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RISK FORMS: MAPS -- REGION (## Territories, YEAR, ORIGIN)
posting in response to any leading thread (THIS: BOARD)
may add to the overarching taxonomy of RISK FORM HISTORY.
I'll be adding more to this as time wears on. find the
original or an extant thread if you're addressing a
different category. ;)
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BOARD
map
# region
6-Continent Earth (42 territories)
CONQUEST OF THE WORLD (*Le conquete du monde* 1957 France)
RISK (*The Continental Game* 1959 USA)
6-Empire Europe (## territories)
CASTLE RISK (*Game of Daring Strategy and Conquest*, 1986, USA)
9-Continent Earth (72 territories ("areas"))
RISK++ (based on Estonian global maps 1990s, Schoonderwoerds)
[WWII Theatre]
RISK (*Going Over the Trenches*, 1999, USA)
6-Continent Earth, Subaquatic, Lunar (42 Earth / 14 Subaquatic territories)
RISK 2210 A.D. (2001, USA)
9-Continent Middle-Earth (64 territories)
RISK LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy Edition (2002, USA)
Ancient World, Underworld (## Earth / ## Underworld territories)
RISK GODSTORM (2004, USA)
[WHAT MAP?? DEATH-STAR? BASES?]
RISK STAR WARS (2005, USA)
more?
corrections/additions?
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BALANCE:
[MAP] features [links, barriers, etc.]
links between continents
sea routes
connectors
quadrants
multi-map, multi-board
BATTLE-UNITS
armies/batallions
leaders/generals
special species
adjunct parts
dice
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CARDS
territories
wild/jokers
specialty
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[any other possible GAME PARTS not covered by the above?]
RULES
set-up
territory control
reinforcements
turns
cardplay
combat
invasion
special units
card possession
fortifications (castles/strongholds/etc.)
battle
elimination
redeployment/fortification/supply-lines
spoils/earnings
objectives/missions/victory
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