Slow Australia Start, Late Sweep | Ep 04 | Risk (Steam) | Classic Map | 6 Players

Описание: This match started slow, then turned into a controlled snowball once the board thinned out.

It took a few turns to lock Australia, and once I had it, I had to play defense and build. Purple owned all of Africa, Yellow owned all of South America, and Green took Europe, so the midgame threat was getting boxed in. The good news was they started fighting each other, which gave me room to maneuver.

I attacked Green to strip part of Europe, then pushed through Africa into South America to break up the continent bonuses. Yellow reclaimed South America quickly, and Green rebuilt Europe, but the overall troop counts told the real story: Yellow and Blue were each under 10 troops, and Orange was under 20, so I pivoted to elimination mode.

I focused Orange in northern Asia to grab their 5 cards, traded them in for reinforcements, then stacked near South America to eliminate Yellow for 4 cards. Next I pushed into North America, eliminated Blue for 2 cards, and kept chaining trades to stay ahead of the board.

Endgame setup was basically me versus two powers:

Purple held most of North America

Green held all of Europe and all but one country in Africa

I had enough mass to wipe Purple completely, take North America, and then punch into Europe to break Green’s control. I could not finish Green on that turn, but I left them with 31 troops across 7 countries over two continents, while I had 45 troops and the rest of the map.

On Green’s next (second-to-last) turn they re-took Africa, but it did not matter. I deployed 31 additional troops, cleared their remaining presence across Asia, and reduced Africa to a single holdout with 8 troops. After that, the cleanup was straightforward.

Spoiler, results: I won the match.

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