Hi, Thomas!! I am pretty good at Risk also, but find that mostly adults play it. It definitely does bring out my more militaristic urges, so that I can at least vicariously feel like Genghis Khan must have. We have more in common than total disgust for mince! Castle Risk is more gentle, and obviously is the precursor to Risk, as it is packaged in the same box in deluxe sets. It has diplomats, castles, and if you are really lucky you can go by sailing ship to land on another continent's shores and conquer a country.
I have to tell you that it requires concentration, though, and getting set up with armies, establishing your territory, etc., take some time. Last night, because there were six of us playing, an hour went by before the game was really about to get going, and two people still had no idea what the rules were!! The VERY large children here by this time had terrorized the cat, shot each other in the foreheads with plastic darts, spewed soda on each other, eaten all the special-occasion-only sour cream with onion potato chips, giggled incessantly and flirted with each other. When someone was laughing so loud they inadvertently knocked half the armies off the board, we all agreed to end the game without having ever started it, and they all went to watch a movie in the tv room while I went online.
So much for tradition!!! But it was a fun New Year's Eve anyway. Everyone actually drank the sparkling juice and toasted the new year, we went outside at midnight and screamed good wishes and drove the neighbors mad, probably, while somewhere in the forest fireworks went off, and everyone got one sip of my apricot ale and they all agreed it tasted like soap!!
I hope you are having a wonderful year so far, as well!!
Christine |
