Who wants to play RISK?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/14/2019 at 16:08 • Filed to: None

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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:16

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The guy sitting on top of the two desks - ha!

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:18

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That’s clearly the box art for The Game of Life

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:18

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Triple sixes! Eat that Manchuria. 

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:20

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Man, I just realized that it’s been decades since I played Risk. I used to love that game.

facw > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:23

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For those wondering, that is a map of the Philippines (light is land, dark is water).

Searching for it, I saw one (unsourced) claim that this is from November 1941, meaning that if true these men were likely present when Japan invaded December 8th. If they survived the battle they would have been captured and subjected to the Bataan Death March and years of brutal treatment as Japanese POWs after MacArthur abandoned his 100,000+ man army and fled in the night after three months of fighting.

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal 10/14/2019 at 16:24

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I think I’ve only ever played it once, and that was probably about 40 years ago.

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:26

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We played it a lot when I was in the Navy especially on quiet duty nights. 

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 10/14/2019 at 16:29

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Bunk Desks

haveacarortwoorthree2 > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:30

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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > vondon302 10/14/2019 at 16:33

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*Mongolia =)

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:35

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I love risk, no one ever wants to play anymore. And for the record hell yeah i’d play on a gigantic board like this with pusher sticks.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:37

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Have you heard of Twilight Imperium?

It’s a game for people who think Risk is over too quickly and isn’t even half complicated enough. In space.

In my college days, we did sessions of this that ran in excess of twelve hours.

SiennaMan > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 10/14/2019 at 16:37

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 Brilliant way to quickly easily see all the maps and the whole situation..

SiennaMan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/14/2019 at 16:39

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That sounds like something I’d really e njoy if I were at a different place in life..

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > SiennaMan 10/14/2019 at 16:43

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...assuming that chair is secured in place and doesn’t fall off the back.

Svend > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 16:45

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These look like American or Australian uniformed versions of the British, Royal Observer Corps, who plotted bombers during WWII, later during the Cord War, nuclear bomb trackers that would observe nuclear blasts and estimate yield and fallout post detonation and track cloud direction.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > lone_liberal 10/14/2019 at 16:50

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Hasbro has a tablet/mobile version I play sometimes, but then I remember how bad I am with dice rolls. Lost a lot of armies to dice that just couldn’t roll higher. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SiennaMan 10/14/2019 at 16:50

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Who goes in what order depends on who’s playing which action cards for that turn, and pick of action cards advances by who the “speaker” is. Each turn you have the option of doing your primary action and possibly someone else’s secondary action as well for each other player as they go. The size of your military and your ability to move that military and do other things are all interrelated through a command pool of counters. All the different military units do different things, technologies can be researched (in a whole Age of Empires-esque tech tree) to do things better, and there can even be political votes for new laws. Also, there are trade contracts to generate trade goods.

It’s heinously complicated, if I didn’t mention that. To play “better”, we’d sometimes have twelve people in teams of twos so each team had optimal strategy. This has the result of making it go even longer, obviously. 4AM mountain dew and TI parties... ah. Glorious.

The Ghost of Oppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 10/14/2019 at 16:54

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He’s on the phone with his mother telling her the game is running late and he won’t be home for supper 

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 10/14/2019 at 16:55

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18 vs 2 army invasions ending with a retreat! Is that how the Falklands War was like? I’ve never seen anything like it.

Then again, the hasbro Monopoly app once sent me to jail 4 times before I made it one time around the board.

I think they might be cheating. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > The Ghost of Oppo 10/14/2019 at 16:59

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Ha!

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 17:08

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never again.  

ttyymmnn > Svend 10/14/2019 at 17:33

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That was taken during the Philippines campaign, presumably after MacArthur returned. 

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/14/2019 at 17:35

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Sounds interesting, but at a level of complexity far beyond the level of my patience. 

ttyymmnn > haveacarortwoorthree2 10/14/2019 at 17:36

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The best line in the history of film. 

ttyymmnn > facw 10/14/2019 at 17:43

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I’m guessing it is after MacArthur returned. The scene looks far too calm and organized for 1941.   

facw > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 18:46

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Well before the start of the war seems quite possible, I’d expect that to be far calmer than during the liberation, and after the liberation there’s really not much need for that view. It look quite plausible for wargaming a Japan invasion (which they would have known was likely).

The three white lines (up the peninsula from the southeast, into Lingayen Gulf from the northwest, and down the west coast from the north) line up pretty well with what happened, though I suspect that’s geography and the route of the railroad rather than brilliant insight or an indication that we are seeing the invasion as it happened.

SiennaMan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/14/2019 at 19:44

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 Yeah,  that definitely sounds like fun.  I just need to wait for my kids to grow up and to retire..

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 10/14/2019 at 20:04

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One of my favorite games! My wife refuses to play Risk with me anymore. She’s won exactly one game. Conversely, the whole family refuses to play Clue with her. She’s never lost a game.