Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 3664482" data-attributes="member: 27926">Really, all you have to be careful about is holding Siam. Once you've got Australia, you just want to win one battle each turn to get a risk card and wait until the reward for a set gets so high that bonus armies for controlling continents and territories don't really matter. Expansion before then is usually counter-productive.By which time you don't really care that much about the bonus armies, because you're most likely turning in sets for 20+ armies by then. Asia's value by that point in the game is that Ukraine-Middle East makes a good defensive/staging line.It'll come as no surprise that my favourite variants are the ones that tone down the number of armies you get for a set of cards. Makes acquisition of territory much more important, and continent bonuses remain significant throughout the game.</blockquote>