10 second "take back" option for troop movement

sl0p0k · Post by **sl0p0k** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:55 am

Okay, this game could seriously use something that equates to a "the move doesn't count until I take the hand off the pieces" type option! Something like ten seconds to pull back armies you JUST advanced or fortified to a territory. I'm not talking about taking back an attack, just the movement of armies.

I had my strategy all planned out earlier. Move X armies here. "Click" CRAP!!! Wrong space damnit!!! Will probably cost me the match. One of those things that would neeeeever happen on a board game, which this is trying to approximate.

Herakilla · Post by **Herakilla** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:02 am

that "it doesnt count till my hands off the pieces" is from chess, not risk!

sl0p0k · Post by **sl0p0k** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:05 am

Not how I played the game when I was a kid. Plus, unless you have severe motor control issues, you don't put troops in the wrong territory when you have a set idea in mind!

Herakilla · Post by **Herakilla** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:15 am

exactly, so my friends and i never called anything like that because we never deployed wrong

sl0p0k · Post by **sl0p0k** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:22 am

I was talking about while playing on an actual board game, not online. Scrolling down drop down menus and physically moving armies with your fingers are two different things. Thus, a "take back" for wrong clicks would be a nice thing to have.

firth4eva · Post by **firth4eva** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:11 am

wouldnt work in freestyle
many times i have deployed and then my opponent 3 sseconds later and i could just take them back and win

Wisse · Post by **Wisse** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:42 am

Herakilla wrote:that "it doesnt count till my hands off the pieces" is from chess, not risk!

it is even worse, when you touch a piece you have to move it (if it is possible)

sl0p0k · Post by **sl0p0k** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:29 am

Ahhh... okay. I didn't realize freestyle was like that. I've only played a few, and everyone played hours apart from each other.

Fine for sequential, no so much for freestyle.

I guess lesson learned for me, pay better attention to what's on the screen than what's in my head! :roll:

Move on, carry on....

Ishiro · Post by **Ishiro** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:58 am

sl0p0k wrote:Not how I played the game when I was a kid. Plus, unless you have severe motor control issues, you don't put troops in the wrong territory when you have a set idea in mind!

I bolded the important part. If, as you imply, you are no longer a kid, you shouldn't need rules like this. Slow down, double check yourself and put armies where you intend them to go.