The purest form of Risk is:

by **Pedronicus** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:30 pm

1. The World map
2. Sequential turns
3. 1 fortification
4. Escalating cards.

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:31 pm

And of course to play in person with comrades and foes alike until the wee hours of the morning.

:wink:

--Andy

by **thegrimsleeper** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:39 pm

I'll drink to that.

by **MrConfigT** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:00 pm

I need to go buy the board game it seems..

by **Pedronicus** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:01 pm

So why do I have to create this map each frigging time?

I hate going first and being red

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:26 pm

It's classic, but sometimes I like to get a few more quicker freestyle games in.

--Andy

by **Marvaddin** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:28 pm

Well, Im addept of flat rate and unlimited fortifications, and I have to create my games too. Almost all games are escalating + unlimited or flat rate + 1. How can I understand?

About the map, its always good something new.

by **zorba_ca** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:07 am

If you want to play a certain style of game but don't always want to be first I suggest:

1. create the game
2. wait for at least one other player to join
3. drop the game
4. rejoin it

If you want to have a later turn, just wait for more players to join before you drop it (or drop it and wait for more players to join, but then you run the risk of being shut out of your own game!)

Hope that helps.

by **Mjolnirs** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:39 am

Pedronicus wrote:1. The World map
2. Sequential turns
3. 1 fortification
4. Escalating cards.

AndyDufresne wrote:And of course to play in person with comrades and foes alike until the wee hours of the morning.

Don't forget the army markers are wood not plastic.

ld school:

by **john123** on Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:39 am

Escalating games are not the purest form of risk, it's just waiting tilll later rounds while building up big armies, there's nowhere near as much skill needed and luck is made too important

by **Nobunaga** on Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:12 am

... But this ain't Risk. That is spelled out quite plainly on the first page of this site.

by **Patroclus** on Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:18 am

Risk with the wooden square pieces that represent single armies, and the contoured oblong pieces that represent 10 army units.

Oh..., and don't forget all the beer stains on the board! :mrgreen:

by **john123** on Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:47 am

Nobunaga wrote:... But this ain't Risk. That is spelled out quite plainly on the first page of this site.

yeah but the title of this thread is whats the purest form of risk

by **rocksolid** on Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:17 am

I'm of the school of thought where escalating trade-ins is seen to involve too much luck. Dude after me has 3 (or say 4) cards, and after him is a player with 1 card but two continents. I have a massive army that I can use to break both continents, but in doing so would leave myself absolutely vulnerable to being wiped out if dude after me trades in; but if I don't break both continents this turn, and 3-card dude doesn't either (by not trading in), 1-card man will have enough income to make his borders unbreakable on future turns, and definitely win. So? Flip a coin? Hence my frustration with crazy trade-ins.

by **Mykel** on Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:01 pm

Long live the old school game with the wood pieces!
(And playing till the wee hours)

But yah, clasic map, 1 fort, and escalating, thats the way to go, its all i play now.

by **Hoff** on Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:25 pm

Pedronicus wrote:1. The World map
2. Sequential turns
3. 1 fortification
4. Escalating cards.

Add that to placing you troops where you want before the game starts player by player until all troops are deployed. Since you cant do that here that why i like unlimited forts.

by **Pedronicus** on Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:41 pm

Hoff wrote:Add that to placing you troops where you want before the game starts player by player until all troops are deployed. Since you cant do that here that why i like unlimited forts.

When I'm placing troops on a real board - I tend to even them out, so it gives nothing away in your early placement. So I dn't mind the way this game gives out equal armies (Saves me a bundle of time

)

by **autoload** on Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:26 pm

This was one hell of a bump for your topic huh?

One of these days I will make the jump and try a one fort game.

by **glide** on Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:31 pm

I've still got the actual board from Waddingtons, pre parker bros.....and yup, beer drinkin'. good friends, lottsa time, and live is best.....but after so long without....I'm diggin' CC...... $\:D/$

by **Skittlesandmnms** on Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:24 pm

Mjolnirs wrote:
Pedronicus wrote:1. The World map
2. Sequential turns
3. 1 fortification
4. Escalating cards.

AndyDufresne wrote:And of course to play in person with comrades and foes alike until the wee hours of the morning.

Don't forget the army markers are wood not plastic. ld school:

idk about that. i was playing a board the other day, and it was the one my dad and his siblings used as kids, and the markers were plastic.

by **sfhbballnut** on Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:28 pm

I have one of the original sets, the markers little wooden bloks that are painted coloers, and there are a few longer blocks that count as five, that's it. I'll have to check if that east africa Egypt connection is there an that one.

by **sfhbballnut** on Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:34 pm

by **reverend_kyle** on Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:10 pm

Nobunaga wrote:... But this ain't Risk. That is spelled out quite plainly on the first page of this site.

Non hasbro risk.

by **sfhbballnut** on Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:46 pm

Technically since they own the name it is the only risk in the world, any varients on the rules even small ones, make what evr game that is not risk, just a varient. Its the reason the Super Bowl champs can be called world champs, its because no one else in the world plays that exact version of football