Has anyone else noticed that when a multi player game of Risk reaches a stage where 3 or sometimes 4 players have amassed continent spanning empires, the situation can often resemble the situation in 1984 where there were 3 giant super-States with core territory and there was a wide stretch of land which consistantly changed hands while the core territory of the empires remained unthreatened.
I played a game once which started of as a 6 player game, but it was eventually whittled down to 3 players all 3 of whom were of roughly equal strength and the game seemede to stay at a stalmate for perhaps half a dozen or so moves where just 6 or so territories changed hands back and forth while no-one dared to open a new front or go for a big push. |