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I just won at Risk in 2.5 hours...any good risk stories?
Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:52 pm
Played for the first time in years and beat my bros GF (no pics) after she sat on Australia the whole time and took over Asia. Held on in darkest Africa til the end and came with a hammer blow. (The Only war Africa ever wins is risk. 
)
Playing it makes me think of how terrible and awesome it is to play it. The rush when you are on a hot streak, the agony when your huge army destroys itself to a lone man rolling 6s on Alaska.
How once you don't have a chance of winning anymore you just want someone to take you out and it goes from being all into it to disinterestedly sulking on the side and hoping all your rolls fail.
I few like I need to watch the Seinfeld episode with risk. What's that one called? Something about Moops and Ukraine being weak, right?
So when's the last time you played? Have fun?
) Playing it makes me think of how terrible and awesome it is to play it. The rush when you are on a hot streak, the agony when your huge army destroys itself to a lone man rolling 6s on Alaska.
How once you don't have a chance of winning anymore you just want someone to take you out and it goes from being all into it to disinterestedly sulking on the side and hoping all your rolls fail.
I few like I need to watch the Seinfeld episode with risk. What's that one called? Something about Moops and Ukraine being weak, right?
So when's the last time you played? Have fun?
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Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:53 pm to fr33manator
Damn, I miss that game. No good stories come to mind. I liked Stratego, too.
Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:55 pm to SabiDojo
I will play the hell out of some stratego. I hadn't finished a game of risk in about a decade before this. I was into it. Felt like Stalin.
Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:58 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 4/5/14 at 10:59 pm to fr33manator
Good stuff. The toughest part of Risk is finding someone willing to play to the end.
Posted on 4/5/14 at 11:03 pm to SabiDojo
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The toughest part of Risk is finding someone willing to play to the end.
That's the truth. My brother wasn't going to play and I wasn't going to play with 3 people but he decided to and it was a blast for the most part. Once you lose the parity it gets frustrating. Watching my mom stab him in the back was hilarious
Posted on 4/5/14 at 11:04 pm to fr33manator
That's great. Damn. I'm about to order it on Amazon and make my wife and stepdaughter play. Posted on 4/5/14 at 11:04 pm to fr33manator
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Played for the first time in years and beat my bros GF
Congrats on being able to outwit a chick!
Posted on 4/5/14 at 11:05 pm to lsu480
She's a sweet little cheerleader and she turned into a ruthless Mao Zedong. Cold and ruthless.
Mom was hitler
Mom was hitler
Posted on 4/6/14 at 4:46 am to fr33manator
The last time we played risk it went for over 30 hours....straight.
We would flip a coin before eacb turn, heads you got reinforcements, tails you did not.
The key to risk is not to hold australia...rather north and south america. Geographically isolated with three points of ingress. Hold great britain, north africa, and kamchatka and you can inch your way anywhere.
The asia strategy can work...if you take australia, then thailand then india, the middle east and eastern europe. Taking the middle east and eastern europe cuts your battle front for west asia in half.
There is also a german strategy as well that works...though it loses unless the guy playing is brilliant for the entire game.
I used to do the whole diplomacy thing while playing and was afraid to lose territories at all...quick way to lose. Blitzkrieg leaving nothing but minimal reinforcements behind is a nearly impossible strategy to beat.
Gonna have to call some guys up, get some whiskey and play.
Been a few years now.
We would flip a coin before eacb turn, heads you got reinforcements, tails you did not.
The key to risk is not to hold australia...rather north and south america. Geographically isolated with three points of ingress. Hold great britain, north africa, and kamchatka and you can inch your way anywhere.
The asia strategy can work...if you take australia, then thailand then india, the middle east and eastern europe. Taking the middle east and eastern europe cuts your battle front for west asia in half.
There is also a german strategy as well that works...though it loses unless the guy playing is brilliant for the entire game.
I used to do the whole diplomacy thing while playing and was afraid to lose territories at all...quick way to lose. Blitzkrieg leaving nothing but minimal reinforcements behind is a nearly impossible strategy to beat.
Gonna have to call some guys up, get some whiskey and play.
Been a few years now.
This post was edited on 4/6/14 at 4:49 am
Posted on 4/6/14 at 6:10 am to SuzukiGoat
Played as a kid many times. 
Back then, there was no video games till ping came out.
Back then, there was no video games till ping came out. Posted on 4/6/14 at 6:46 am to fr33manator
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I will play the hell out of some stratego. I hadn't finished a game of risk in about a decade before this. I was into it. Felt like Stalin
Wtf dude.
Posted on 4/6/14 at 7:10 am to mikelbr
Use to be a big deal between me/brothers/dad after major holidays. Now we dont live around each other to play.
Conquerclub.com
Lets you play Risk online turn based. Check it out if you like the game.
Conquerclub.com
Lets you play Risk online turn based. Check it out if you like the game.
Posted on 4/6/14 at 7:26 am to fr33manator
I played against 2 of my friends, heavy drinking was involved, took us 3 days to finish, plenty of betrayals and backstabbing, I won by starting with North America and crushing my final opponent that hid like a bitch in Australia
Posted on 4/6/14 at 8:04 am to fr33manator
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she sat on Australia
Posted on 4/6/14 at 8:08 am to foshizzle
I always modified the rules so you could move more armies around
Posted on 4/6/14 at 8:42 am to fr33manator
We used to do semester long games in college. I like risk but Axis and Allies was more fun for me. Maybe some of us should get an online game going.
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