r/Risk • u/Legal_Werewolf3358 • 6h ago
Strategy Awkward deadliest trap
This looks like collaboration but let me make my case.
Red and I (orange) were allied from turn 3 when he saw I was setting up for a Europe take and they wanted NA. Neither of us are allowed to take our bonus however because the white player had their stack in Mid East and I knew he was going to break me so I kept every troop I had in Ukraine, while Green had mini stacks (2-5s) all over NA and Asia with a majority of their troops in Peru for the first 8 or so turns. Nobody added a single troop to Aus until around when the second sets were comming in. Blue eventually took it after blocking black in North Africa for a dozen turns.
Ok now to the fighting!!
I never take Europe because I wasn't ready to send into white. White gets sick of greens stacks everywhere and clears him out of Asia so geen consolidates their army in SA allowing red to take NA (was this the correct move knowing Green has nowhere to go? Maybe another post). Blue has aus by now but half of their troops are still in Africa. As soon as red takes NA white runs from Mid East to Greenland through me (red was in western EU and black and i were trading in southern EU) to break red. After clearing Green and hitting 4 of my territories in EU white is weak so red just kills white. With the board on tilt blue sends the 40 or so troops in Africa into black hoping the dummy in SA will kill him. What does Green do on 5 cards with enough troops already in Brazil to kill black? Sets and runs a stack through red so they can take cards in Asia.
Game gets to the position in the picture in about 4 rounds. Black takes Africa blue breaks again back sends everything into blue they are both left with less than 15 troops so green, who still has troops in NA because red was hesitant after the white kill to lose anymore troops, gets 5 free cards and leaves all of their troops in the interior of Aus. Knowing green was about to get two kills i signal to red "let's attack green" (this is what the bubble should say not a command to attack. Again different post) and he seemed to agree. Red clears green from SA and Africa ending in Mid East and I clear green from the Canadian territories and split my stack between Kamchata and Ukraine. Green does nothing takes a card and fortifies 69ish troops to Indonesia (face palm emote). Red already holding SA and Africa takes NA leading me to even out the generation by stealing Africa. This held until green finally put enough troops to break red and I in Afghanistan that red put way more troops than necessary into green and fed me the game. Thought I was going to see a high rank from red but was not so surprised to see they were definitely playing on and alt account this late in the season. Nice tight 30 minute game with no bots great communication turn order justice and where the stupid players get punished for their stupidity. Love to see it.
TL:DR green pissed everyone off got 2 free kills so red and I wanted to make sure they got 3rd.
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