Let's Conquer the World: A Let's Play of Risk!

[Melfice]

It's about 90% done.
Give a guy a break!

Tomorrow.

Same offer stands. Yell at me, or burn effigies. I don't care. Just don't leave me hangin'. That'd just make me feel worse.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Melfice

burn effigies.

[Geminex]

Yeah, Melfice.
We wouldn't leave you hanging.
That'd just be mean.
I hate it when people leave other people hanging.
I mean, can you imagine? What a bastard thing to do!

[tacticslion]

Melfiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...
Oh yes we dooooooooooooo...
You are great Melfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...
And updates tooooooooooooooo...
But our dear Melfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...
If you can't shoooooooooow...
Us what haaaappeeeeened...
...
...
I still love you anyway. ALSO, I love you more than Geminex does! And everyone else here combined! Times infinity!

P.S. Can I has this world?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Pfft, you guys suck at sucking up. Everyone knows real men suck up with a hefty, under-the-table bribe of considerable cash value.

PS; Melfice, your cheque is in the post.

[Melfice]

The state of the world after the re-enforcements:



Totally Bitchin' Land of Drgon




Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny

Separated from their own, the Luminous Imperial army in Argentina push to reunite with their American friends and families.



With only one Hommnyr defender against the four battalions, Peru is quickly lost, paving the way for the Imperial Train of Destiny to steam on north.



Again, only a single battalion of the Red Army stands in the way of the Great Reunion, swiftly crushed under three battalion's worth of Luminous Imperial Boots® (Best quality! Free when you sign up with the Luminous Imperial Army! Contact your closest recruiter!).



Finally, the Final Showdown. The already slimmed down Imperial regiment faces, for the final time in this pilgrimage north, a single battalion of Hommnyr soldiers, ready to lay down their lives to protect their homeland.
Finally smelling home, the Imperial soldiers storm past the defenders and embrace their families and loved ones. Overcome with sympathy and love, the Red Army temporarily lay down their arms - only to have their actual arms blown off by explosives, fired by a small group of Imperial soldiers who stayed behind. The only Red remaining in Central America being the blood spilled, these soldiers can take a (no doubt short) rest.

Further up north, the Lord High Regulator apparantly sees an opportunity to finally unite North America under a single flag.



Facing stiff opposition, Tacticslion hopes to use a big iceberg as cover for when he strikes at the North-Western Territories under Drgon control.
Unfortunately, the Drgon armies are just then using similar icebergs are targets for their artillery training, blowing the Imperial cover out of the water. Snipers quickly and cleanly finished off any survivors.

Over in Europe, Tacticslion orders his Russian troops to further harrass High Drgon by attacking Southern Europe.



Overpowering the Drgon army two-to-one, the six battalion strong regiment of Imperials still lost two battalions due to well placed minefields. After the Green warriors cleared those, it was a brutal massacre.

Mad with power, Tacticslion then orders a regiment of three to cross the Mediterranean sea to liberate North Africa from Awesome control.



Facing five battalions in defence, many consider this move suicidal, but with civil unrest in Tunesia flaring up once more, the defenders are spread thin keeping Tunesians from defecting to the enemy and actually fighting off the enemy. With help from the rebels, the Luminous Imperials manage to infiltrate the Awesomely Imperial army in North Africa and with the regional leaders assassinated during this operation, the territory quickly changes colour from blue to green.

A final push further into Central Africa should cement Tacticslion's foothold into the continent.



Briefly taking hold of this territory, the Central African Imperial defenders resort to guerilla tactics, and knowing the jungle far better than the Green warriors, quickly eject most of the invaders from their lands. Unfortunately for the Luminous Imperials, this primarily means the bits that couldn't be eaten.

Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny takes Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Southern Europe and North Africa!
Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny DOESN'T take a Reward this Round!? Whaaaaat!?


Imperium of Awesome

Supreme Overlord Hawk, unaware of the troubles in his own continent, moves on northward. Seeing a weakened Great Britain, he quickly moves in.



The single defender battalion is quickly pushed in the Thames by the five battalion strong regiment. Too busy with tea-time, they fail to take notice and suffer a watery death.

Leaving Europe for what it is, Hawk looks back to South America. From Brazil, he moves nine battalions to Argentina, which was nearly abandoned by the Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny.

(No picture, for some reason...)

From Argentina, the Awesomely Imperial soldiers follow the exact same trail the Luminous Imperials have.



Eight heavily armed battalions stare the single defending group into submission without a drop of blood spilled. (That is a lie. One Blue soldier pricked himself while sowing up a tear in his combat fatigues, spilling a drop of blood on his uniform. But that was the ONLY blood spilled.)

Carrying on, the Imperial soldiers quickly reach the Venezuelan borders where they meet yet another Green battalion.



These soldiers, natively being from Venezuela, were not so keen to surrender as their Peruan brothers, despite the overwhelming odds. The Blue army, on a roll, simply steam-roll the Luminous Imperial and take Venezuela for themselves.

Now controlling South Africa as well, Hawk is ready to celebrate yet another succesful campaign when he hears the loss of North Africa.
One continent controlled, one partially lost. The Supreme Overlord cannot be happy about this.

Imperium of Awesome takes Great Britain, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela!
Imperium of Awesome lost complete control of Africa!
Imperium of Awesome conquered South America!


Greater Hommnyr

Seeing Tacticslion abandoned Moscow, Impact swiftly orders his North European troops to take Russia.



One battalion para-drops on the Red Square, securing the Kremlin, while the remaining seven engage the single defender. Easily taken care of, the Red regiment now controls Russia.

To secure their new acquisition from the Zedanians, what better way than a giant wall of impenetrable mountains?
Thus the Chancellor looks east to the Ural mountain range



With the High Drgon still sleeping, the single Drgon battalion is in disarray and driven up the mountain range, turning their own defence against them. With little to no supplies and stuck, they are a small threat and will die sooner or later.

Looking south into Afghanistan, the desert there would form another fine defensive line.



Under the guise of liberating the Drgon inhabitants from terrifying terrorists, the Hommnyr secretly pay off the rebels to be folded into the Red army as irregulars. The thankful Afghan populace easily turn over control to the Greater Hommnyr.

Hearing about the loss of Britain, Impact sets his sights back to Europe, travelling via the Middle East, conquering all in his wake.



Five battalions are sent South-West, against a single Drgon battalion. Having heard of the advancing Red army, the Drgons laid a vast minefield. One battalion of Hommnyr soldiers is taken out by it, but the rest succesfully traverse the no-man's land and lay waste to the Drgon camp.

Forces now thinned out, Impact orders a final advance into Southern Europe before regrouping.



One Luminous Imperial battalion stands firm but, aside from a few casualties on Hommnyr's side, they are unable to halt the advance. The full three battalions march via Greece into Rome to take control of Southern Europe.


Greater Hommnyr takes Ukraine, Ural, Afghanistan, Middle East and Southern Europe!

Empire of Zedan

Tzar Aguia looks to further expand his territory into Asia, and chooses Afghanistan as his next conquest.



From China, four battalions march into Afghanistan. Initially halted by a sandstorm, the natural defence line of the desert proves inadequate to the Chinese troops who had time to train in the Mongolian Gobi desert.
A single defender then makes no difference. Afghanistan falls once more.

Afghanistan conquered, the Tzar looks to the Middle East, and it's rich oil supplies.



Three battalions are drafted in India and shipped to the Middle East, where they face a single Red defending battalion. Heavy tanks manage to take out one of the attacker's battalions, but as the distance is closed between them, anti-tank weaponry takes care of the defender.

Finally, in the east lies Japan. A single Red stronghold in the growing Black sea.

(Once more, no pictures for whatever arcane reason.)

As they tried hundreds of years ago, an army of Mongolian soldiers is sent across the East China Sea. As if the gods were toying with them, again the weather turns bad halfway across. This time, the Mongolians are better prepared. The large battleships easily sail through the storm and the troops land on the Japanese shore.
Losing one battalion to banzai attacks, the Mongolians have no further troubles conquering Japan due to it's continued insistence of maintaining only a light self-defence force. The remaining two battalions are rounded up and locked away for safe keeping.


Empire of Zedan takes Afghanistan, Middle East and Japan!


State of the world after Round 3:


Re-enforcements for Round 4 and card/reward distribution. Also, turn order for Round 4.
Greater Hommnyr: 7 territories + 2 cities / 3 = 3 + 1 for Capitals = 4 armies + any armies for traded in cards
Imperium of Awesome: 12 territories + 5 cities / 3 = 5 + 2 for South America + 2 for Capitals = 9 armies + any armies for traded in cards
Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny: 8 territories + 3 cities / 3 = 3 + 1 for capital = 4 armies + any armies for traded in cards
Empire of Zedan: 14 territories + 4 cities / 3 = 6 + 2 for Australia + 1 for capital = 9 armies + any armies for traded in cards
Totally Bitchin' Land of Drgon: 1 territory = 3 armies MINIMUM + any armies for traded in cards

All Leaders except for Dark Drgon receive a card for taking over a territory! The amount of stars you have will be emailed to you to ensure secrecy.

Turn order for the next Round:

1. Greater Hommnyr
2. Grand Imperium of Luminous Destiny
3. Totally Bitchin' Land of Drgon*
4. Imperium of Awesome
5. Empire of Zedan

* Drgon! Please tell me if you're still willing, or even able, to play this game.
If you're not, then somebody else should probably take over. If they're willing, of course.

EDIT: Also, due to bribery, Dark Drgon and Sage Harpuia won due to NOT bribing me.
The end.

[Sage Harpuia]

Last again? Bugger...
Perhaps as an contingency plan, all most leaders should appoint a scheming Grand Vizier to take over leadership for a short period of time when a leader becomes "indisposed".

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Damnit tactics, now Melfice can't make a joke about me aquiring transforming dinosaurs!

[krogothwolf]

Zedan seems to be a fearful Empire...

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Hawk

Damnit tactics, now Melfice can't make a joke about me aquiring transforming dinosaurs!

I honestly didn't think he'd make it that far.
I was THIS close to fixing those dice rolls, and then taking pictures of my Masterpiece Grimlock stomping around on the board.

But I am a fair game-master.

Another time, I suppose.