If Poker were the game of Risk...

[BarronVangorToth]

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Far superior to the game of Risk is "Axis and Allies".

http://www.axisandalliesworldclub.com/

PairTheBoard

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Agreed. But if you follow this line of finding the progressively better and better games, you start to wander towards Magic: The Gathering, WWE Raw Deal, Puerto Rico, Chess, and ...

... wait for it ...

poker.

Neverending circle of samsara ahoy.

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

[Goodnews]

don't go after australia or south america... just hold a single country in each continent to make sure noone gets the bonus, then when you got the cards, make a run at the weaker continent.

[Shoe]

I always take Europe, and that seems to work well.

[Brom]

North America! It only has 3 points that need to be defended and it is worth a lot of points. Also you can take South America with it and hold two whole continents with the same 3 defense points.

[edge]

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don't go after australia or south america... just hold a single country in each continent to make sure noone gets the bonus, then when you got the cards, make a run at the weaker continent.

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Australia is the best. Only one entry point.

[philnewall]

Australia and South America are great to go for if you can snatch them within your first turn. The real skill in this game is deploying your armies, don't mindlessly follow your mission, instead go for the continents which are being left for everyone. Avoid full-on arms races, where two players stick all their troops battling for one continent, it'll wipe you out.

Afterwards, you want to get your empire so it has as few entry points as possible. The americas is a good combo, with 3 points and a total bonus of 7. Europe is lousy, 5 bonus, 5 entry points. Australia and Asia is a good combo, if you take Ukraine aswell you have 3 border countries with a bonus of 9. Middle East/Ukraine is a brilliant place to block off at. Africa suffers from the same problems as Europe.

Don't go for Asia striaght away, it's just too bloody big.
As other posters said Australia is a great place to start off, but don't get completely hung up about it.

Knocking players out is also very important, as you get their risk cards.

That's all I can think of for now.

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Also, keep all your men on your borders, to dissuade people from attacking you, if you can slowly build an empire without ever being attacked you can rule the world! Also make sure you take a country and a risk card every turn.

Bonus snatching is also critical, don't let them have it, while at the same time protecting your bonus. Then just grind em down.

[BarronVangorToth]

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Australia and Asia is a good combo,

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Let's call this the Royal Flush of Risk.

Do you see why?

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

[mostsmooth]

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Australia and Asia is a good combo,

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Let's call this the Royal Flush of Risk.

Do you see why?

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

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can we call it the nut Ace high royal straight flush?

[CurryLover]

Great game Risk, but the main skill is in the diplomacy involved - according to the serious players anyway (of which I am not one). Making the right alliance at the right time is what separates the excellent player from the average player, since apart from that the general overall strategy is relatively simple.

I can't think of any way to equate this with poker except for maybe the cooperative betting strategies in some high/low split games when the lock low and lock high trap another player in the middle for numerous bets.

I suppose that those players who love holding Australia because it is so easy to defend could be said to be weak-tight.

No-one mentioned one of the best known starting strategies which is to go for both Africa and South America. If you can hold these two early on and fend off attacks you often win the game.

[poker-penguin]

Then there's Diplomacy itself, no frustrating dice rolls - and in many ways far more fun.