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I always conquer Ireland, Engalnd and Iceland, then maybe the Scandinavian countries, but i'm always so nervous to take over France, when i know i have plenty of troops to do so.
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what an epic game i found myself playing it for hours and then going back and watching the replay..... every game needs a replay lol
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The youtube videos I saw also show the npc's placing FAR less armies on their turns than when I play. Do the npc's sometimes get so unlucky they fail? Whatever it is, this level cannot ultimately be a just a test of skill. It is VERY dependent on luck and restarting turns to see what the enemy will do. In the end it is nothing more than a frustrating gamble.
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How is it that on the insane challenge with virtually all of the north world a single enemy on the team of 5 can place more armies than I can? It's mathematically impossible. Also consider the value of the cards. The extra armies card is virtually worthless. +6 armies will make so little difference the level would be about as impossible without it. They have armies of 60 by turn 10 so what the hell is +6 supposed to do? Also the abandon card is nice but it only gives the npc's a reason to build a massive 100+ army which they can somehow do in as little as two turns. Once that breaks through you're screwed anyway. Even with the best of luck and the best territories captured I cannot fool myself for a second thinking winning this level is possible.
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Fun game, but it would be a little more interesting if the Hard Europe Challenge was so luck dependent. It's not fun starting over and over just waiting for a few things to break your way in the first couple rounds.
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@cschr - well if they wanted to simulate Russia in WW2 they would have had to give them tonnes more troops but only have them about 1/2 as effective as German ones. Also they would have to simulate a Russian winter. Remember - Never get involved in a land war in Asia!!
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Would have won the hard badge if not for my dumb 'ally.' Won in 25 turns instead of 24 due to failure of ally to capture a gimme territory.
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For the Insane Challenge, I saw 50 pink attack 50 purple. And the result of it was the purple area transformed into 100....
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Beaten levels 2,3, and 5 in 13/22/25 turns, without guides. (=<
For levels 3 and 5, the best places to start are Africa/Antarctica/North America. If you meet any AI's within the first 3 to 5 turns, you should probably restart. Best way of winning is holding Africa, then Antarctica, South America, and then North America; attacking/starting in Europe/Australia/Asia in the early stages generally is too hard to win.
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The gold for mission 4 is nigh on impossible I have done the level with 4 or 5 turns to spare but the stupid red is in my way. I send him my armies and air-drop to strategic locations and it still gets it wrong.
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Mester - retart untiul you're in Africa or the Americas. Focus on conquering stuff early on for bonuses, then try to take and hold important chokepoints.
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feels like level 3 is impossible... if someone have a good tip for me to clear it plz send me a mail? the game is really well made and might be too hard for beginners to start with but hey challenges has allways trained beginners but i still have a very heavy trouble coming through level 3...
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Bleh, I find the world map with the tons of countries very hard to play... after 23 turns only got two 'continents' and getting owned. Lolz. Need 25 turns for gold medal :-/
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kfgrasshopper-on your first turn, move your big armies evenly to Midlands and Wales, then transfer them to Southeast and Southwest on your second turn. The enemy will attack and usually lose ALL of his first two big armies. Remember that to attack 50 armies, you need 100, but to defend against 50 you might only need 30. Try to create predictable paths for your enemy and then transfer armies into his path early in your turn. Sometimes you miss, but when you do it right, you save a LOT of armies.
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Great game. Probably the most difficult and time consuming Medium challenge I've done...the hard might as well be an impossible. So much has to break *just* right to beat those round limits.
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Dude the challenge in Europe is so HARD!!! I can't stop my 'ally' from being destroyed or even myself from holding over 300 armies on all fronts BUT I SHALL ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK! Any way AMAZING game. And Next time make something like this navies and air raids to deplete the enemies troops then it would it be one of the best strategy games that has a very slight resemblence to risk.
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Oh and I was trying to hold my own against him and he broke through into north america. I lost in one turn. As in one turn he took alaska. The very next turn all of my territory (I had all of north and south america) was his and I'd lost somehow.
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Mission 3 is unbeatable. Single AI somehow controls 3/4ths of the entire world by the time I even run into it. Once I do all other AI are dead and it somehow has all that territory even though I have been expanding at breakneck speed.
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To get gold in mission 1
Turn 1) Put all your armies into S. Europe attack Middle East.
Turn 2) Put some or all your armies in S. Europe again and attack Ukraine. Put the rest in Middle East and attack India.
Turn 3) Put all armies in India and attack Siam.
Turn 4) Put all armies in Siam and attack Indonesia.
Turn 5) Put all armies in Indonesia and attack Western Australia with half the armies and New Guinea with the other half.
Turn 6) Put all armies in either Western Australia or New Guinea and attack Eastern Australia.
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I agree with professor jumbo. Took me a while to beat crazy but you can clearly see that the AI opponent closest to me got 11 army on round to vs my 5. I would be excited to see a version two where the AI moved smartly and didn't need as much cheating to play.
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only one problem is that u cant attack from one side to the other like alaska to the most north-easternly part of russiabut u cant do it because it deselects the country your using to attack
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Fun game, but seems unbalanced. Everybody thinks the AI is good, it isn't, it's just got some bonuses. For example 33 armies vs. 13 AI armies = 33 lost armies for 10 lost A.I. armies. 2 AI armies attacking 1 of yours will win 3/4 times, but the reverse is not true. Also I'm currently getting 35 armies per Turn while the Brown AI should be getting 38 but instead the Brown AI is getting 78 per turn. I'd say maybe 3.5/5 , too much AI cheese. But still pretty fun.
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I didn't think it was possible to do the Europe challenge (and get the Hard badge) but with just a little luck and lot of careful manuvering I nailed it in 22 turns!! Great game - it actually has tactical elements unlike the actual Risk game it is based off.