Mr_Adams wrote:Mine absolutely must be people who turn in sets during the final stage of the game.
Here's what I mean by final stage.
1st stage: Beginning: Everyone sets up what would be viewed as "their territory" or the place where they plan to build.
2nd stage: The game commences in the game we all know and love... Risk.
3rd stage: clean up: down to 2/3 players and 1 player has all but 5 or 6 territories (on a normal sized map ex: classic) and just need 1 more turn to finish off all opponents. the opponent (assuming this is flat rate) turns in a low set and spreads out to about 12 territories, just making a bigger mess to clean up. The worst part, he wasn't REQUIRED to turn in a set that turn.
i really don't understand what's wrong with that.
what do you want them to do? give up? i can honestly say i won a game where i was down to a few terits and the other had the whole map.
i cashed in a set when i had 4 cards and went on a rampage. with the help of good dice i managed to stretch myself all over the place and break all his bonuses.
then he missed a turn. i went ballistic again and killed as much as i could, yes i attacked to the very last army. at this point i had more terits than him. he came back did some damage got 2 continents back but he lost a lot of troops because of the bad dice and missed turn. i got another set and blasted at him. at that point i was already on top both in troops and terit count. he simply deployed and took a card taking a defensive stance. he basically gave up. i killed him 2-3 rounds later.
that's why i always like a player that with the last 3 armies he gets to deploy he still tries his luck. i don't like quitters.
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