SEIV Risk Mod game on PBW

[Gandalph]

It would take some work but, if the planet and all warp points were in the same sector, you could still go on a rampage but not bypass defenses?

[geoschmo]

Yes, I considered that as well. It would work for the Risk map, but I wanted the mod to work with randomly generated maps as well.

Besides, I always found that part of Risk to be my least favorite. I prefer playing the game where you could only move one country at a time. It's a fairly popular house rule.

[spoon]

geoschmo said:
I prefer playing the game where you could only move one country at a time. It's a fairly popular house rule.

Funny, I've never heard of that house rule... sounds like a good idea though.

Another popular house rule that you can kind of duplicate is the one that puts a limit on the number of armies you can have in one country. For SE4 risk, you could just play with a low ship limit, like 100 or something. (I was actually afraid our game was going to be a stalemate for a while there. Fortunately, that seems to have worked itself out. ).

Besides, I always found that part of Risk to be my least favorite.

My least favorite was the sheer amount of armies you got later in the game for turning in a set of cards. Though using your house rule certainly would mitigate the problem. (though extend the length of the game, which isn't necessarily a bad thing).

[geoschmo]

spoon said:

Funny, I've never heard of that house rule... sounds like a good idea though.

It's been a while, but the specifics were something like, you could attack from a country to any number of neighboring countries, but whatever armies you moved into that counrty when you destroyed the enemy were fixed for that turn. So if you had 20 countries in Great Britain, you could take Iceland and move 10 armies, but then those armies couldn't do anything else that turn. The 10 you left in Great Britain could attack again into Northern Europe on that turn. It definetly slowed the game down. Of course that's not always a good thing for a board game.