<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I guess it all started out when I was at a pub with a bunch of friends, sitting in the booth knocking a few pitchers back. Then one of my friends (from kickboxing, he's like a black belt in Thai Boxing or some shit) tells me he had to leave at 12:00 to get back to the dorms to play a game of Risk. Naturally I was intrigued at the idea, he asks if any of us want to come along, I do. I had owned the game in the past, I think I might have 4 copies of it that I got for Christmas (it was one of those games I got, like Monopoly, and stuff almost every year and never actually played. I did play Monopoly a few times against my sister and friends of course though). So we get there, and we meet up with another guy (from Hockey), he always does the Scott Steiner kissing his peaks thing, because this guy has fucking pythons! So we head to the Dorms..
Well, three of the guys I didn't know and had never even heard of, I still don't know their names (but the two I was with knew them). They were the most un-cordinated nerdy looking people I had seen in a long time. The two people I was with were in the same boat as me, never played a game before, we had no frickin' clue what we were doing! Anyways, we set the game up in the lounge, and me and the other new guys were trading around our territories and stuff. The vets were laughing with those geeky laughs of theirs and calling us "meat" and crap like that. Naturally the three of us "newbs" formed an alliance. Asia seamed to be split up fairly evenly, I had Japan and three more places up in North Eastern Asia, and I also had South Africa and a few other places in Africa.
Now the game starts, naturally we newbs screwed up and we immedietly began systematically losing territories. I was stuck in South Africa and Madagascar (and The Congo I think), and my Asian countries which I stated fortifying evenly. I eventually began sending forces West to help one of the other newbs to take Europe, and the vets were all laughing at me. I managed to be successful, and Europe was ours, but the vets kept making sure that he didn't have the entire continent at the end of each turn (or lest he'd get an additional 5 armies). Well, anyways, one of the other newbs was working ell in Southern Asia and Australia, taking Australia, and a lot of southern asia right up to my territories. The middle East as held by the vets, I was blocked off from it anyways. They still were certain that us newbs had no chance in hell of winning, the Vets were just WAY into this game! Like they were yelling and all this crap with each country they took.
I managed to take other African countries (East africa maybe?). My European friends were keeping the enemy forces down, then I went pacifist for a few turns. Two of the vets had North Africa and Egypt well defended, there was no ay for me to get through that! Eventually I had all of Africa, and had 5 cards (I didn't know what the hell they did, I knew I could cash them in or something, but I just ignored it).
Two of the Vets tried to invade Europe, but the dude in Europe got extremely lucky and managed to hold out. Next turn I took all of Africa, and had 5 cards (I didn't know what the hell they did, I knew I could cash them in or something, but I just ignored it). I fortified North Africa (against South America, Brazil) with 6 or 7 people, there was NO WAY he was getting thrugh. I was wrong, he cashed in cards and got a gigantic army sweeping right through into Africa and Europe. Then I realized that these cards were very useful, apparently cashing three in (one cannon, one cavalry, and one infantry gives you a lot of armies, increasing by 5 for each set, so it just got more and more).
Anyway, the next few turns was more or less a battle for the Mediteranean, there was a lot of crap going on between the Vets in North America but I wasn't really paying attention. Me and the Alliance decided to force the Vets completely out of Asia, we managed to do that because they hadn't really been focusing on that area except in the middle east, which we managed to anihilate. Unfortuanetly for us though, the forces from South America and North America were just too powerful, and they broke into Europe from that direction.
Just when we all thought it was lost, one of the vets slipped up, overextending his forces into Europe. My friend from Europe managed to defeat that force, and he halted on the border, not attacking North Africa. We didn't really have a plan, but it seamed to work out for the best, next turn I cashed in a set which gave me the power to take out the remaining forces in Africa, I swept into South America, took them all out, through Mexico, up into North America (note I was getting all their cards, and because I had more than six I was forces to cash them). So I managed to take all of North America as well. Killing all three Vets in one turn. I guess my friend Josh (the dude in Australia and Asia) helped quite a bit there too since he cashed a set and invaded North America from Alaska greatly weakening their forces.
Of course the surprised sore losing vets left the room, and we claimed allied victory =P
All in all, Risk can be as fun as civilization games, especially when you are beating nerds =)
I kind of feel sorry for nerds though now, because you know that even though they are kind of fat, pale, and ugly looking, they really have nothing else except their board games like Risk and the dungeons and dragon game (that they talked about a lot). It's also equally pathetic (in a sad kind of way I am for them) that even though they knew how to play well, they seamed to be really stupid, no common sense whatsoever, that's probably why we were so easily able to kick their asses =P Of course they were constantly backstabbing each other because each of them wanted to win for themselves.</div>
Well, three of the guys I didn't know and had never even heard of, I still don't know their names (but the two I was with knew them). They were the most un-cordinated nerdy looking people I had seen in a long time. The two people I was with were in the same boat as me, never played a game before, we had no frickin' clue what we were doing! Anyways, we set the game up in the lounge, and me and the other new guys were trading around our territories and stuff. The vets were laughing with those geeky laughs of theirs and calling us "meat" and crap like that. Naturally the three of us "newbs" formed an alliance. Asia seamed to be split up fairly evenly, I had Japan and three more places up in North Eastern Asia, and I also had South Africa and a few other places in Africa.
Now the game starts, naturally we newbs screwed up and we immedietly began systematically losing territories. I was stuck in South Africa and Madagascar (and The Congo I think), and my Asian countries which I stated fortifying evenly. I eventually began sending forces West to help one of the other newbs to take Europe, and the vets were all laughing at me. I managed to be successful, and Europe was ours, but the vets kept making sure that he didn't have the entire continent at the end of each turn (or lest he'd get an additional 5 armies). Well, anyways, one of the other newbs was working ell in Southern Asia and Australia, taking Australia, and a lot of southern asia right up to my territories. The middle East as held by the vets, I was blocked off from it anyways. They still were certain that us newbs had no chance in hell of winning, the Vets were just WAY into this game! Like they were yelling and all this crap with each country they took.
I managed to take other African countries (East africa maybe?). My European friends were keeping the enemy forces down, then I went pacifist for a few turns. Two of the vets had North Africa and Egypt well defended, there was no ay for me to get through that! Eventually I had all of Africa, and had 5 cards (I didn't know what the hell they did, I knew I could cash them in or something, but I just ignored it).
Two of the Vets tried to invade Europe, but the dude in Europe got extremely lucky and managed to hold out. Next turn I took all of Africa, and had 5 cards (I didn't know what the hell they did, I knew I could cash them in or something, but I just ignored it). I fortified North Africa (against South America, Brazil) with 6 or 7 people, there was NO WAY he was getting thrugh. I was wrong, he cashed in cards and got a gigantic army sweeping right through into Africa and Europe. Then I realized that these cards were very useful, apparently cashing three in (one cannon, one cavalry, and one infantry gives you a lot of armies, increasing by 5 for each set, so it just got more and more).
Anyway, the next few turns was more or less a battle for the Mediteranean, there was a lot of crap going on between the Vets in North America but I wasn't really paying attention. Me and the Alliance decided to force the Vets completely out of Asia, we managed to do that because they hadn't really been focusing on that area except in the middle east, which we managed to anihilate. Unfortuanetly for us though, the forces from South America and North America were just too powerful, and they broke into Europe from that direction.
Just when we all thought it was lost, one of the vets slipped up, overextending his forces into Europe. My friend from Europe managed to defeat that force, and he halted on the border, not attacking North Africa. We didn't really have a plan, but it seamed to work out for the best, next turn I cashed in a set which gave me the power to take out the remaining forces in Africa, I swept into South America, took them all out, through Mexico, up into North America (note I was getting all their cards, and because I had more than six I was forces to cash them). So I managed to take all of North America as well. Killing all three Vets in one turn. I guess my friend Josh (the dude in Australia and Asia) helped quite a bit there too since he cashed a set and invaded North America from Alaska greatly weakening their forces.
Of course the surprised sore losing vets left the room, and we claimed allied victory =P
All in all, Risk can be as fun as civilization games, especially when you are beating nerds =)
I kind of feel sorry for nerds though now, because you know that even though they are kind of fat, pale, and ugly looking, they really have nothing else except their board games like Risk and the dungeons and dragon game (that they talked about a lot). It's also equally pathetic (in a sad kind of way I am for them) that even though they knew how to play well, they seamed to be really stupid, no common sense whatsoever, that's probably why we were so easily able to kick their asses =P Of course they were constantly backstabbing each other because each of them wanted to win for themselves.</div>
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