by sprenge777
I told my wife (Deidre) that I had conquered the world and named Africa after her. She was surprisingly excited -- until it got to the Awww... part of the name. That doesn't please her, as she is a woman largely devoid of shmoopy sentimentality. Thing is, it's part of the official name now. I wrote it on the board. So we have a situation where the people of Deidretopia (Awww...) are riven by faction, half of them using the continent's full name while the other half truncate it according to the will of their namesake. Glorious!Games 7 and 8 were perhaps the two best in what's been a uniformly excellent series. I'm sad to hear that you didn't enjoy 7, which was otherwise the most exciting game yet. But not that sad because I NUKED YOUR HEADQUARTERS AND RENDERED YOU A DISCONCOLATE AND WANDERING PEOPLE LEFT TO THE MERCY OF THE MERCILESS ZAK. Between my Game 7 responsibility for destroying Afghanistan and my ruthlessness in Game 8, I think I'm the clear Risk Legacy Villain now. BEHOLD THE POWER OF CONQUEST FUEL! I fully expect that Games 9 and 10 will start with everyone else uniting to destroy me. Which would be cool, because then we could get some more comeback powers into play.
These games also saw some of my long-term plans come to fruition. The Battle Of Gumdrop City will go down in the history of Earth 11844 as the greatest conflict to date -- thanks in part to the fortification I placed there after Game 4. The Middle East and Russia form the spine of the Risk board. Anyone who wants to control Asia or Europe needs both of those territories. I fortified Gumdrop City (and I think I put the bunker in Russia) because I knew that someday I'd want to control one or both continents. AND IT WORKED. ONCE. ALMOST.
I've played enough vanilla Risk to know that it's very hard to win if Europe is your starting continent. You need to reinforce something like 6 territories just to defend your border, as opposed to the 3 for North America or the 4 for Asia. But in Game 8, nobody was anywhere near Europe, and I started with 10 troops -- it was time to try it. And that fortification in Gumdrop City slowed Jeremy just enough to buy me one more turn. That was all I needed. And all I had, since Zak was about to eviscerate Europe from the south and Jeremy was on the verge of deploying 30 troops at once.
That's all for now. BUT I STILL FEEL MONOLOGUE BUBBLING UP INSIDE ME LIKE MELTY CHEESE INSIDE SOME KIND OF FRIED FOOD. And I still have capital letters to use up, so I'll be back...