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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
You can't play with my friends doing that.
We have one guy that will invariably sit in Australia and build up a Mongolian hoard. Then when he gets tired of it, he just storms through Asia, detonating anyone in his path until he finally runs out of guys. He was mostly a king-maker because he'd be the guy that stays out of the way just long enough to plunger-!@#$ somebody, leaving a likely clear winner.
It actually works for him on occasion because house rules allowed for trading of cards, territories, etc... so he'd sit down there and blackmail guys into not destroying them out of sheer spite. It would turn into an arms race with guys trying to 'buy' this guy's army and in so doing, they essentially built his for him.
It was essentially RISK: Machiavelli Style.
That strategy worked much more poorly when we used the real rules. But really, in a Total War kinda way, our method was much more accurate.
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I used to try a strategy that works kind of in reverse. People don't like Europe because it can be attacked from so many different areas, but that also leaves you available to attack anybody from all different areas. I would only implement it if everybody was being kind of a pussy in the opening turns. I would immediately grab for Europe or most of Europe, then dink around in Asia or Africa just so I could conquer at least one country every turn. Then I would gear up for a massive assault into either North America or Asia.
I've wanted more than anything to beat history and do what Hitler and Napoleon have never been able to pull off. Thus far it has never worked for me.