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Sentinel XIV
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After scouring the four pages of information in this forum called Critical Failures, I noticed that there is not a thread dedicated to the wonderful board game named RISK.
So, with that said, I wanted to test the waters to see who exactly has played, stills plays, or is interested in playing the game, and see who has what to say about it.
Personally, I think it's a great game. It being a game of strategy, you really have to use your head if you want to play well. I'm nominally skilled. I certainly don't consider myself a top rate player. I know far better players, both personally and in the online community.
So, with that said, I wanted to test the waters to see who exactly has played, stills plays, or is interested in playing the game, and see who has what to say about it.
Personally, I think it's a great game. It being a game of strategy, you really have to use your head if you want to play well. I'm nominally skilled. I certainly don't consider myself a top rate player. I know far better players, both personally and in the online community.
F**K C*N**RS**P!!*!
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A play a lot online, as well. Games there carry over for months sometimes.
I'm almost to that point. I really am.
I also enjoy monopoly and they dont even have the patience for that
sad times are my board games.
THey are the painful variety of board game, however.
is the Transformers edition any good, because if so i might get it.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
There is.
Myself and two friends of mine played a game that lasted two months. I'm pretty sure my buddy ended up cheating to win (switching pieces around when we weren't there), but the game was still a blast.
Not only do they have risk clones, but they have Axis and Allies (called WWII), Diplomacy, and Chess and checkers.
I play regularly with friends in the Axis and Allies game. It takes a little while to get used to how the games work, but once you realize how it works it is really fun.
Hell I'd be willing to play anyone in some Axis and Allies PM me if you are down.
Edit: and most importantly it is entirely browser based, and the advertising is really minimalistic.
www.conquerclub.com is the best site, in my opinion, for online RISK. It's not associated with Hasbro at all, but the site is excellent. It's only about two years old, but the community is great.
Anyone who checks it out, look for me there. My username there is the same as here, Sentinel XIV.
Unfortunately I, like so many others, am surrounded by people who hate Risk, primarily because they hate "cutthroat" play. These are the same people who yell at me for trying to win at Monopoly.
So, alas, I too am of the Riskless.
This may look like my sole purpose in this thread is to promote this site, but, alas, that is untrue. Therefore, this will be the last time I do so.
Check out Conquer Club. There are a ton of user-created maps that vary in themes such as Middle Earth, Space, Canada, etc., as well as the Classic Map. The forum over there is rife with activity, including its own version of the Mafia game. Anyone in this thread that has said they are RISK-less should check it out.
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With that said, I just started a new game against my friend and my wife. Classic settings, so it shouldn't last too long, but we'll see. My wife has a tendency to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Or, as George W. would say, I have the tendency to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
This. If you want to play "Conquer" online, go to ConquerClub.com. I use the same handle over there.
shut up, first name I thought of that it accepted.
One of the more unique Transformers, in my opinion. Look me up over there.
My girlfriend's mother got Transformers Risk for me for Christmas, and I must say I do enjoy it despite some reservations. It's a bit different from the usual Risk, and it runs at a faster pace. Risk-heads will probably hate it to death, but for those of us who want to lead an army of robots across the landscape of Cybertron, it's pretty cool.
I wish they'd actually release that awesome "black ops" risk set that they demoed to the press a while back.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/18/off-the-grid-risk-black-ops-and-hasbros-wrong-direction/
looks so cool.
Naturally, none of my methods while playing Risk warrant such actions.
Meh.
I saw 1 entry for this on eBay. There's 5 days left on the auction and it is up to $102. I want this, but I don't $150+ want it.
Thank you very much, to Hasbro.com I go!:D
There are far better on the site, as I'm sure you noticed already. I'll have to send you a PM, and we'll play.
As far as other boards go in real life, I've only ever played the Classic map. I should really try to expand my horizons. Transformers sounds like fun.
I try to get my friends to play but they have no patience for games.
I love me some 2210.
Also, holy shit, I MUST get my hands on a Starcraft Risk /drooooooooooooool
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EDIT: is there a Starcraft one?
You know what, let's get some people in here to make it and we can play it ourselves. I mean 2210 A.D. is pretty damn close to it, just make 3 factions, give them unique generals, and make some cards.
This sounds like a good idea.
I have 2210 AD right here.
A group of friends tried to play a game a couple weeks ago, but we all hated the sheer randomness of the dice and how bad the game was compared to other games we play now, so we stopped playing after about an hour and started playing Dust http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/dust/product.html instead.
If you like Risk, definitely try out Diplomacy (Risk for smart people) and try out Dust too.
Here are some more pictuers of Dust just to wet your appetite:
the board:
in action:
special ability cards:
front of the box:
back of the box:
Sorry for inadvertantly thread-crapping. It just kind of bugs me how much people talk about how great Risk is when compared to other wargames, it's actually really crappy. The reason Risk is so popular is because it has name recognition and is the only wargame sold in most toystores. That's what you play when you're young so that's what you think is actually good.
RISK is cool even if it's not depthy. A game does not have to be complex to be enjoyable.
to me Risk has always been about cackling maniacally while you invade, and laughing hysterically when you roll so badly that your massive invading army is turned away by a force half its size.
Oh, I agree with you. But that still doesn't make Risk GOOD. It just makes it 99% of peoples' first wargame they've ever played. There are no tactics in Risk, there are just the same strategies played over and over again in every game.
For an excellent and well thought-out critique of Risk, check out http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/145043.
Granted, I've never played any of the (seemingly) thousand other variations of Risk so I anything I say is based solely on the "vanilla" edition of the game.