# So. Who's for Risk? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 24, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778 "2008-01-24T04:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/121 "2008-03-07T12:36:20Z")
looks like you got your pretty lake back. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/122 "2008-03-07T13:02:32Z")
🙂 see post 119 😉 just killed off a corporal, a cadet, and a private in an Asia game - garnered myself 107 points. But I’m still a cook. See I’m good, but my rank lulls them into complacency. What keeps me a cook is I cannot stay away from th Doodle Earth board, so I lose more than I win. But when I do win, lately, it’s big. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/123 "2008-03-07T16:24:12Z")
The Triples game (3v3) has been opened on a Classic map. Game # 1968919, usual password. The teams are determined by order of sign up, so if you want to be on my team, sign up now; if you want to play against me, wait until 2 others have signed on. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/124 "2008-03-07T17:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] The Triples game (3v3) has been opened on a Classic map. Game # 1968919, usual password. The teams are determined by order of sign up, so if you want to be on my team, sign up now; if you want to play against me, wait until 2 others have signed on. [/QUOTE] As soon as I get home I’m signing up for this. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/125 "2008-03-08T01:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] The Triples game (3v3) has been opened on a Classic map. Game # 1968919, usual password. The teams are determined by order of sign up, so if you want to be on my team, sign up now; if you want to play against me, wait until 2 others have signed on. [/QUOTE] bump ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/126 "2008-03-08T03:45:42Z")
I just signed up. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/127 "2008-03-08T04:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=Madd Maxx] I just signed up. [/QUOTE] you, **Oslo** , and me - against who? **Sonoran** (Zaphod)?, **mchapman** (Advisary)?, and maybe **Greedy**? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/128 "2008-03-08T04:34:43Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] you, **Oslo** , and me - against who? **Sonoran** (Zaphod)?, **mchapman** (Advisary)?, and maybe **Greedy**? [/QUOTE] or how about **shijinn** , **Kyrie** , and **Shai’tan**? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/129 "2008-03-08T05:03:27Z")
Perhaps I should have asked first: how do team games work? (Still time for me to drop out, right?) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/130 "2008-03-08T05:08:48Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Perhaps I should have asked first: how do team games work? (Still time for me to drop out, right?) [/QUOTE] yes, but please don’t. first, see [post # 105](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9519694&postcount=105). Then consider that all three team members gain points on a win, regardless of who the last one standing is. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/131 "2008-03-08T05:20:07Z")
Thank you **Sonoran** , **mchapman** , and **shijinn**. That was a helluva game. And I couldn’t have made cadet without your help. 😉 Seriously, that was a great game, I just got real lucky with some of those dice rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/132 "2008-03-08T17:20:05Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Thank you **Sonoran** , **mchapman** , and **shijinn**. That was a helluva game. And I couldn’t have made cadet without your help. 😉 Seriously, that was a great game, I just got real lucky with some of those dice rolls. [/QUOTE] I don’t know, Anyrose, you’re a great strategist, with an towards picking advantageous partners. 😛 . I really enjoyed the great lakes game. I see you finally knocked me out last night. Congrats. Thought I might hang in one more turn. Not. I’m leary about joining any new games. I am moving at the end of this month. I can get in one more, I think. I’ll go ahead and join the game, but if need be, can a doper get with me behind the scenes to phone in moves until I’m on line again? This will only be necessary if the game is still running at the end of March. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/133 "2008-03-08T18:42:11Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] I’ll go ahead and join the game, but if need be, can a doper get with me behind the scenes to phone in moves until I’m on line again? This will only be necessary if the game is still running at the end of March. [/QUOTE] That’s fine with me, but a) it’d have to be someone not already in the game (ConquerClub has ISP tracers) and b) you’d have to give that person your CC ID and password so that s/he could make your moves ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/134 "2008-03-08T20:57:22Z")
Ahhh, I didn’t think about the ISP tracers. I certainly don’t want to jeapordize anyone’s account on my account. (So to speak.) I guess we’ll burn that bridge If we come to it. I do have (non-doper) friends here who would make moves for me. That’s not too much of a cheat, I think, in the circumstances. Moving a cat across country while conquering worlds requires some finesse. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/135 "2008-03-08T21:20:40Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] Ahhh, I didn’t think about the ISP tracers. I certainly don’t want to jeapordize anyone’s account on my account. (So to speak.) I guess we’ll burn that bridge If we come to it. I do have (non-doper) friends here who would make moves for me. That’s not too much of a cheat, I think, in the circumstances. Moving a cat across country while conquering worlds requires some finesse. [/QUOTE] depends - how many armies does the cat get this turn? :D:D:D eta: meanwhile, we need two more players in the team game. see post #123 above for game number and password info. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/136 "2008-03-09T02:26:02Z")
c’mon **shijinn** or **mchpman** - one space left. **Sonoran** & **Greedy** need you ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/137 "2008-03-09T12:32:21Z")
okay - the key to the team games is the chat box it defaults to ‘teammates only’ so that is where all the strategizing happens. Remember to check it often because coorperation is the way the other teams I’ve played (on and against) have won. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/138 "2008-03-10T23:22:23Z")
_bump_ Don’t forget to read and post in the chat box at the bottom of the game screen. Leave messages for your teammates, or read the ones they’ve left for you. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/139 "2008-03-11T23:04:30Z")
Woo hoo! A victory and a promotion to PFC! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-for-risk/434778/140 "2008-03-12T12:54:19Z")
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