Today was the first game of Risk I've played in four years. I happen to like this game a lot but there's a very good reason why I haven't played it in so long. You see, I've been banned from the game by the Risk-Buddies and they haven't let me play ever since. I have tried countless times to convince them to lift the ban, to give me one more chance, but they won't, not even when they're missing a player and it has been eating away at me for four freakin years. Today, I have found a new bunch of Risk-Buddies, so to those so-called friends of mine who banned me: IN YOUR FACE!
My siblings and I have had this game ever since I can remember and we still have it. It's a fairly old edition, from back in the 80's, where the pieces where simply Roman numerals and the map of the world was very different from what it looks like today and even though I've played with the newer editions, there's something about the old edition that really gets to me. I don't know if it's just the nostalgia talking here, but the world was a more interesting place to conquer.
What I like most about this game is how alliances develop between individual players and how these alliances are broken, usually with major betrayals. Sometimes you never see it coming, like when you call a truce with a player whose mission is to destroy you, now that's ironic. In a way, I think this game really mimics how the world is run today with agreements here, agreements there, and then a little backstabbing on the side. There's always a twist and at the end of the day, every country is looking out for its own best interest and more often than not, at the expense of another. The slyness and the deception is all a part of it and it is necessary if you want to achieve world domination. Of course in the real world it's not so much world domination as it is domination of the world's important resources. I think most countries have given up on the idea of world domination (I think there's still some countries who haven't gotten to that point yet). That is why countries make peace with countries they hate, and turn a blind eye on the doings of countries that clearly go against their "values". It's all about the resources and as long as you can provide those with power with the resources they need, they will leave you well enough alone. And the power changes too. One day your country can be a super power and the next day another country has replaced yours. So you've got to load up on your resources, defend them well and keep your eyes open all the time.
The most question is however, which country will you side with? Will you be able to make the correct alliances? Or will you make an alliance with someone whose mission is to destroy you?
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You will do whatever it takes you to do to conquer the world. No ethics are applied when you need to dominate.
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