Credits

It would be impossible to list all the people and groups who have contributed their time, ideas, suggestions, and criticism to make BrikWars what it is today.  We're not going to let that stop us from trying to mention as many of them as possible.  So, without further ado, we'd like to give special thanks to the following individuals, in order of appearance:

Eric O'Dell and Todd Ogrin, who pioneered the plasic brick wargame genre in 1991 with Lego Wars and reinvented the game in the 1995 sequel, Lego Wars II.  The two of them went into hiding following legal persecution by the Lego Group, who questioned the appropriateness of their unauthorized use of the trademarked word LEGO® *.

* - The word LEGO® is a registered trademark of The Lego Group.  For more information on this and other astonishing legal revelations please see our disclaimer.

Brian "BJ" Rea, who taught us everything we know about gaming philosophy, including a Nazi-like intolerance for the disgusting antics of the cursed Anorak.  Through dedicated field experimentation, BJ developed the methodology for the employment of the very first Hammer of Discipline, providing the long-sought empirical proof that repeated concussions improve the playing style of even the most recalcitrant nerds.

Joe and Dave Rayhawk and Company, who usually get the first crack at playtesting and editing new rules and ideas, but are otherwise mostly useless.  Many of the statistics for collisions and weapon damage were determined by whacking Joe with a variety of large objects and making a comparative analysis of the results.

Chad Bagaasoc, who in 1997 agreed to put BrikWars up on his student website at Oregon State University, making it the first BrikWars home page on the Internet.  He even went so far as to make a graphic out of the word 'BrikWars' built out of Lego bricks, an early ancestor to our current logo above.  Chad hosted the BrikWars site until October 1998, when we finally got off our lazy butts to create and host a site ourselves.

Eric Joslin and Shaun Sullivan, who played a small game of BrikWars in February 2000, and went on to make a website about it.  Their little website sparked interest on LUGNET and in Lego users' groups around the world, and eventually inspired the BrikWars 2000 revision.  Since that time, Eric and Shaun have been BrikWars' poster children.  Besides staging regular battles with awesome models, their ideas, suggestions, and stories have had (and continue to have) a huge influence on the development of the game.

Todd Lehman and Suzanne Rich, who created the LEGO® Users' Group Network™ (www.lugnet.com) in 1999.  What would the Lego community be without LUGNET?  It would still be mired in the rec.toys.lego newsgroup, a sad prospect at best.  The lugnet.gaming.brikwars discussion group has become the unofficial forum where players discuss BrikWars and organize games, and BrikWars continually benefits from the ideas raised in this ongoing conversation.

Gino Melone and Adrian Drake, who are never satisfied with what the rulebook has to offer.  Not only are these guys a veritable fountain of new ideas, they take the added steps of drafting new rules to support their ideas, playtesting the proposed rules, and then making nifty web pages about them.

NELUG, BLOC, WAMALUG, STUDS, and all the local clubs that make web pages about their BrikWars battles.  The pictures and commentary on these sites are more entertaining than anything the rulebook could possibly offer and have been a huge inspiration to everyone.

Wayne McCaul, whose generosity in donating time and effort to designing, formatting, and producing BrikWars in .pdf format defies explanation.

We'd also like to thank Stephen F. Roberts for Jain's Battle Reports and MiniFig Death; Neil Silverman, for his careful analysis and fine-tuning of some of BrikWars' mathematical foibles; Jason Catena, for many valuable suggestions, especailly concerning Japanese medieval combat; Jason Rowoldt, for his inspired scenario-based battle campaign; Jeff Christner, for a wealth of suggestions while the 2000 revision was coming together; and all the dozens of other people who sent in great ideas through email or on LUGNET.