The Long Road

05/01/2003 Archived Entry: "Risky Business"

So RISK the other night. It was four of us playing: Dan, Martin, Martin’s first-timer-brother Tom and me.

Tom almost had Europe early in the first game so I was concentrating a lot of my forces on taking northern European countries from him. Tom and Martin made a truce between the European-African borders. Tom pushed me out of Europe and began to take North America (which wasn’t owned by anyone), so I came out of Australia with a sizeable army and took a southern European country from him. During all this Martin and Dan were having an Africa-South America spat, each owned a continent. Once I took a part of Europe, Tom told his brother that the truce was off because he was retreating, from me, into North America. Martin then looked at my RISK cards and noticed that I had 6 (!) so he decided to make his move. He moved out of Africa into Europe and destroyed his nOObie brother and won the game. I think I could have won the game if we had played one more round since I would have cashed in my cards; my mission was to kill Martin.

The second game was pretty different, within the first round all the continents had been divided between us. I controlled Europe and Australia, Martin had Asia, Dan had Africa and South America, and Tom had North America. For a few rounds after that, Martin and I did nothing and just kept collecting our forces while Dan and Tom were fighting over South America. Dan saw Martin as the biggest threat in the game because he was collecting 11 soldiers a turn, I was collecting 10 but the fact that Martin won the last game probably blinded Dan to that. So when Martin went to the bathroom, Dan convinced Tom to take away an Asian country away from his brother through the Bering Strait. After Tom took Kamchatka and several other Asian lands, Martin made his move and invaded Africa with the forces he had amassed in the Middle East. He hadn’t gotten very far though since Dan put up a pretty good fight. The three-way battle left most of Asia and Africa undefended with Europe untouched. I stormed out Ukraine with six legions of horsemen and took all the undefended lands of Asia while my armies in Southern Europe took most of Africa. I had conquered 24 territories and won the game!

Replies: 2 comments

Hey...you neglected to mention that I too played a part in preventing Tom from getting Europe in the latter stages...:P...(it let Martin win though)...

As for you collecting 10 each turn next game...you were overlooked...as we held a truce...and you were the only thing standing in the Middle East's (Martin's troops) way from killing me early...:P!!!

Posted by Dan @ 05/01/2003 10:49 PM EST

Damn people and their truces =P

Posted by Anonymous @ 05/02/2003 03:13 AM EST