by gblackburn
I am an avid Risk fan and have been playing since I was little. 2210 AD is a great game and its many expansions, including those created by Insurgency Gaming, make it endlessly exciting and fun to play. Many of the expansions created by Insurgency Gaming are great and fit right into gameplay quite easily. This project however does not seem to that.What exactly does this new "Oceans" board do to make game play better? The 2210 AD map already has water colonies and a Naval Commander. Adding Ocean Zones would seem to make the game longer, more complicated and add to the strategic placement of troops and the decisions of where to defend and attack would change. This can certainly be a plus, but why not just create a whole new board in this case? A brand new board, with new terrain, Oceans, and the like would be great and would be a better fit than an add on board that isn't really an add on.
If we are adding Oceans, which is admittedly an obvious omission to most Risk Games, why not add new tactical units, another glaring omission? Create Naval units such as subs, ships, carriers and cruisers to go with the new Oceans on the new map.
Having more choices in the types of units would increase the strategic and tactical decisions that one could make and really help the game. Normal Risk has only one type of unit: a troop. Later versions added Commanders, but there are only a few of these units. Star Wars Risk added Ships that were not counted as troops but modified die rolls. This was limited as well.
What would be really great for Risk is to create more types of units such as tanks, plans and ships to go along with troops (or whatever your imaginations can create) and add those seamlessly into the game. The details that would need to be worked out would be game balance and the relative cost of the units.
New units would fit right into an existing game instead of an Oceans board that would not.