirate game (and brickwars)
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Im fairly new around here, but I have been hearing bits and pieces about a couple of games people have been playing with legos. Im interested in learning more but havent been able to find much on either the pirate game or brickwars. can anyone point (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: GM Charts for Pirate Game
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(...) Mmmm, put me down for a set too ;-) The next Sydney AFOLs (tentatively called Studs) get together is set for 2 April, and we might have a go at a game Richard Parsons Still baldly going..... (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates)
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| | GM Charts for Pirate Game
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I'm wondering if anyone might happen to have the GM charts for Steve Jackson's Pirate Game. I asked Steve several months ago when they might show up on the web site, and he said they would be going up as soon as he could get some help with them, at (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: BrikWars
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(...) Maybe it's because a vehicle is way cooler than 5 puny SpaceMen? I haven't played BrikWars, just read through the rules once or twice (mostly for the funny bits). But it seems like a legitimate approach is that the main focus is the vehicles, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | BrikWars
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Does anyone else out there play BrikWars? I played my first game on Saturday, and enjoyed it immensely, but there are some... err, well, foibles of the system that I think could be ironed out. For example: Vehicles seem to be too inexpensive for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Simple (but fun) Castley Strategy Game(y)
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The Setup ---...--- We decided on the theme first - classic good vs evil, this worked well as it allowed me to lead an army of skeletons, zombies and timmies against smiley castle folks. As with all these games - the more space you have the better, (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Real time computer Lego war game
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There's a plug-in for a game called Myth II, entitled 'Leggo My Myth'. It is based on Lego and includes Swordsmen, Crossbowmen, Wizards, Dragons, and a few more units. You can find the web page for it from the crossroads section of (URL) (when it's (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: wargames?
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(...) There are several links, check out my page at (URL) I happen to be missing any, please let me know. I think it would be great to have these links on Lugnet (and someone needs to help Steve Jackson get onto Lugnet, apparently he has tried and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | wargames?
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Todd, I know of (at least) two different wargames for use with Lego Pirates that are on the Web. Would it be appropriate for these URLs to be listed in the "Links/Resources" section of the "lugnet.fun.gaming" page? Thanks. Franklin (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.admin.general)
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.gaming)
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Welcome to lugnet.fun.gaming, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.fun.gaming (group): LEGO-centered gaming: puzzles, building challenges, role-playing games, strategy games, treasure hunts, etc. lugnet.fun.* (hierarchy): LEGO-centered (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.gaming)
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