Risk

Originally posted by NicolaiS
Risk is base on another board game, called diplomacy. That game has no chance at all. No dice involved at all. I have never been able to play it in real as I couldn't find anybody to play with.

If a good online version of risk is found, I will gladly join as I have played risk for many many years.

Originally posted by NicolaiS
Risk is base on another board game, called diplomacy. That game has no chance at all. No dice involved at all. I have never been able to play it in real as I couldn't find anybody to play with.

If a good online version of risk is found, I will gladly join as I have played risk for many many years.

Originally posted by Acolyte
I don't think Risk is based on Diplomacy as such, as their game mechanics are very different. But in terms of quality and sophistication of gameplay, Risk is to Diplomacy as draughts (=checkers) is to chess. A typical game of Diplomacy is so full of scheming and manipulation that even the best military strategist is almost guaranteed to lose if he's not ...[text shortened]... o act in his interests.

I'm sure there are good ways to play both Risk and Diplomacy online.

Don't even ask what I had to do to "recover" this little article I wrote years ago...old backups are good things....

The scene: A smoke-filled room at the Oceanfront Inn.
View of the ocean amazing, but nobody's eyes were trained on the windswept waves. The room's guests were trained on a map, theiq goal; Gaining World Domination.

The participants and their roles: Marty "The Manipulator", Tim "The Target", Hector "Hos" "The Fishstickler" and Billy Eno "No Nickname yet" were all world leaders, aiming on leading it all. Jeff Kegler, Chris "Doody", and Bob Curran all served as outside military advisors. The fact that two of them were veterans just added to the intense gameplay.

Tim started strong by taking Africa, but Billy made the strong push by taking both North America and Qouth America early on in the game. Marty drew the luckiest cards, having the entire continent of Australia dealt to him. (He would go on to hold Australia through the end of the game.)

Hector had his eyes on a European stronghold through the entire game, holding it off and on as everyone took pot-shots on his borders.

As Billy took the lead early he was the bigman on the board and drew the heaviest attack. As the game went on, Billy's power was diminished. He had been pushed out of South America!by Tim's push from Africa, and had North America taken from him, the result of a Kamchatka based attack, through the "Alaskan Connection" by Marty. As Billy saw his impending doom and the arms on the clock getting ever closer to his early-morning match, he bailed out on the board leaving Bob Curran to take the defeat. Bob lobbied for an extra 10 troops, as to the to create a new stronghold, but the others were not in the mood for mercy. Tim took Bob/Billy out of the game 2 rounds later. *Thanis for playing Bob*

As Tim weakened himself by wiping out Bob, Marty took his opportunity to backdoor Tim's troops both in Africa and South America. But Tim got a nice set of cards as a result of the aforementioned wipeout and would not be going out of the game. Tim battled back with Marty regaining his homebase. Hector decided to attempt an Asian attack and took countries from Marty.

This would be Hector's deathblow. Tim decided to finish Hector and took his cards in one round. It was then between Marty and Tim.
A brief but bloody battle was waged over 2 rounds. Both troops were even in strength and another battle was about to be fought, when Hector ended the game with an order to leave his room.

*I guess when you taken out it ain't no fun any more.
And he did have a match in 5 hours. 🙂*

The rematch will be fought for sure, next time some of those "Military Advisors" will have to put their mettle to the test and step onto the map.

Edit: if a couple of the words are misspelled, its because I got it by runnings strings.exe on and old sql database to get it..

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Besides Chess and maybe Go, this is by far the most logical of all board games. I just bought it the other day and have learned everything I can about the game with some quick studying, but alas I now cannot find anyone to play me in it. 🙁 Seems no one I know is really willing to play a game that actually involves strategy or, ya know, THINKING. :*(

Get alot of guy buddies over and then play risk. Ofcourse it really does look geeky for a bunch of 30 year olds to scream at each other over why one guy HAD to attack the Ukraine, but hey, thats where all the fun really lies.

Originally posted by pcaspian
Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Besides Chess and maybe Go, this is by far the most logical of all board games. I just bought it the other day and have learned everything I can about the game with some quick studying, but alas ...[text shortened]... ttack the Ukraine, but hey, thats where all the fun really lies.

Diplomacy is so awesome. I love that game. So much scheming and manipulation. You can play it online. Normally with a judge who evaluates all the moves (everyone moves simultaneously) and relays the results.
Diplomacy is also one of the few board games with openings. And they have cool names like the Southern Hedgehog and the Lepanto.

Hint: Give the most best player Austria as otherwise Austria will be wiped out.

Along the same lines as Risk (which I love🙂 is the Gamemaster Series, which came out in the 80's. There is Conquest of the Empire (Roman themed), Shogun (based in Japan), Axis and Allies (WWII), and Fortress America (WWIII). All four of these games have different movement/combat rules, and very nice looking maps and pieces. I have seen all four on e-bay, and there are even fan sites devoted to them.

Before I had children, me and my friends became enemies a couple times a week 😉. If you like risk, you will surely like these games. Axis and Allies is the only one still in print, and there are several additions to it, with specific area maps and modified rules, and there is even a computer game based off it. Shogun was re-released as Samurai Swords, identical to the original.

I highly recomend all these games, as they are among my most prized possessions, and add quite a bit of character to the generic land-grabbing theme. You can also google "Avalon Hill", which produces many games, and even rates them with a difficulty level.

If anyone finds a cool online strategy game, Im good for a go 🙂

Back to Risk, I have a computer version and a Playstation version, and both are good, but nothing compares to OTB play. If you need a fix though, they are available, and the AI is pretty good.

Has anyone tried Castle Risk? I had it about 15-20 years ago, and I liked it better that Classic Risk. It focuses on Europe, and had more objective based play. I think Ill have to look and see if I can get one online...

I think it's pretty obvious that anyone who enjoys chess could easily enjoy a game like Risk or any of the others named here just as much, since anyone who plays chess obviously loves strategy games! I've recently noticed that all the games I love always require a lot of thought and are usually very competitive. (chess, Risk, poker....) Because of this, I fear my hair will begin to fall-out before I'm even 20! 🙁 I've been known to slam a few tables now and then during every one of the games I mentioned, lol. I hate losing.

Risk is an awesome game to play. I use to play where each player got two colors so we could deploy twice as many troops. Only thing I hate is the mission cards, its not Risk unless its world domination. Also when you end up only controlling a few countries in the middle of board having to defend attacks from everyone else and getting knocked out early.
I have Axis and Allies havn't tried playing it yet, looks like a very complicated game.

Originally posted by seraphimvulture
I think it's pretty obvious that anyone who enjoys chess could easily enjoy a game like Risk or any of the others named here just as much, since anyone who plays chess obviously loves strategy games! I've recently noticed that all the games I love always require a lot of thought and are usually very competitive. (chess, Risk, poker....) Because of ...[text shortened]... to slam a few tables now and then during every one of the games I mentioned, lol. I hate losing.

Hey guys,

never played risk, but I'd be up for a game (if it ain't too difficult to learn)

Boris

I don't have enough time to read the whole thread, but here is my experience with Risk.
I have played it very much on the internet. It is fun, because it can fasten the game pretty much on the internet. I was quite good at it, I have to admit. I was around the same place as I am here with chess, only there were about 50000 players there.
The reason I quit there is because they limited the numbers of players online because of the max capacity of server and that kind of stuff.
I loved it pretty much. I don't know if I can put the site here where I played, so I am not putting it here. Besides that it was a dutch site.

Originally posted by eyeqpc
Lol

I wouldn't worry about losing your hair Kev, I'm 33 now and have been playing chess for 29 years (22 years competitively), Poker for 15 years (Texas hold 'em) and other games with a similar thought process needed to play including Risk for many a year, and I still have a full head of hair which is nice and thick and 24 inches long.
Mind you judging ...[text shortened]... the reason for my full head of hair is that I was never that much good at most of these games 😉