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From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
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Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 21 Nov 90 23:34:02 GMT
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In <2280@key.COM> jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes:


>Since there seem to be a lot of folks here who play this game, I have a
>question.  Is it just me, or are all the variations of the computer opponents
>just plain DUMB?  I have played many times, against many different numbers
>and combinations of computer opponents, and I have almost never had any
>trouble beating them.

Have you played against five cautious opponents? If so I'd like to know
how you won easily. They react to the taking of one of their provinces
by coming from any where to get you. They never fight amongst
themeselves. And if you kill one of them they declare holy jihad
against you. And as they have spent the entire game doing nothing but
build their forces this is tricky. My only strategy in the end was to
knock each of them down to one province one at a time. This took
forever.
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Brendan Mahony                   | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz       
Department of Computer Science   | heretic: someone who disgrees with you
University of Queensland         | about something neither of you knows
Australia                        | anything about.