What a smart and unique new recruit! already understands how to quote people and apparently knows how to fill out the form for cheating and abuse as well. He also seems to be very good at farming in other new recruits to join his cirvicus maximus games.

Commander Eric:
Gee Neon Peon, so what ...

How is it that you even get a generic form to fill out, and people STILL don't have the brain capacity to know what to do?
how is it that you dont have the brain capacity to become a higher rank?

Commander Eric:
Jeff, look at Anarkists, picture and his medals, he only has 3; the most important ...

How is it that you even get a generic form to fill out, and people STILL don't have the brain capacity to know what to do?

Maybe their country has a bad education system.

Commander Eric:
Gee perhaps you never learned anything at school, FarangDemon; perhaps you dropped out early and got a job ...

How is it that you even get a generic form to fill out, and people STILL don't have the brain capacity to know what to do?
how is it that you dont have the brain capacity to become a higher rank?

Commander Eric:
Jeff, look at Anarkists, picture and his medals, he only has 3; the most important ...

weird how they both missed a turn at the same time but i doubt that anyone would have two premium accounts

Commander Eric:
Yesss that is interesting, if they both missed a turn then logically (A) each of them are either brothers or friends, or gay. Take your pic; I put nothing past anyone in ...

None of this makes any sense, there... Commander... *guffaw*

Commander Eric:
Gee Anarkistsdream, are you polishing your chest medal right now the skullboy one you take so much pride in, then go on the public games as an idiot trashing anyone that might get a set of 3 cards before they can deploy ...

This brings up an interesting question. That of players that know each other and play each other a lot then entering other games with different players.

I have myself ended up in 4/5 player games where the others clearly know each other and guess what they all attack me and leave each other alone ...

Commander Eric:

On game 2972259, as of this night of 1:32AM On August 21-22 I am declaring game cheats of r:poppak and g:humley they are lower than snakes bellies and are in secret alliance together; lets see.....they want to slaughter me every chance they get for one thing, I got eliminated in two ...

MajorRT wrote:good basic strategy set!

Ahhhh MajorRT, are you sure you got your finger and hands on the button and that joystick controlling that missile....if you dont, ahhh it could make a big hole somewhere and ahhhh keep the place glowing for a long time.

Guys and Girls, I had been playing RISK and other board games for a few years now, it seems when some people sit in on a game that when they see others about to cash in 3-5 cards they toss the golden rule book out the window and forget that the lower players could help them by not attacking them ...

How about:

In any attack, be prepared to lose 4 or 5 times as many armies as you are planning on losing.

Seriously though, what would a hard and fast rule be; one which would apply to every map, game type, fortification type, fog of war, number of players, card type?

Taking just the ...

Guys and Girls, I had been playing RISK and other board games for a few years now, it seems when some people sit in on a game that when they see others about to cash in 3-5 cards they toss the golden rule book out the window and forget that the lower players could help them by not attacking them ...

wacicha wrote:open term game

Great lakes and solar system

Good for you wacicha I rather like better games of Risk I can understand and have just a wee bit of success at

it'a waste of armies.

Ahhh I see Kemmler, saddly I do not believe you....that skull medal on your chest is not for looks is it? I am curious how many newbees you have slaughtered just because you were adjacent to their territories and you had a agenda that made it very nice to take them out in a ...

If I understand correctly you cited a World 2 game and your lowest count was 10 nations. On this map it's easy to miss the weak trees in the forest and there are so many short term goals it is possible that no one either noticed or wanted to invest the effort to remove your remaining 10 nations ...

I have seen a few games where one player has very few countries left and is earning a pitiful 3 armies per turn while everyone else has a continent.

There is one game that I should never have won 1676647 . Early on i was badly decimated and decided to hole up in Madagascar for a while and build up ...

I do this almost every turn in every fog game I play (which is the majority of my games) - never had anyone complain.

And yeah, sometimes every 1 goes on a different territory, and sometimes they all go in one place... most often it's a bit of both.

A couple times I've watched you play and seen ...

FabledIntegral

you give a very convincing argument bout ESC games being a game of strategy while flat and no cards are devoid or at least of it
your points are partly valid

however, that's from your point of view
i'd like to affirm/disprove some of your points

first i'd like to give a small ...

What keeps me interested is my opponents, I like seeing players with exciting new strategies, some unusual but all you can take something from, in every game I aim to learn something new, I try never to use the same strategy twice, and sometimes players don't like it.

I build up my units in ...

The assertion that a game with a very simple algorithm for victory doesn't have any variation in strategy is just silly -- the perfect examples in my opinion are Risk, Hold'em and Go -- all have very very easy basic strategies, however the opponent is an x factor, the random placement is an x ...

I think that most members already gave the right answer. First, try to raise your score as highest as possible (then everybody will see that you are really good) and Second, try different variations (then everybody will see you are a true strategyst and not just good at one specific map).

Ahhhh I ...

To me, it seems there is a point in Risk in which strategy cannot be further improved. I understand that some of the maps are more complicated, but I still recognize similar limitations in all of them. I'm getting bored quickly, but I think that perhaps speed free-for-all games might provide the ...

Guys and Girls, I had been playing RISK and other board games for a few years now, it seems when some people sit in on a game that when they see others about to cash in 3-5 cards they toss the golden rule book out the window and forget that the lower players could help them by not attacking them ...

How about the "don't attack for a card in flat rate (unless it's 1v1) if you have to kill like 5 or more armies." I'm sick of people running over 5 armies or so because they want a card, and it's their only option, yet they fail to realize it most likely won't pay off. Even with a mixed set, the ...

I suggest people investigate before
a) Making claims
b) Doubting claims

A quick look at past games yields some interesting information. I would list the players as:

⋅  odieman_623
⋅  aphazia
⋅  dough1979
⋅  wwefan94
⋅  Ray of death
&sdot ...