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RISK_STRATEGY

                                             March 22, 2016

With the popular war game "Risk", I use
a strategy that I don't think is particularly
unusual:

   I build strength as quickly as
   possible, use it to attack and           The Heinlien of
   seize territory and cards, then          "Starship Troopers"
   consolidate and regroup only long        would no doubt
   enough to build the strength to          approve of this.
   attack again.

I might have told you that this is the
only effective way to play, but I've
seen another strategy in use that
completely baffled me, and yet won the
game: a player that quietly avoided
combat, and continually built up large
armies used mainly defensively, to
discourage attacks.

   When I play, I effectively teach everyone in the
   game to expect me to attack at any moment.

   This more defense-oriented stratgy sets up the
   opposite expectation: there's no need to worry
   about this odd guy that doesn't seem to know how
   to play very well, and any way his border is too
   well-fortified to be very easy to pick off a
   country just for a card...

       So instead, the more aggressive players
       wear each other down, and create a long
       range opening for the defensive player.



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