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From: matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman)
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Subject: Re: Risk
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Date: 29 Nov 90 19:28:31 GMT
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In article <1990Nov27.195330.12819@santra.uucp> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri 
Munkki) writes:
> 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.

Not exactly true.  Neutral opponents work as follows:

1) They try desperately to hold on to anything they own.
2) Once they occupy a country, even if it's for 1 turn, they consider it
theirs.
3) If a fellow neutral is wiped out, the other neutrals inherit the
territories and protect them.

That's a neutral's basic strategy.  There's a few other parts to the
algorithm (like how it decides who to inflict pain on first) that I
won't bore you with.

/Matt

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Matt Kingman - Macintosh Software Engineer
Pacer Software Inc. - Westboro, MA 01581
Disclaimer:  I speak only for myself.....