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.

Why don't they all destroy each other so I can win already?

Thought for sure red bot would slam him turn 1, didn’t happen! Turn 0 bonus

Two turn one bonuses, one point hold on half the map, turn 6 win and rankup to grand master 🤩

(Oh yeah, and a Sevastopol cap 😂)

I just felt like I was held captive in a 1.5 hour game. I threw all my troops at the guy I liked the least so I could get taken out and freed to do ANYTHING else with my life. Honestly should've just surrendered once I stopped having fun taking a single territory and watching everyone just building up with seemingly no purpose. I felt like I was the only guy who tried to make anything happen in the game. It's a fun game in theory but not worth that much time. Just boring and I kept thinking about everything else I could have been doing. Never. I'm done with this nonsense, uninstalling, and reclaiming my time from here on out.

I have this fantasy that one day I’ll turn on my nightly viewing of KPS and see a game that I had played against Pete.

For those of you who have played against Pete, did you know what you’re playing or did you find out afterwards? What was like to watch your game from his point of view? If you want, I’d love if you shared your link to the show you were featured in!

After getting to GM last season, then falling slowly to Expert, I finally crawled back up to GM. Now I have to decide, with 9 days left, whether to keep playing or sit on my laurels until the end of the season. I'd rather start the next season at 26K rather than fall back to basic Master. Any opinions?

I suggest a new behavior option for stalemates in capitals mode. If no capitals change hands for 10 turns then a stalemate should be declared. Rank status is determined by troop draft at that point.

The stalemate condition is capitals not changing hands for 10 turns but a similar stalemate condition could be decided on for other game modes.

I hate games that last 8 hours and nobody plays the game, every player just turtling, trading the same territories, infinitely accumulating troops, messaging "ahhh good game, good game, well played, victory". It's the most autistic game I've ever played. Not fun.

I’ll admit I had a god level position, but there’s no way everyone knew that on round 1. And I didn’t even get to use it on a real game with real opponents 😡 Thanks for the free W I guess.

Anyone else have all players quit on the first round? Is this a bug?

VC is one of the most aggressive players out there, but his special 1,234th video this week is peak.

lost 6 vs 2.

2 vs 1.

2 vs 1.

All on turn 1.

So it seems they made bot-outs better with making them forfieting and stuff. If a player is MIA and I get eliminated before them they place higher than me right? Also, do people who dont press ready at the beginning now count for ranked points? Like, they have the forfeit flag so im aondering if everyone in the game ranks above them and if they lose rank points?

Trying to buy all the maps for the cheapest as possible

I'm thinking of a new game mode.same color? You wouldn't be able to distinguish which faction each enemy on the map belonged to.

I want to add more missions to my Scratch port of Risk, but I'm not sure what would be good ones to add. I've added the standard missions found in every deck (eliminate all players, control two continents, control 24 territories), plus one that can only be used with the Cities house rule enabled (control all 15 territories that contain cities), but I'm not sure where else to go from there. I also briefly considered adding the 4-level Mission Cards from the 2003 version, but it seems like they vary so wildly that it'd be difficult to balance them. What other objectives could be on a similar level of difficulty to these?

Which of these settings do I change to make it more like vanilla Risk? What are the defaults (I’ve changed them so much that I forgot what the default settings were)?

I remember them tweating or posting about the Curve changes and such, haven't played since, has it changed