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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 27 Nov 90 19:53:30 GMT
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In article <2301@key.COM> jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston) writes:
>Ok, many people have suggested playing against five neutral opponents as a
>way to make this game harder.  I agree that it makes it more difficult to
>win, but it is also completely unrealistic.  The neutral setting does not
>play like any person I've ever known.  It doesn't try to win, it only wants
>to keep it's original territory.  And therefore, it will NEVER wipe me out!
>Because it's always satisfied when it gets its own territories back, it will
>leave me alive in two countries with one army in each, when it borders me
>with countries containing ten or twenty armies!  I don't want a game that is
>a challenge to win because it's totally artificial, I want a game that is a
>challenge because the other players are trying to win too!  Without the
>possibility of my being wiped out, it just becomes an endurance test.

In the copy of Risk that I have, if you destroy a nation completely,
all neutral opponents suddenly think they have lost territory from
totally random spots. This makes winning the game even harder. When you
wipe out one country, everyone starts fighting. The trick is not to
let any single country to become too strong.

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