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Sometimes people ask me if Risk is not a complete “game of luck”. It are mostly the persons who either have no strategic insight or who have just played the game not enough times.
There are hundreds of things that go on in the brain of a professional RISK player.
I admit that I am not the best player around but I am a pretty good player. I´m not on the #1 spot in the world but I can compete for the top #25.
I wonder myself what the patterns are that should be somewhere in the head of a professional risk player, so I will start this series on risk strategies. Use it for your benefit.
The first interesting thing to take into account, which not many players do, is the order of turns. By chance or by coincidence player 1 starts, then player 2, then player 3 and so on. Although it seems this should not matter it matters in fact a lot. If a complete beginner is before you in turn you could use this. If a super pro is before you in turn you could use this.
It has to do with breaking the balance in the world. A player who weakens himself and thereby weakening another player is an easy prey to be utterly destroyed. If a player goes mad and suicides on another player he will leave a trail of 1’s. The first player to collect this easy array of 1’s will gain the cards, gain enormous armies and can use this as a domino effect to conquer the world. So it is a matter of luck who will be the first in turn after the person who will suicide. So … make the person before you in turn strong enough and mad enough to suicide. Be his best friend and make the rest of the world look scary. If you are playing online focus your chat only on the player before you in turn. If you play in real life, get him a beer.
If you have a n00b player before you in turn then you lead him by providing him with easy preys on the board until he flips, you could also lock him in some corner by placing 100 against 10 in some connection so he can only go 1 way one turn or another. There are numerous ways to achieve this. You could of course also influence the player before you by using words and slowly move him in the objective of killing another player. This is only important for the player directly in turn before you, so you should focus all your energy on this specific player and less on other players to achieve your goal of letting him go wild on another player. Try to understand what he or she is trying to do.
Sometimes it works other times not for a direct victory but the point: the player just before you in turn is most important. So too keep this in your mind and analyze his or hers actions and think on how you can influence!
