At about 5 PM today, I went to MCS, my university's gaming club that meets in the student center cafeteria each Friday. There were a few guys trading Magic cards and a few others here and there. Then it was suggested to play Risk.
It was determined that because of missing pieces we could not play Risk Castles (unknown game to all of us) and could only play normal Risk. I was green, Crazy Psychobitch was blue, Psychobitch's boyfriend was yellow, Guy Whose Name I Can Never Remember was red, and Guy Who I Never Want to Know What he Said was black.
Upon seeing the playing field, most notably Black, Smart Guy (red), and Psychobitch, I decided that I couldn't win, and set myself up to become a thorn in their sides. Therefore I built up my armies in Afghanistan, Scandinavia, and Quebec.
Smart Guy was not pleased, considering I stood in his way of taking over North America. I don't really blame him, and I felt bad enough that I did some attacking later to make it up to him and help us all against black in the process.
The game progressed and eventually Psychobitch and Smart Guy had to leave for another club. Psychobitch turned her pieces over to Ryan (another smart guy, but I refuse to reuse nicknames) and Smart Guy rolled dice to pass over his cards and allowed the red pieces to remain where they were in North America. The highest concentrations were in Central America and Ontario.
Later, I was left with only Quebec. But when my turn came around, I was able to turn in my cards for a ridiculous amount of troops, which then enabled me to expand my "turtle," as my comrades called it. I eventually expanded the turtle to Greenland, Eastern United States and even all the way out to Kamchatka. I actually held North America, but for Central America. But I'd prudishly left Smart Guy's pieces in place as they would take effort to defeat, and meanwhile provided me a buffer.
I should mention that part of why no one directly attacked my turtle throughout the game. The first bit is that when defending part of Europe, I, with only three armies, cost my enemy eight armies. The second is that someone actually did attack my turtle of Quebec with fifteen armies. I only lost four in defending myself.
I should also mention that Ryan, while defending from a major offensive launched by Black, accidentally threw the dice and they bounced off of my butt (from the side). Oddly enough, the next several rolls were clear wins for him. Black was not pleased and I was laughing so hard I was crying. Sadly, Ryan was eliminated later.
So as I stood, ready to take on Asia and defend North America, it came to be 9 PM. Psychobitch's Boyfriend, who had been basically playing to lose, but kept a firm hold on Australia through the entire game, was tired and decided to quit. The rest of us decided that about four hours was enough for all of us, and chose to call it a three-way tie. At that exact moment, Smart Guy walked back into the cafeteria. He was thrilled to learn that technically he still possessed Central America and could be considered part of the tie.
It is entirely possible that Black, poised to gain 80 armies on his next turn, which was the next turn, would have been successful in his campaign against me. But we all considered that unlikely, taking into consideration that the campaign in Europe that showed only fools roll against me was his.
All in all, it made for a very enjoyable evening. ^^
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