RISK Domination VIII: Finished!!

[minionofmidas]

All to Kentucky.

Attack KY-TN until I'm down to 5 or 6 units in Kentucky or Tennessee has been taken.
Either way, await further instructions.

[minionofmidas]

This is where I mention that I was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Nashville. Which I know only because there are surprisingly few important anniversaries on that date - certainly noticeably less than it's due share of 1/365th.

All to Kentucky.

Attack KY-TN until I'm down to 5 or 6 units in Kentucky or Tennessee has been taken.
Either way, await further instructions.

Provisional map

I don't see where I ordered to put them all in Tennessee. I didn't say "do or die".

Though I see I didn't explicitly specify that I wanted to decide that afterwards, either.

So yeah. Depending on we handle the situation, either I want

7 units to stay behind in Kentucky, 9 to move to Tennessee. Attack TN-GA-FL-AL do or die. Await further instructions, though those will only concern a possible tactical move.

or

Attack TN-GA-FL-AL do or die, but leaving 7 behind in Tennessee. Tactically move 6 units from Tennessee to Kentucky and end turn.

[minionofmidas]

It may be a language thing, but "all to kentucky" to me says "all units, move to kentucky, leaving none behind"

Uh, that meant "deploy all my reinforcements in Kentucky", and was interpreted as such.

[minionofmidas]

Thanks Joe. I love you. I'll make sure to clarify on these things in the future.

Move the two from Illinois to Kentucky and end turn.

[minionofmidas]

Also, my current possessions violate the Mull of Kintyre Rule.

[minionofmidas]

Righto, here's my obligatory infantry (in case anyone wondered about the point of last round's southern adventure... yes, I'm a greedy units hound.)

   

This will probably fail but I need to try. Place 4 in Georgia and 13+2 in Alabama. Attack GA-SC-NC. Attack AL-MS-LA-TX. Await further instructions.

[minionofmidas]

TX-AR do or die. If successful, AR-TN do or die, then NC-TN, then KY-TN.
If TX-AR is unsuccessful, MO-AR do or die. If successful, NC-TN, then KY-TN.
Whatever happens, await further instructions at this point (though unless AR has still not fallen, they'll by concerning a tactical move, if that.)

[minionofmidas]

Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight.

Stop counting my chickens before they hatch.

[minionofmidas]

Important message to Teddy

Whatever you do, don't attack the Midwest. The Mikado did, and the Mikado is dead. Bacon King did, and Bacon King is porkroast. If you do, you are dead and Gustaf wins this game. I have seven cards on hand.

Important message to Gustaf

Whatever you do, don't attack the Midwest. The Mikado did, and the Mikado is dead. Bacon King did, and Bacon King is porkroast. If you do, you are dead and Teddy wins this game. I have seven cards on hand.


Thanks Joe, move three from Arkansas to Missouri and end my turn.

[minionofmidas]

Won't you?

Obviously, if you have a set then I probably can't wipe you out on my own. But Gustaf and I together can (you'll have no cards left, so no reason on earth for Gustaf not to go for it). So maybe you should eliminate Gustaf's westerly possessions, thus also leaving Gustaf with no choice but to attack me and incur my wrath.

[minionofmidas]

That seems like his worse possible call.

I can certainly think of worse ones.

That would only strengthen your odds of winning.

Yours as well. Kind of obviously.

[minionofmidas]

Obviously ganging up on me is the "normal", first reaction in this situation. It is what we did with BK, after all.
Whether it actually is the most reasonable move for Teddy is less certain... not clearly wrong, I'm not saying that.

[minionofmidas]

You actually have more units than me. The Southeast is ridiculously undefended.
Also, of course, my threat was quite specific... it did not concern my Plains states, for instance. And I will act on it.

[minionofmidas]

You actually have more units than me. The Southeast is ridiculously undefended.
Also, of course, my threat was quite specific... it did not concern my Plains states, for instance. And I will act on it.

I might have more units, but I don't have a double-set of cards to throw into the mix...

You might have one. Or you might not. You'll have before long, anyways. (Anyways you still can't use the NY troops for an attack.)

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, he's got the placing of one little auxiliary verb as wrong as it could possibly be.

[minionofmidas]

Ok, been thinking long and hard about this. Given how far Teddy took his attack it'd obviously be way, way more beneficial to me to do as Bacon King suggested here. However, a word given is a word given. Sorry, Lewis.  

Dude, chill out. You've won the game. You're free.

[minionofmidas]

Nothing to be gained from not doing this, as all is lost no matter what...

                

            

So that's 16 armies plus the 5 I'm due anyways plus 2 each on Illinois, North Dakota and Florida.

Place all 21 in Kentucky. Attack KY-TN-AR-OK-KS-NE-WY-ID-WA-OR-CA-NV do or die. Await further instructions if, at any point, I am attacking with fewer units than are defending or at the end of the string.

[minionofmidas]

You forgot Nevada. I'd be attacking there with the same number of units as are defending, I said stop if there's fewer.
So yeah, attack Nevada from California do or die. (As it amounts to the same thing as the original order now. Even though I'm of two minds on whether it's a reasonable thing to do.)

EDIT: No, sorry, I will correct that. Have one go at Nevada from California, then end that attack irrespective of outcome.

Attack South Dakota from whichever of Iowa and Minnesota has more units on it, using Iowa if they're equal. (So, start from Iowa, switch to Minnesota when I lose a unit, etc pp.) Then, attack Montana do or (most likely) die, first from North Dakota, then from South.

Move the Floridians to Alabama and end turn.

Pray that Teddy has the good sense to pass through New Mexico while he's rolling me back again.

[minionofmidas]

Change your username lewis, I can't PM you about a secret alliance!!! XD

Yes you can. There's a way around it.

I forget right now how it works and how it doesn't, so I'll just change it anyways. XD

And if I'd been able to conceive of failing to take SD from IA and MN combined but taking MT from ND alone, I would of coursehave ordered to attack SD from MT next. Actually, if I'd been able to conceive of that failure I would have ordered the attack to be continued from ND, and ignored MT altogether.

[minionofmidas]

Now Lewis is spread out too thin. It won't be hard at all for Gustaf to sweep up the South, and Teddy will be able to recapture much of his lost territory. If you're going to conquer that much territory in one turn, and spread yourself out that much, you have to eliminate at least one enemy player.

I've been spread out too thin since the elimination of BK. I had only one hope if I were to keep my chances of victory (chances that really were only born that very turn) alive, and that was to bluff and cajole myself into keeping the bulk of my property for a turn or two more. I didn't think that could have happened if I'd kept mum, either, hence the threats. Eliminating the middleman was too clearly the logical thing to do. Though for Teddy to undertake the brunt of the work was absolutely not. I wonder what Gustaf blackmailed him with.

[minionofmidas]

I think that's called rolling over.

[minionofmidas]

Put in Montana, go MT-SD-WY-UT-AZ.

EDIT: Oh, and end my turn right after that without waiting for further instructions. Forgot to mention that.

[minionofmidas]

I propose a surrender, if Lewis wants in, to Gustaf.

Nah, let him pointlessly kill our few straggling units and randomly choose a second-place finisher.

[minionofmidas]

Time to marry my mistress and sentence my police chief to death in absentia, I suppose.

[minionofmidas]

It should be noted that me and Fezzy has a bit of a Federer v Nadal thing going, in that I think we only met once and he won that one (although that was Lewis' fault...)

I don't remember that.