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#1 User is offline   Black_Gates 

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Posted 17 July 2014 - 12:16 AM

There is a lord of the rings and star wars Risk board games.it figures, the continemts are fairly easily organised/arranged. why not?
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Posted 17 July 2014 - 12:52 AM

Too risky.
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Posted 21 October 2014 - 01:04 PM

Sure things like intergalactic war and the battle if the five armies could be solved over a game if risk, but how much would you risk your legions against the like of QB and the BH?
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Posted 21 October 2014 - 01:29 PM

The Quick Ben di goes up to 7.

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Posted 22 October 2014 - 10:51 PM

Please.

We all know old QB is rocking a few of these bad boys:

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Posted 23 October 2014 - 04:50 PM

This could actually be kind of awesome. You could just play normal Risk on a Wu board. Optionally, each team could be a different race/culture (7C, Letherii, Andii, Edur, Imass, K'Chain, Icebloods, Stormguard, what-have-you) with special abilities or maybe also geographically-based bonuses. Also optionally, each team could have some number of "hero" pieces based on series characters, that have individual powers. (Ooh! And what about a variant with a wandering NPC Icarium that acts as a kind of mobile nuke/conflict deterrent...)

The board itself seems a pretty obvious place to start, though. I might have to take a crack at that...
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Posted 24 October 2014 - 11:08 AM

Sounds more like 'Axes and Allies'.
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Posted 28 October 2014 - 01:18 AM

The nice thing about risk maps is that they are nice and smooth, and you don't have to include lots of tiny details.

On the other hand, bright neon colours oh god my eyes!


I had to make up names and geography for areas not actually seen in the books, but here's a start:

Attached File  Malazan Risk Map - Lether.jpg (490.72K)
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Attached File  Malazan Risk Map - Korel.jpg (334.87K)
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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 28 October 2014 - 03:36 AM

Good start. However, you'd probably want to keep the scale closer to the original gameboard, whose continent sizes are 4, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 12:

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Posted 28 October 2014 - 11:06 AM

That is gonna get messy with 8 or 9 continents and assorted smaller islands :unworthy:
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Posted 28 October 2014 - 02:00 PM

View PostSalt-Man Z, on 28 October 2014 - 03:36 AM, said:

Good start. However, you'd probably want to keep the scale closer to the original gameboard, whose continent sizes are 4, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 12:


What's the fun in that? Wouldn't it be better to have a map that is more different from the original so the tactics and gameplay change? Otherwise you're just substituting "hide in Australia" with "hide in Jacuruku" and "you can never hold all of Asia" with "you can never hold all of Seven Cities", etc

As long as the continents' bonus army numbers are balanced to the number of regions and the difficulty of holding the continent, what does it matter if the numbers change?

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Posted 28 October 2014 - 07:34 PM

That's a pretty solid Risk assessment.
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Posted 28 October 2014 - 11:39 PM

I'm having fun!

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View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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