Let's Conquer the World: A Let's Play of Risk!

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Also, quick question, people.

How do you like it now that round 1 is done? (Aside from the delays. I promise I will be better about updates now...)

Do you want more pictures of the battles? The face-off and the aftermath, so to speak?
Or is this enough?
Would you like to see the dicerolls for each battle? Or do you trust me enough with the die that you'd rather not clutter up the thread with them?

Also, that's a nice blurb there, Hawk.

I think it's looking pretty good so far. Obviously this is only turn one, so the massive continent hopping armies haven't arrived yet and there's not so much to photograph. Perhaps later on things can get more elaborate. And I don't think we need to see the dice rolls, that would be a nuisance for you and not really neccesary to see anyway.

Besides we trust you... I think.

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Hawk

Besides we trust you... I think.

Great! Thanks for the trust!
I'll make sure to fumble some rolls made against you.
That was a joke, people

[tacticslion]

Folly! Waste! Vanity!

War has fallen, and but one thrust deep into the world, but one step into the tide of madness and already foolishness has befallen me! I warned, did I not? Yet I was chosen for this title, it was given me regardless of my own desires!

My ministers and advisers... fools, all who'd drink themselves to slumber for mere fear. Too cretinous to even think that I could change! And now what could have been a fortuitous turn of events is, instead, calamity, all because they were "too busy" checking my private mail for poison! Poison! Imbeciles! I walk the streets daily - any who hate me will come to me personally. I've nothing to hide. The people are free to approach me - surly any would-be assassin would choose such a readily accessible time. And my contemporaries do not know of nor would they even care for such subtlety - there's is a mind filled with raw power and violence against their enemies. When I had my opportunity for honor, I was denied by simple bureaucratic incompetence. Well, I must be more diligent in the future. I shan't let such opportunities escape me a second time.

Orders are tentatively sent in. Also, only bother with visual dice rolls, if you think you'd like to. I'm pretty sure we're all cool and trust you.

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[Melfice]

Okay, here's a rules update, effective Round 3, concerning conditional orders.

Conditional orders ARE allowed, with restrictions:

- You're able to specify with how many armies to attack, adding the condition whether or not you want to retreat from a battle when your attackers drop below a certain number/below the amount of defenders.
As soon as it becomes clear to me people are abusing this to make sure they can't easily be counter-attacked, this ruling is gone.*

- You're NOT allowed to enter a move like this: "Attack Ukraine if the number of attackers from Scandinavia is greater than the amount of defenders. If not, attack Northern Europe instead, but only if the amount of attackers is..." well, you get what I mean.
Compare the game as we play it with a soccer game. You can't call a break every time the opponent gets his hands on the ball to tell your own players to do "x if he does y, but if he does z instead you move to cover 9".
You try to anticipate what the opponent does before the game and during half-time.
In this regard, you're lucky, since you have a half-time every time a Round is over.

What I'm trying to say is, after every round, you have your information. The post contains the general strategy a certain Leader might be following (for instance, Tacticslion went straight for Geminex' Capital (with the misunderstanding, it seems, that taking over their capital eliminates that player from the game. Sorry, Tac!)).

What could that mean? it could mean he wants Geminex out of the game as soon as possible. It could also simply mean that Tacticslion thought South America was an easier target than North America. It's up to you to determine what a player's moves could mean.
Another example, Hawk went to unify Africa. This gives him 3 extra armies every Round.
Is he going to start turtling? Or, once again, was Africa simply a convenient target? Or is there more than meets the eye (Africa is part of a giant Transformer!?) in this?
It's up to you to figure this out.


Why did I do this?
Because Risk is the name of the game. I understand you don't want to leave yourselves open to attack, or mistakenly attack somebody with more defenders.
But with the limitations of playing this game online, and not wanting to spend weeks just playing one round, concessions need to be made. Which is why the way we play it adds more obscurity about the plans of your opponent.
You need to react to your opponent before he's even made his move.
This is also why the turn order changes every round. It aims to eliminate a sense of unfairness, since the first player will be able to act, while the rest can't actually react.
That's why I initially wanted the turn order to be made known only during the round, but in retrospect, this would have made the game less fun.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Is he turtling? Once again, was Africa simply a convenient target? Or is there more than meets the eye (Africa is part of a giant Transformer!?) in this?
It's up to you to figure this out.

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by grthwllms

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Oh, gods... that is awesome. I'm crying with laughter here.
I love you. I love you so much right now.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by grthwllms

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Damnit stop giving away my plans you! That is the most awesome thing I have ever seen.

[Melfice]

Everybody who has NOT sent in their orders yet, DarkDrgon, you have until tomorrow 13:00 (that's 1:00 PM) GMT+1 to send them in. You figure out what that is in your own timezone.

After that, shit is goin' dowwwwwn.

[DarkDrgon]

sorry... got kinda homeless for a couple days. Orders sent, hope I made it.

[Melfice]

Considering it's still today, and not tomorrow... yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're still well within time.

Also, I didn't know you were kinda homeless. Wouldn't really have changed shit, but just pretend I wasn't throwing my hands up and sighing overly dramatic.

EDIT: Got the re-enforcements in place, gonna take pictures tomorrow (hopefully) and post the whole thing on Friday. Again, hopefully. It really depends on my work-load tomorrow and Friday.
Otherwise, update on Saturday (for sure).

TWEEDE EDIT (That's Dutch for second edit):
Okay, so I had all the pics taken.
I was gonna upload them to my PC and then write the story and post it all tomorrow (Friday 7th).
It turns out the memorycard wasn't in the camera. The camera has a very tiny internal memory. I only have the last two photos. Which sucks hard, since Aguia was kickin' some ass.
Gonna have to re-do the whole shebang*. I promise everything is up on Saturday. Seriously.

* Yes, this means Aguia may have just been royally fucked in the ass. I apologize to him.