[proxy_user]

Many years ago, when my father was alive, he always tried to capture Asia. He always lost. My brother and I would hide out in North America or Australia, and build up our forces until we were ready to attack.

[Williams]

Kamchatka was the place.

[Flag_This]

"My brother and I would hide out in North America or Australia"

I was always partial to the South American redoubt.

[Dr. Sivana]

he always tried to capture Asia.

I have seen players win with Asia.

Two points:

1. Don't make it clear what you are up to right away. This works well if you slowly pick off Asia territories one at a time while you let someone else stop takeovers of Australia, North America and South America. Ideally you would accumulate more armies by having more territories no one else wants AND being attacked less.

2. Sit heavy in Ukraine. That keeps you from having to split armies in Ural and Afghanistan. Ideally you can feign a move for Europe, but mostly you want to keep others from getting Europe while you buildup in Asia.

[j.havenfarm]

In college I’m sure I played at least 250 times. Often we’d play two or three times, into the wee hours.

With all due respect to your late father, he violated the number one rule in the real world: NEVER WAGE A LAND WAR IN ASIA. I preferred, of course onsite and fortify New Guinea and Australia so as to get that small but consistent boost in armies to conduct operations elsewhere

[6ppc]

Nobody can hold Asia. We called the Middle East “The sweaty armpit of the world”.

[Bernard]

I would always start with Australia and South America. Fewer access points for the other players. Even Africa has too many places to concentrate on for defense.

[kosciusko51]

Many years ago, when my father was alive, he always tried to capture Asia.

"Never start a land war in Asia."

[Joe 6-pack]

I played a lot of Risk when I was younger, until the release of Axis & Allies, which I liked a lot more. The trick was for Germany to push east and Japan to push west, linking up in India. If that could be done relatively quickly, the USSR could be overwhelmed from the east, west and south leaving the remaining Allies in a pretty bad way.

[Hootowl]

I play against five computer opponents regularly and almost always win. I try to secure one of the corners, if practical, and spread out rom there.