Do you play Risk?

No matter how sophisticated RTS's get or how good the graphics are I find that it just can never match the experience of sitting around with 5 other friends to play risk. For 2 to 3 hours we sit waging epic war, making treaties, betraying friends, running over strategies in our head.

I have yet to get the same feeling in a video game as I do when I turn in my cards for a 50+ reinforcement to devastate my opponents.

For 2 to 3 hours

You're saying you've never played games that spanned several days?

You've still yet to play a real game of RISK

For 2 to 3 hours

You're saying you've never played games that spanned several days?

You've still yet to play a real game of RISK

Infinite-Zr0

They do last for days, 2-3 hours is the usual time we have set aside for our gaming session.

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For 2 to 3 hours

You're saying you've never played games that spanned several days?

You've still yet to play a real game of RISK

Aradae2357

They do last for days, 2-3 hours is the usual time we have set aside for our gaming session.

Considering you've completly left that out in the original post

I like Civilization more.

I love the game, but I have a problem getting enough people who like it as much as me. I do have it on my pc, not the same but a good way to brush up on the skills.white_sox

I have the exact same problem. The only person I can get to play is my older sister and she lives an hour and a half away. Though when my brother's girlfriend came over from Canada for a week they actually played with me.

Risk is great, but diplomacy is way way better.drewtwo99

I really want to play that some time. It sounds really fun if you find the right people to play with.

Risk is fun but Axis & Allies is better.gobo212

Whee! Axis and Allies! I used to play that for days with my dad when I was a young kid. It's so much better than Risk imo. Now that I think of it, I wanna play!

[QUOTE="drewtwo99"]Risk is great, but diplomacy is way way better.gobo212

I really want to play that some time. It sounds really fun if you find the right people to play with.

It's really great, but the games can go on for a long time.

My wife and i play board games with anohter couple. We don't play war games, but other games. Steve Jackson games. Carcasonne, Settlers of Catan etc... I'm trying to get them ot play the WoW boardgame, but i think it'd take toolong. ON TOPIC :P I played risk a few times when i was living at home but that was years ago.

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[QUOTE="drewtwo99"]Risk is great, but diplomacy is way way better.drewtwo99

I really want to play that some time. It sounds really fun if you find the right people to play with.

It's really great, but the games can go on for a long time.

Then like Risk, beer, mountain dew and a bag are required.

Diplomacy is the far superior strategy game. When random chance is involved, there is no such thing as "strategy."foxhound_fox

I persnally think you can't have strategy without random chance. A good strategist would not only be able to outthink their opponents but they'd also know how to deal with niches in their plan. In the real world things don't always go perfectly for the strategist. Weather conditions can be unfavorable, equipment can malfunction, and the officers under you can be insubordinate. That's what I think the dice represent.

Total War games are kind of like RISK. The campaign part that is.

I always wanted to try that game but never have as of yet. Relating it to RTS games makes me want to try it even more. (Company of Heroes fan)

Yeah, I'll make sure to note in my plans for real life world domination to take over Australia first.Aradae2357

[QUOTE="Aradae2357"]Yeah, I'll make sure to note in my plans for real life world domination to take over Australia first.Jandurin

it was a joke :)

it was a joke :)Aradae2357

You just got me wanting to play Risk again, and I don't own it anymore :cry:

Well, I own Lord of the Rings risk. :lol:

[QUOTE="Aradae2357"] it was a joke :)Jandurin

You just got me wanting to play Risk again, and I don't own it anymore :cry:

Well, I own Lord of the Rings risk. :lol:

lost the ring to mine. I really liked it though.

lost the ring to mine. I really liked it though.Aradae2357

I've only played it a couple times. But, maybe that was because of who I was living with.

I love Risk, it's just so damn hard to find someone to play with. I remember my first game my cousin's husband told me that the thing you always want to remember is that it's nothing personal. He understood just how much losing this game could get under one's skin. I have played many games that start in the early afternoon and end in the early morning, there is no break and no setting the board aside, it must be played to completion or not at all.

Once a friend came at me with and advantage of about thirty armies it was roughly 50/20 and the red dice just weren't falling, I held him off to the point where he had to drop an attack die and rather then do that he picked up the board and threw it, my mom made him pick it all up and put a ban on Risk for a while.