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I don't know how that negative thing would go. Someone just reported a bug in which a guy was somehow deploying negative armies and it got all goofy and would give him like 13923095 troops. I guess you'd have to talk to lack about that.

Overflows are fun! Though I didn't know php supported ...

Well, they really help make up for the even-distribution of armies at the start of a game (instead of choosing the countries to place each army in, which would admittedly be interminable with subsequent 24-hour turns on here). I think it'd be interesting to allow one- or two-turn unlimited ...

Complete logs have been requested several times, so perhaps this is a good opportunity to reveal my secret plans...

Game Log 2.0

* log will be available in xml format so talented programmers (*cough* *cough* Tr0y *cough*) could create movie players and even bots


That'll be cool. I've been ...

I dont see why people like South America. it gives a bonus of 2 and has 2 boarders. Oceania gives 2 and only has one boarder.


Where do you go once your have Oceania? There's only Asia, which is difficult to hold. You could try for two discontiguous areas, but in my experience, players rarely ...

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If you can't find a continent easily, try to consolidate some of your troops, in some reasonably non-threatening location, so you can have a large attacking force to either:
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Yes, that's a good point. If you start with a weak position, with few adjacent countries (ie ...

It also depends how many players are in the game. Europe & N America, or even Africa can be very difficult to hold early in a 5- or 6-player game. There, going for a small continent is the way to go, if possible, building a small advantage slowly. South America is a favorite because it gives you 2 ...

* Have a good feel for odds when you go into battle. Consultation of a risk odds calculator can be helpful. Here's one on the web: m.

* Keep careful track of how many reinforcements each player will get, and how many cards they have. Keep an eye out for weak players with lots of cards, because ...

This isn't the first time "the unbelievable" has happened.

Certainly not... consider the battles of Marathon... Thermopylae... Gaugamela ... Agincourt... the Spanish Armada... Trafalgar... Napoleon's invasian of Russia... Midway... the Tet Offensive.

Sometimes superior tactics or arms ...

Most of my Risk back-ground is with the board-game version.

In FtF encounters, in-game deals were considered a natural part of play.

Ganging up on the top-dog... was just a fact-of-life

Why is it considered cheating in online versions?

I'm not advocating a pro or con stance on the topic... I ...

Ditto that, it could get a bit hectic. Not to mention there have never been 8 players in a real riskboard anyway. It's always been 6.

The classic board just has 6 continents. But there are at least a couple maps here that have 8 continents--Crossword & Montreal I can think of offhand. It could ...

Whimsical, preposterous, and utterly delightful. The perfect map!

Perhaps another type of game should be allowed besides simple private and public games: ranked games where one must have a certain skill ranking to join.

This would help with two problems:
- Sometimes one is relunctant to join a game with players with low scores because of the great potential ...

you need to play single games till you find someone who you can work with then ask them to be your partner in a doubles DO NOT JOIN a doubles unless you already have a partner you feel you can trust to stay in the game and not deadbeat out

And in a non-password protected game, never be the ...

I was muttering about losing a game recently where there was a moderate spread of difference between my points and the winner, and was wondering:
Is there an upper limit on the number of points you can lose in a single game?

You know, if a player ever managed to lose enough games to put his ...

Fieryo wrote:you forgot Major General after Brigadier General

Indeed, and Modern Major General after that, something to which we all aspire to be a model of.

Could be cool, post a picture or link to the map so people can see what it is.

For those who don't know what Eragon is...

It's a trilogy of books that are popular here in the States, I'm unsure of their international success. They're about a boy and a dragon and their struggles of accepting their ...

futuristic map has been done before, in risk 2210 AD. quebec is it's own country, so is ontario, and many other changes to the world have been done. Dont remember them all, havent played in a few months

I played that a few years ago... I recall that Greenland was the Exiled States of America ...

While an option for such a thing would be good, the current gameplay should be still allowed - it adds an additional level of strategy, because such firepower can be achieved only through being very organised.

Grr, so speaks one of the members of the EVIL team which spurred me to make this post.

Forgive me if this has been brought up before; I checked recent topics and didn't see anything on the subject.

In teams games, especially triples games, an enormous amount of firepower can be brought to bear when one team is up. At the start of a game, if one team gets 3 full moves up front, they ...

These rolls are f*ckin' retarded!!!

I totally agree! No matter how many times I stand on one leg while whistling the national anthem, or say 50 hail mary's while sacrificing a goat, none of the usual methods for influence fickle fate have any results!

It's really too bad that complete games ...