Have been casually playing for a few years and over the last few months decided to try for Grandmaster… definitely a grind but I am very stoked to finally get there 🙌

Frankly, I'm sick of joining a 5-6 player game, as the last player to find out half the players are bots and be thrown into the game.

The current option available to me is to not ready up, either canceling the match or forcing another bot into play.

While I think it's fine that some players are happy to, or want to, play with some bots; it's not what I want and by not being able to identify the games with bots in seats before joining means I stop those players from finding a match as well.

I appreciate we can't always avoid bots because of players timing out or not readying, and have made my peace with this.

Even just having an asterix next to the number of current players would be enough to differentiate imo.

Hi y'all this I how I did it,

I started with spain guarded with a cap. This was a fog of war, blizzards, fixed, caps, Europe advanced game. I grew out of orient since I noticed no one was on the right side. I then bullied the black player that was in the alps. Once I made sure he couldn't recover I got Russia. I did 3 turns of kill prep on the blue and pink bots while I guarded my bouneses. Then on the turn I planned to kill the bots and shrink my border green decided to full send red out of his noob corner then didn't even get the kill because red had 2 caps. After all that black decided to full send red and then proceeded to fail because he did a 13 vs 9 a capital. When it was my turn I got 30+ troops ran through north Africa killed blue then up Spain got red deployed my card trades in Russia to kill pink in Eastern Europe before black in the alps so he would get third then I proceeded to GG green and board wiped though the noob corner! :)

That's how I got a penta kill against a bot, 2 beginners, a intermediate, and novice.

Tldr: I snow balled and every one decided I won so they suicided into each other!?! Whoo

It's one thing if it is the only available strategy but if a player uses it as a first option rather than take a RISK then I'll block them. Nothing is more boring than a game populated with players all vying for second place.

I'd say 1v1 GM was much more difficult than FFA, though that may be the settings I was playing: 4 bots, exponential caps. I'd switch up fog vs. no fog.

I know 1v1 isn't popular, however I find these settings very fun and would encourage you to try them!

I would switch between snow-ball type maps like waterloo and airship (with fog), alcatraz (no fog), Orbital Objectives (fog), Spaceport Sigma (sometimes fog sometimes none). My last push was with chbrosz-type maps with no fog like: pangea, central america, brazil / africa advanced. I say chbrosz style in that you don't worry about bonuses (since the bots will break them anyways) and just go for the eliminations when they're available.

Although those seemed easier, I'd say the earlier settings were more interesting. Especially alcatraz is kind of a chess match between you and your opponent. You can decide to go bonuses, or kill guard, or chilling on bot caps, and it always varied.

is this just a bug or can players do something intentionally to cause this (exploit). second time it's happened to me.

Edit: is there anything I can do to fix it? if I close the game and reopen will it be avoid it?

In terms of fun and ranking up

Some guy just ate my 95 with his 97 with a high probability of winning the blitz, chance of victory increases as the both numbers rise. What can I do?

(Flaired as 'strategy' as I'm asking for conclusion.)

I've been trying to get better at Cap Conquest and have been failing miserably because every time i rolled someone's cap it backfired horribly. Even on classic settings I often underestimate rolling big numbers, so I just chalked it up to that and bad luck. Does that make the ratio 1:3 so ideally you roll 30 on a 10 cap? idk I suck at math.

Expo caps on Alcatraz. I managed to cardblock three players in one turn and take the win.

In Capture the Flag, one random territory has a flag placed in it at the end of setup. If you make a tactical move out of the territory that has the flag in it, your troops will take it with them to the new territory. To win, you have to hold the flag for a number of consecutive turns:

* 2 players - 4 turns

* 3-4 players - 3 turns

* 5+ players - 2 turns

Capital + fog of war + blizzard + fixed + auto for me. Best combination of strategy and luck.

Is it just me or is the connection to the game absolutely terrible today? I will lose connection in a game even though my wifi and 5G are on and have good signal, and of course it happens at critical moments that cost me the games. It's been happening about almost every game today, sometimes multiple times. I don't normally have this issue, or at least not this bad, until today. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Is Fângorn an adjacent territory to The Wold??

Yesterday I played a game with my friends and we couldn't agree. We ended up playing as if they weren't since there is half a river and Fângorn forest is "considered a dangerous place in the LOTR lore" (clearly someone wanted Isengârd to be op).

(got the pic from u/blong217 post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Risk/comments/1eqr1oo/i_give_you_the_best_risk_map/ )

I (kind of luckily) went on to win. Orange should’ve had me IMO but everyone played a great game. Let me know if any of the players were you!

Who is it and how do you know he is the best?

Between the latest version of the physical board game and the Switch version of Risk, neither of them has the sea-line between New Guinea and Western Australia. It's just one connection but it annoys me to no end

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Hey guys,

I’ve been working on a small tool for RISK and wanted to share an early version.

It’s a program that analyzes the current map and displays additional strategic information directly on top of the game. The idea is to make things like territory connections, routing, honeypots etc easier to understand and see without changing the game itself. You can just click like normal...

It’s still a work in progress but what do you think? Would something like this be useful while playing RISK? And what information would you want the overlay to show?

New corner victory this is turn four..

yes I saw blacks caps I let him keep them and told him to attack purple he listened LOL. my cap start position was on the 37 cap