by scottmw90
My friends and I have currently played 3 games of Risk Legacy (as a 4-player game). Games 2 and 3 have left me in such bad moods that I wanted to play the game with other players, but I wonder if I'm overreacting.Game 2: I had won Game 1 and in Game 2 I set my HQ in Australia. One of my friends said at the start that he 'had a grudge and wanted to teach me a lesson about using Australia', so deployed in North America and bee-lined across Asia in order to attack me, leaving every single province of his with 1 unit in it - the rest of his army was snowballed against me. As he had all of N. America, this amounted to quite a few units per turn. The 2 other players owned Europe and S. America, yet refused to attack him in N. America and enabled what was, in my opinion, a complete farce of a game. He obviously won the game in under an hour with 4 red stars, and the 'game' was recorded for posterity on stickers and the board.
Game 3: One friend deployed in Australia, I deployed in S. America and one deployed in N. America. The final player, who had all of Europe and Asia to choose from, decided to deploy his HQ in the Asian province closest to Australia in a bid to blitz the Australia HQ WITH HIS STARTING UNITS and eliminate the other player in order to open the corresponding envelope. Obviously he bounced off Australia and was subsequently eliminated and [o]got his pick of the Rejoining the War stickers[/o], and the Australian player then had 2 HQs and a starting red star before anyone else had left their home continents. Again, this was recorded on stickers and the board.
Am I justified in being furious at this? From my perspective, I bought this game with my money and have had 1 proper game out of 3 because the other players are playing (for want of a better word) irresponsibly. They claim that it's fine because it gets the envelopes open quicker and because they're using 'legal tactics'.