Hey, I'm new to the forums, and I have a question about my board and edition. The board my dormates and I are using has been in the dorm for quite a while, and as such some of the boxes and the rules are missing, so I cannot identify the edition nor the year it was published.
Here's the pictures so that someone may help identify it.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3568/20100418133612.jpg
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/6039/20100418133638.jpg
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/12/20100418133701.jpg
Edit: After comparing pictures online, I have concluded that this is the 1998/1999 edition.
As you guys may or may not have realized, East Africa and the Middle East aren't connected. My friends and I have played quite a few full games with this set up, and just last night after one game one of my friends realized that there may be a printing error; I think in most games, East Africa and the Middle East are connected. I was hoping I could get a definitive answer on this.
My friend and I have also realized that Africa seems to be very powerful. My analyzing the board, we concluded that Africa now would by far be the most powerful continent, for it only has 2 territories to defend, has 3 bonus troops, and has gateways into South America, Europe, and Asia all at the same time, thus making it much more superior to South America, and Europe is now essentially a bad starting place due to the power of Africa. Are our conclusions correct?
Also, in case I don't convince the rest of my dorm to play with a dotted line between the two countries (we do have varying rules; for example, defender rolls after the attacker, you only put 1 guy on territories you control when you turn in risk cards with your territory, you can do that multiple times, you can turn in multiple times when you are 6 cards or more, etc.), what would the ramifications be? Would it utterly destroy the balance of the game?
Thanks for any help given to me. :D
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