Comments on: Risk Legacy

By: Bloynoys

Bloynoys — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:31:56 +0000

Amazing Game (Edit: 1/24/13) This is an absolutely incredible board game. I can not speak for the entire length of the 15 games but we are through multiple and I have never felt as much excitement to continue playing. One thing that must be done is do not search around on the internet for the spoilers, the game comes with 6 locked card pouches that can only be opened at certain times, thus changing the game drastically. Although it may not be fun playing a second time wiht a new version, the changes they have made to the tried and true risk set up have greatly increased the speed and strategy of the game. Do not believe that all 15 games will take as long as a normal game of risk, the end game is no longer world domination for most of the games, and thus the games happen much faster. The rule book is dense but once getting through it (around an hourish) we played about three games in around 3.5-4 hours (20 minutes-1 hour – 2 hours).The only con is that you must have the same players play each of the…

By: Serazene

Serazene — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:16:55 +0000

Hard to describe how amazing this game is No spoilers in this post, but I will be talking about the rules immediately out-of-the-box.One of my friends gathered us together to play this game, explaining it’s “like Risk” but with “permanent effects, so that the game changes forever every time you play”. Succinct, yet accurate.What this description doesn’t capture (and what’s impossible to understand until you actually play), is just *how* the board changes and how *mind-blowing* it is.The default rules are very similar to vanilla Risk, with a few additions. The win conditions are relaxed (instead of capturing the entire board, you gather four red star tokens in various ways… games run 1-2 hours). In addition, there are five races to choose from with various perks (+1 to defense rolls, extra manueverability, etc).To give an idea of how zany this game is: each race starts with two possible perks. You choose one for each race and literally throw the other in the trash. In the first five…