Who here likes to play Risk? My board is gathering dust and would like some new friends

2/2/2007 12:18:58 AM

it's always just such a commitment even for one game

2/2/2007 12:20:59 AM

why I play online

2/2/2007 12:21:25 AM

UKRAINE IS WEAK

2/2/2007 12:34:43 AM

...matt does

2/2/2007 12:51:51 AM

Omar is not doing his job.

I'll play you in Risk online.

2/2/2007 12:53:47 AM

Just play online with 'dominate' game. You can create your own maps too.

2/2/2007 2:21:44 AM

UKRAINE IS WEAK

2/2/2007 2:37:38 AM

I've played Axis and Allies. We tried to play a game in the suite last year, took about 2 days to finish, or at least 12 hours. Ridiculous. I won though .

2/2/2007 7:43:13 AM

I liked that game a lot back in the day, but it's too predictable now. I have Risk 2210 AD, with nuclear blasts and stuff. It's also got space and you can fight on the moon.

2/2/2007 9:19:02 AM

^if played well that game takes FOREVER.... and the way its set up you can lose the earth but still come back from the moon. doesnt seem possible but it is amazing some of the crazy things my friends can pull, when there in a corner....

2/2/2007 9:20:27 AM

they said on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (NPR) last weekend that W. was a huge risk player at Yale.
..... not too surprising, really.

2/2/2007 9:25:31 AM

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"I've played Axis and Allies. We tried to play a game in the suite last year, took about 2 days to finish, or at least 12 hours. Ridiculous. I won though "

When we were kids my brother and I never got past two or three hours. One of us would get bored / tired of losing, declare nuclear war and throw the dice across the board.

[Edited on February 2, 2007 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ]

2/2/2007 9:31:15 AM

this is why online strategy games are more fun. You can build up turns while you're offline and you don't have to sit there and think the whole time...

2/2/2007 9:56:37 AM

I've never played Risk though.

Any free online sites or somethin like that? I'm bored at work (no boredatwork.com)

2/2/2007 9:59:29 AM

I play a real game of strategy: STRATEGO!

2/2/2007 10:10:54 AM

My strategy is to start off in South America... because you can only be attacked from two fronts. Or you can go to Australia, because there is only one front to be attacked from there. The reason I don't go for Australia first is because you get very little army support from there and you have to contend for Asia once you're out of Australia. Asia is probably the hardest to defend. But, you also get a lot more armies if you do manage to control it. And then, it depends on who you can ally with. If you're not good at making allies, then you probably won't be successful at Risk. One time we tried playing Risk 2210 and it wasn't quite as fun as regular risk. Flying to the moon and all was kind of a stupid concept. It made the map too large and confusing. One version of Risk I do recommend is Lord of the Rings Risk. Pretty fun to try and control Mordor and the Shire. Those are about it for versions of Risk that I've played. On a side note, I loved playing as the black characters. It was fun to pretend I was the evil dark side. Then I could go around and back stab my allies and it would start and all out war. We even got physical at times and threw dice at each other because of it. Oh, and the best part to Risk is when you get a "Rambo" character. That means there is like one army left on the territory that some how manages to hold off an army of 20. You just keep rolling that dice and Rambo just keeps kicking butt. Ok, that's my spill on Risk. Yep, back in the old college days when you had little responsibility and didn't have to worry about getting up at 6/7am to get ready for work the next day because you were up all night playing Risk. I think the longest Risk game I've played lasted 10 hours straight.

2/2/2007 10:20:21 AM

There's nothing like conquering the world via a game of Yatzee.

2/2/2007 10:20:35 AM

I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine weak.

2/2/2007 10:27:48 AM

xvang, the enter key is your friend!

2/2/2007 11:43:27 AM

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"I liked that game a lot back in the day, but it's too predictable now."

If you can predict dice rolls then I'm guessing you are excellent at craps

I must have the worst luck of anyone alive. I've lost several risk battles where I came in with 15+ and lost to armies of 3.

2/2/2007 12:05:01 PM

One night I didn’t go to sleep, up playin’ risk.
At dawn, I won, got global dominance,

2/2/2007 12:08:22 PM

The board I have is still rockin the asterisk game pieces.

2/2/2007 12:46:07 PM

I think the first time I tried I thought I'd just take Asia first. This was a bad idea, and I want to try playin with a new, amended plan.

2/2/2007 1:08:09 PM

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"xvang, the enter key is your friend!"

I know what the ENTER key is. It's the key to the farthest right underneat the \ key and above the farthest right Shift key. That reminds me of Risk for the computer. I played the demo version a few times, but then I got kind of bored of it because it lacked the "trash talk" factor. I mean, I could talk trash to the computer, but it's not like the computer was going to talk back or get offended. It's pointless to trash talk if the other party isn't offended. That's probably the best part about playing Risk with a bunch of friends. Like I said earlier, we were throwing dice, curse words, and anything we could get our hands on. The most boring part though is when you eliminate everyone and there is only like 2 or 3 people left on the board. That's when it turns into an "everyone for himself" game. And that's also the longest part to the game. Usually when we get to the last two players, we just call a truce and end the game. But yeah, I know where the Enter key is.

2/2/2007 1:19:55 PM

about a year ago i went to goodwill

for 2 bucks i found a mint condition like 1962 version of the game...looked like it had never even been played

chembob i'll be your friend, I've only played once though, and i was like 6 years old- you will have to go easy on me or something

[Edited on February 2, 2007 at 1:34 PM. Reason : how is this in lounge?]

2/2/2007 1:33:42 PM

because I didn't want it to be raped by Chit Chat.

Risk. Serious Business.

2/2/2007 1:50:03 PM

i love risk, that game lasts fucking forever though. Last time i had some friends over to play we started at 9 and finally quit at 430am. we never did finish the game though

2/2/2007 3:25:06 PM

all I gotta say about Risk is fuck Australia

that strategy never ever works ever

2/2/2007 3:41:51 PM

i played it but i made up my own rules

2/2/2007 3:42:03 PM

South America all the way. North America second.

I could never understand why people always went for Australia.

2/2/2007 3:44:03 PM

I was always the kid that could never find anyone that liked to play risk, when i was growing up. oh how i love that game....

2/2/2007 4:27:57 PM

george bush obviously never played Risk.

any motherfucker knows if youre gonna hold the crossroads of Africa and Asia, you need a lot of goddamned troops. i dont mean just the blocky ones, but the big ass oblong things.

2/2/2007 4:38:26 PM

i wouldn't pop a bush joke in the lounge...i did that once and got flamed by his sheep.

2/2/2007 4:39:02 PM

where is online risk

2/2/2007 4:42:57 PM

love the Eddie Izzard bit on it

2/2/2007 5:44:18 PM

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"There's nothing like conquering the world via a game of Yatzee."

I will destroy all comers in Yatzee. Bring it on.

2/2/2007 5:52:38 PM

If you hold Madagascar, you win the game. Every time.

2/2/2007 8:40:03 PM

It's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.

2/2/2007 8:49:50 PM

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"I think the first time I tried I thought I'd just take Asia first. This was a bad idea"

You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

2/2/2007 8:51:21 PM

i loved that game, i used to kick my bros ass all the time

2/2/2007 9:15:31 PM

http://www.dominategame.com/website.php?

very simple graphics (but c'mon its risk)

has a bunch of different maps and rules
for instance their is capital risk where you pick one country as you capital, if its get taken, you're out. However if you take a capital, you get that persons cards and countries

2/2/2007 9:25:20 PM

i love risk (the board game)

[Edited on February 3, 2007 at 3:45 PM. Reason : .]

2/3/2007 3:45:13 PM

im all about some risk

i remember playing it back in the day, at around the 2 hour mark someone would always get pissed off and push the board off the table...the good ole days

2/3/2007 8:27:01 PM

2/3/2007 10:06:06 PM

Well, I'd like to play with some folks one of these days.

2/4/2007 2:49:05 PM

2/4/2007 3:14:46 PM

every name i try to register on that game seems to be taken

2/4/2007 3:23:46 PM

at home we have the OLD SCHOOL game with wooden blocks. there aren't many of them though, sometimes if you have a bunch you need to get an extra color

2/4/2007 3:36:36 PM

http://denizengames.com/

I play there some, but I havnt compared the rulebook to the risk official rules, it seems close if not exact
the games dont seem to take as long as a proper risk game, probably because the maps are smaller

2/4/2007 3:36:36 PM