Risk

12 Armies against Kamchatka! Watch my glorious Green troops sweep across Asia, knocking aside the feeble Pink and Blue forces of my opponents!! *insert Imperialist cackle*. My first experience of Risk was as an innocent 10 Yr old, well versed in the arts of such entertaining Family Games as Monopoly and Scrabble, but naïve to the all conquering tyranny of my Father's game play at this new and exciting game. After losing rather shockingly the first few dozen times we played, I resolved to hone my tactics and would spend hours of my summer holidays from school playing alone, monster 6 player games where I controlled each Army individually. I learnt the Arts of ...  Read the complete review

Risk is a super game which is all about using strategy cmbined with a bit of luck. The idea of the game is to secure world domination by invading different countries until you rule the world. There are drawbacks to this game. First off it is very complicated and certainly we still need the rules to hand every time we play. Each game can take quite a long time to complete and I have seen games end in stalemate after well over an hour, also I do find the figures quite fiddly to move about and they keep falling over. The game board is basically a map of the world divided up into countries or rather regions in some cases. Ideally you need at least three ...  Read the complete review

I have always harboured latent desires to conquer the world and the only thing stopping me was the fact that my patent for a super laser and mind control ray was never taken seriously by the useless bank clerk who would not authorise my home improvement loan to fund the building of a prototype. Guess who will be up against the wall in front of a firing squad come the glorious day? As master of the world I did see my self as a benevolent and quite majestic leader, some may view my plans to convert Stamford Bridge into a leper colony a bit extreme however when Mourinho coaches them to dive it will be obvious as bits fall off, and the conversion to a new religion Wengerism ...  Read the complete review

If your popgun doesn't compete with your opponent's howitzer, this is the op for you. Fed up with being made into dogmeat at Risk? I would be too. So, as with my opinion on chess, my purpose here is not to describe the game, or convince people not familiar with it to go out and buy it. Other reviewers have already done that, admirably. I thought it would be useful, given that usefulness is what we all strive for here in Dooyoo, to provide some techniques and strategies for improving your play in Risk, particularly if you are an inexperienced player. There may also be an occasional nugget here for the experienced player - you may also disagree ...  Read the complete review

Risk is great fun, but has some flaws, This opinion will give you an alternative play, which makes it far more fun: by removing the dice! This version is conceived by a Dutchman called Martin Medema, and now it's brought to the other side of the pond, courtesy of DooYoo. Intro ~~~~~ Risk is a wonderful boardgame, in which two or more players fight for world domination. For those that do not know the game, I will briefly describe it. If you know the game already, skip to the Flaws part. (since almost all people have played Risk at least once, I?ll see you all there?) I know that part of the description is double, but I find this necessary to make the ...  Read the complete review