Risk

Anyone play it? I just got ass-raped, although it was my second game.
Anyone have in crazy comeback stories?
But yea, fun game.

It is the best board game ever :]
I think my finest moment was when I played my brother and at the end of the game, he held all of australia...and nothing else.
So of course I put 114 troups in Siam.

One of the greatest board games ever. However it takes about three hours to complete.

I like the Lord of the Rings version. I always end up breeding the Hobbits and having an epic battle at the end.

I have only played Risk three or four times in my life, and not one of those games was finished, so my opinion is a bit skewed in that regard.

At any rate, from what I have experienced, I can say that it's fun in the beginning, but once you get to a certain point, the winner is pretty much decided, and the game gets incredibly boring. It's like tic-tac-toe, except infinitely more drawn out. As a result, I've never played long enough for anyone to have a miraculous comeback. Perhaps if I can ever stand to play all the way through to the endgame, I'll see what all the excitement is about.

Everyone in #zelda was playing Risk online a while ago. It was pretty fun.

Oh, yes....

I remember the six hour-long slogs of Lord of the Rings Risk.

I found that Rohan and Eriador weren't valued high enough, and despite Arnor giving a surplus of seven battalions, the exposure it had to Rohan and Eriador on the west meant for extreme difficulty in maintaining your borders.

I liked Mirkwood aswell, really only because it had a good funnel into the west, which I used a toll bridge for whatever allies I had. It was a battalion per every three battalions, and they always paid it to get through, it was hillarious.

Of course, after playing for just two hours, your mind starts to go. Three hours, and you feel thirsty all the time. Five hours, you'll begin to think everyone is against you, and there is no more talk at the board. At six hours, most of us revert to the foetal position and begin saying, "Smeagol losing his nerve? THE PRECIOUS" And so on.