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I made these small ships to save money for naval wargaming. Used them with Sam Mustafa's Nimitz ruleset.

Brassbound is a tabletop wargame you can play with the building bricks and models you already own. 

The game is designed around two armies duking it out and supports both solo and team play. Most matches complete in under 30 minutes.

The Learn to Play scenario, Core Rulebook, and First Campaign are all free. You can buy the parts for two entire armies for less than the cost of buying a single unit from more popular franchises. 

Brassbound is an alternate history story where in 1917, a science experiment gone wrong nearly leads to the end of the world. Nightmarish creatures known as the Jötunn invade the world and humans have to make titanic war machines called Brassbounders to fight them off. Humanity eventually triumphs, but at a cost. The world is now very different and humanity is split into rival factions. Brassbound: Adamantine Dawn takes place a generation later when tensions between those rivals reach a boiling point, following a second Jötunn invasion. 

Brassbound is a fast paced skirmish game

There is nothing worse than showing up to play a game, only to realize you've lost before the first dice has been rolled. Brassbound isn't like that; the game plays quickly so you can fit several games into an afternoon. Players show off their armies, then take turns activating one unit at a time until all units have activated or passed, completing the round. The game plays over six rounds and then the winner is determined. If the game is getting lopsided, reach across the table to shake hands with your opponent and simply restart. You can get back to playing within minutes! The core rules are one page long and easy to learn. The complete rules are simple and clear, you don't need to spend your time reading back through appendices to understand how things work. Instead, you'll learn by playing the game:

All measurements in the game are based on the dimension of the basic plastic building brick. Three color-coded rulers make measuring distance and range a snap.

Line of Sight is simple, clean and unambiguous; if a line can be drawn between the center of the unit and the center of the target without hitting anything that would provide cover, then you have Line of Sight.

The stats are simple and clean, and there are no modifiers to add. Instead you simply add and remove dice from your pool.

Dice rolling is intentional. One roll to hit, one roll to wound. Combat resolution involves both players.

Tracking wounds is easy; a unit is at full readiness, wounded, or destroyed. That's it.

Unleash your creativity

This game is all about using what you have. Your bricks, your models, your ideas. Guidance is provided on creating the battlefield, but people have the most fun when they contrive their own setting. Step-by-step building instructions and parts lists make recreating the models in the rulebook a snap though you can also use the Unit Creator to devise your own custom units. Some keywords and characteristics are intentionally included, but not used, on the standard models to encourage you to make your own!

Get started by downloading the core rules for free here: https://brodadbrickworks.itch.io/brassbound The Brassbound Universe is a community supported open world. Much of the graphics, video, story and play testing was done by members of our community. We even have our first community-designed games in development!

House Albios march to defend their vassal Pumpkine Tribes against Forest Tribes in the Dreadmire. The final slides show the location of the battle and the map of The Realm as a whole.

The Forest Tribes secured a narrow victory in this battle, but House Albios will return for vengeance.

The Forest Tribes under the Celtic banner march to war to invade the Dreadmire, territory of Pumpkine Tribes whom are a vassal of House Albios! Full battle to come soon.

The Forest Tribes consist of many varied units such as Clansmen, Berserkers, raiding cavalry, lancing cavalry, heavy mounted nobles and even the dreaded Headhurlers!

Let me know if I left anything off in the comments?

My blog post for Monday, May 11, 2026.

Feel free to comment or ask questions.

Currently working on a set of Lego instructions for a Tau Merchant fleet. You can find my prior instruction sets here: https://francisco-duarte.itch.io/

Played a game using Legend of Zelda, Nexo Knights and some misc (like Bionicle) for a crossover battle at 800 points. Used the casual rules from the Warsurge game system, had Hyrule castle ruins and some rocks as objectives.

Most people use Warsurge for gaming with miniatures, but it’s been great for Lego too.

I like how you can customise your own units and weapons (for example, Link’s sword could attack at range when he was at full health). If you want to download the rosters we used, they’re here and can be used in the game’s free app:

Zelda & Nexo Knights

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Ganon’s Onslaught

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Ganon’s side won by hogging as many objectives as possible (pun intended given Ganon was in his big pig form). Hope you like the pics.