Rahm Es Hestos wrote:I'm still confused as to why people said what I did was stupid. Are you people telling me that I should back off a continent I more or less control because some other player comes in with less armies and tells me to? Am I being instructed that I should leave a territory I fought for and give it to someone else because if I don't that other player is going to suicide against me the rest of the game? No offense people, but what I understand from some of these posts is that you guys have very little concept of this game. I refuse and will always refuse to hand over a continent and move elsewhere because it is in some other person's best interest that I do so. Renewit was not saying that we should coordinate against the strongest player. Renewit was NOT saying he would move his men out of SA. Renewit WAS saying that I should leave SA and go for Africa, letting him have an easily defended bonus while I sat there trying to irk a living on a harder to control continent. Why do you ask, did I kill his men in SA in a standoffish manner?...the simple truth is he insulted me. Tell me people, if you are at an arcade and you pay to play a video game and some kid half your size comes up and tells you to leave and play another game so he can have fun instead, are you going to listen to him and scuttle away? f*ck NO. You are going to laugh in their face. Does that mean it is right for that kid to come and kick your shin every other game you play? f*ck NO. You would consider them a physco. I DID NOT senselessly kill Renewit's armies. He was telling me to leave a continent I had been going for since the start of the game so he could take it instead....the turn right before I would have taken it. There was no strategy behind what he did, no purpose. Everyone of you who is trying to justify his actions with calls of some strategy on his part are simply wrong. He decided to attack me for the rest of the game dooming us both because he didn't get his way. Did he still have a chance when I kicked him out of SA? YES. He had a big chance. Infact, the turn he ended up ensuring my demise he already controlled a large portion of the middle of the board. HE even had a 10 man set he cashed in. Instead of taking a bonus and trying to win, he decides to ram that set against me for no other reason then because it placated his wounded pride. Risk is a game of strategy people, a game of thinking. When you cease to play using strategy, cease playing to win, you have defeated the entire purpose of playing. Unless, of course, beating up on people you don't even know over the internet makes you feel better about yourself. If that's the case, God help you...God help us all.
Well, for starters, I'll give you this, at first read, I was under the impression that something else was going on. To a degree, I will soften my stance on how stupid a move your was. That said, there were at minimum 7 guys in Venez plus two of blues countries, one of which had at least 3 guys on it. So, at very minimum, you're talking about taking at least 10 guys and 3 countries out of a bonus area that pays 2 armies per turn in a four player game. If that's your idea of good tactics, then kindly refrain from telling me I don't know what I'm doing. That doesn't even take into account the "in your face" manner in which you made an enemy of one of your opponents by turn 2. I've never found that telling a guy to go screw himself right out the gate coupled with likely spending enough armies to take a bonus that I'm 5 turns away from getting them back assuming everyone leaves me alone to be all that wise.
That's your idea of a continent you basically had control over? Because you had 3 in Peru and a bunch in N Africa and there were, at minimum 10 enemy armies in the other 3 countries?
Now, once again, I also did say that I don't think this would be enough to make me go tilt. However, there's one thing very certain, if I was playing in a game with a guy who did this, I would be very certain that I was playing in a game with a guy who's got little clue of how to win this game. So, like I said, pat yourself on the back, assure yourself that you're all good and he's a psycho and we're a bunch of idiots. I could give a crap. Just trying to help. You came here looking for assurance and I'm just suggesting that you look at how you could avoid these situations.
