New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for August 20, 2012

It must be one of those loose former Soviet warheads.

This reminds me of Civ II (I played Risk, but it was a long time ago). In one game, I got tired of being “nice” and having the computer always be a jerk, so I just started nuking the crap out of my enemies. It turned into a very interesting world after that. Bleak, though.

Once had a friend run over his room mate over a Risk game. “You shouldn’t have attacked me in South Africa!” With a Camaro no less. Broke his ribs and pelvis.

..that’s how we’ve played it for your..once you nuke it and can’t occupy it for three turns…

Actually, RISK 2210 does include a nuclear option.

We used to combine Risk with a card game called Nuclear War. Invaded countries and the right of retailation.

“Generals and Majors always seem so unhappy ‘less they’ve got a war.” (XTC)

We used to allow each player to have one air drop into enemy territory….

My memory is from College and dorm fests with Risk. But if we read the whole list we get this: single guys who USED to play. Maybe the name should be Frustrated Testosterone? maybe it explains real wars, to an extent, too?

Risk! lol. We had our own nuke home rules. Provinces that had been ‘nuked’ were ‘radioactive’ thereafter. Automatically lose 1/2 of all armies upon entering . . .

We played a Nuclear Risk variant developed by Navy sub guys…in Dragon magazine, maybe? It was intended to be faster — but not the way WE played it!! Our strategies got quite ornate.

The computer version of Risk is quite good and MUCH faster than rolling dice, but I have to question the randomness algorithm. You can attack three armies with 16 and lose?! And the battles lost and won stats at the end seem too variable to be truly random. I wish I could see the source code.