Jo Pete big Fan Love your vibe and started playing wen i Had COVID but i sucked so i Just keep watching your vids and i was shocked wen you sad rotfrontkämpfer i was Like hold on and i went to the App to Check that was me cant belive i played aganst you so great i am excited to wach me lose sry 4 the Bad grammer keep Up the good Work man
Same here. Just showed up. I have watched like 5 hours so far. I grew up with risk. It hurts my brain trying to think of putting 85 troops on a country on the board game
Pete, you're doing great, and if you want to improve your Fixed gameplay, consider shifting away from the mindset of killing players for cards. Oftentimes, killing a player (in Fixed) will result in a deficit in troops (unlike in prog matches where newly gained cards entirely replace or even increase overall troops), and so a smart Fixed player will weaken an opponent and entice an ally to finish off the kill so that the ally spends more troops than you (unless, of course, the opponent is absolutely so weak that the cards they hold would be more than the troops expended to get the kill, such as magenta's kill on black in the second game). This advice is more useful when the other players in the game are perhaps less experienced, and requires only simple arithmetic. In this instance, in the first game, killing White (23 troops) for four cards (maximum value of 16 troops, but usually less) usually isn't worth it, unless the kill comes from a point of power where you're expected to spend more of your troops (i.e. you're the hegemon and retained your continent despite the assault), or if killing the other player gives you a better position (i.e. a better continent); or helps solidify an alliance. In contrast, when playing with highly skilled players in Fixed, the hegemon may be allowed to retain their power with the expectation that they are also responsible for initiating an assault and spending a greater proportion of troops in a coordinated attack against an opponent. If you're playing with random players of obviously lower skill level, this may be less important, but if you play against players who understand Fixed, this is expected knowledge for diplomatic gameplay.
There are a few advantages to taking someone out that I consider even if it does hurt your overall troop count. It can be a sneaky way to grab more territories and increase your troop generation next turn if the other players are super passive or distracted. It removes a potential aggressor. It shows the other players that you're not totally passive which can piss some people off. Or it shows that you're more active which can also scare people.
@@Chris-ls7fd Very good points, I did bring up the additional advantages of better territory, and you're right, removing a weakened player who appears like they could be a hostile opponent later on if left alive is a very valid reason to remove them while you can. And yup, showing initiative can strengthen alliances as well, just have to read the room in that case. Very good input, Chris.
I'm fine with that. I'm still really learning. There is a lot of respect inherent with the expectation that your opponents will allow you to remain the hegemon as long as you're the one knocking off the weaker players etc. My arrogance and impatience is showing.
This was a great comment! But yeah as far as benefits you also get all their territories, though you might not be able to defend it. But it’s also fun and you might put the fear of god in the rest of the players😄
Pete! I just discovered your channel and it takes me back. We got Risk banned at my high school, because me and my friends would play it during study period and it would cause such loud arguments they had to confiscate the board game.
Another strategy that granted me a win. Thank you so much. It may not have gone your way entirely in game 1 but your approach to strategizing always helps me improve so much, thank you!
50:00 so obviously tilted after that first game, but keeps laughing it off and keeps going. Some times you just got to go with the flow. Just subbed, enjoying your content 😊
Come on man, I told you that when we did it. I'm down to have more conversations like this. I'm not entirely sure how to set it up but if you are feel free to run with it.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy I am currently expanding my setup. And would probably need some ideas how to dive into certain topics. I like to have a good conversation starter, but that should do it then. 😊 I'll give it 4-8 weeks. Remind me if i am over that time.
Just happened to come across this page, I had no idea they had tournaments on risk, ive been just smoking randos for years online. Ive been missing out, so how do i go abouts getting in on these?
Dude you just showed up to my UA-cam page and I downloaded risk and played for the first time in twenty years! Never thought I’d watch someone play risk for 2 hours lol
Randomly came across a recommended video the other day. It was about 2 hrs long, I sat there learning and seeing what this game was about. Can become very intense. I'm intrigued & subscribing
09:30 Oh boy! Red trying to take Asia early game with 6 players left... this gonna be a fun fixed game. Edit: 44:52 At this point in the game I think I would either do the same attacks as u did but stack up on greenland. Or, take a gamble and take a useless 1 in Asia (or skip a card even) and at the same time say to orange to attack green through the alliances. If orange is playing for first place he has to attack but sometimes they do nothing and accept 2nd place which is probably what orange would do by the way he played
@@TheKillPeteStrategy Oh for sure! Just I have seen too many 9v3 attacks lose, too many 7v2 (or even 1) lose, and too many 14v5 lose lol. Just in 7 games of playing the couple days since I started playing this version of the game. lol I mean some games you just low roll, but of course, you are more likely to notice all the low rolls, and less likely to notice all the high rolls. But usually, with bigger fights, like 250vs250, the attacker keeps about 20-40% of starting stack it seems. Yo, I have a podcast, and I would love to have you on, ever since I found your channel I have been binge watching every vid haha. I'm still pretty small, but it's a free to speak and think podcast where all opinions are valid, highlighting the unique perspectives and value of every individual. Through a type of open discussion on any topic the unique guest picks each week. Curious if you might have the time one day maybe before the end of the year? We can chat more on discord if you want! I just don't want to self-promote on your channel without your permission of course.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy I think that if there was a sea border between Madagascar and Australia it would help a lot to stop turtles from being able to block with one country
i always felt like australia is a noob trap. like, it seems so good, 5 troops in the early game, when everyone else is only getting 3-4, only needs to defend on one front. but then you get stuck down there. only way out is through asia, which is the most difficult continent to defend on 4 fronts and nobody is gonna let you hold it, if they see you trying to do that, they will break you. it's like. . one of the Classic Blunders, "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
In Germany there's a soccer club named 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Their fans have a community and the most extreme fans, the hardest of the hardest, call themselves 'Rotfront'. So 'Rotfrontkämpfer' translates to 'fighters of the red front troops'.
Hey Pete, at 54:20 the japanese friend Teyene Tuoyo sounds like "Te llené tu hoyo", or I filled your hole. Like a Ben Dover or Joe Momma joke in spanish. Great video anyway!
41:46 I think here you make a serious strategic mistake (and in prior moves). Since you outspeed green (and green definitely outspeeds orange, nevermind orange's complete passivity), what you should have been doing before this, and should absolutely do right now when green concedes their only bonus, is to leverage your speed by always taking every open 1-territory on every turn. Take Africa, take Australia, but also take all of asia and all other singles, and leave green with only 1 territory on every turn. The reason you do this is because you can outspeed green and always have more territories than them -- they're sufficiently slow that they cannot take the entire map from you in a single move, unlike you -- and since you will always have more territories than green, you can outgenerate him and quickly whittle him to death (even with no bonuses held). The strategic mistake is leaving green with more than one territory, nevermind a bonus, I think this is a game-losing mistake. And since orange is even slower-moving than green, you need not fear him beating you either as long as you always hold the majority of the map, which you can because they're too slow. If they *weren't* so slow, then your play is probably the best you can do, and it's probably not a winning position, but since they *are* both sufficiently slow as to be unable to take the whole map in a single turn, then green leaving their final bonus was a major strategic opportunity to leverage your speed advantage into a win. I think with better play on the 41st minute, it was in fact a winning position for you, so long as you outspeed green. I could be totally wrong of course, maybe orange was secretly fast the whole time, but I think green giving up their only bonus was a major mistake which gave you an opportunity to punish him by taking the map and guaranteeing the highest troop generation for the rest of the game.
Man the more I think about it the less sure I am. Altho strategically desirable, there's a lot of tactical risk in leaving him with only 1 stack on 1 territory with your only stack right next to his. He can then smash your stack, still take most of the world and still leave you with not enough troops to reclaim and follow. Perhaps the correct tactic is to retake everything, but only leave half your stack next to his? You cant leave your whole stacked locked inside yourself, because then he can choose to not open you and still take most of the map, but splitting your stack in two may get the best of both worlds. If he doesnt hit your halfstack next to him then you're good, but even if he does you're not immediately dead to orange. Hmm. Strategically desirable but tactically so, so messy to actually accomplish
UAP is a broader, more open-minded term than UFO. It doesn't assume that something was flying or that what was seen was an object. It's something in the air and we can't explain it. Having said that, I can't explain many of them, but with a background in analyzing imagery I have seen very few I didn't feel would have some sort of reasonable explanation. But that's just my opinion.
This vid popped up in my recommended feed. This video, more than any of Mr. Strategy's others, gives me hope for my own game to watch him making decisions he would never make today. In the immortal words of Star Trek, "It's been a long road, getting from there to here." 🖖😁👍
New to the game (4 games), used European Turtle Strategy twice due to poor start placement, and both times, through a little luck, and some good neighbor behavior...2 for 2 wins! Great advice Pete!
After watching this video, I was stoked to play. I implemented techniques I saws you use and I have to agree with your chat: patience is the best strategy. But I was shocked that I was able to alliance myself into convincing other players to kill each other off. The craziest part was when I took the EU position, I was in last place for the majority of the match, but I pulled off the victory!!! was super excited. Thank you so much for showing your techniques and explaining your thought processes throughout the match.
Take this as a complement. I fall asleep really easily to your streams. I'll be watching them in bed thinking, "wow his thought process is amazing! I could watch this for hours." Next thing I know my alarm goes off.
Have any of you tried the nomadic horde strategy? You place all of your armies in one territory, you make one conquest per turn and then you shift all your armies to the newly conquered territory. You never have more than two territories on any turn, but nobody ever tries to take you out because it would be suicidal. You just keep slowly increasing the horde until you have hundreds of armies and nobody can take you out. Comments?
The only issue is that you'll quickly be out paced by players that hold entire continents. Not only that, but players can easily counter you by just lumping up the majority of their troops on one territory to scare you off from attacking them. I usually only resort to that strategy when I've been unsuccessful in taking a continent, which means I'm desperate to not be killed off
I really love your videos Pete, just got through watching your winter tournament run and it was fantastically entertaining. somewhat rekindled my interest in risk as I loved playing the board game in my youth so thanks for that 🤘
UAP's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. They changed the name some time ago. Among other things that means that it is no longer viewed as a flying object, occasionally spotted, but now recognized as multiple phenomena seen around the world by Naval personel and aviators from the private sector alike. And because there are so many it is viewed as a threat to pilots. Not because the UAP's are hostile but simply because there are so many of them, actual collisions in the air have become a viable threat. Sounds like some far fetched theroy or a joke even, but it's not. The reports of sightings are stacking up.
FYI the reason the correct term is UAP rather than UFO is just because something is airborne doesn't mean it's flying. For example under the right circumstances someone might see a frisby or odd shaped ball being thrown and might mistake it for a UFO
Green got lucky in his rolls to defeat white. Then you got lucky in your counter-attack rolls versus green so it was even. But he got another set and was able to utilize that well. It just came down to those rolls and cards at the end.
Hello Pete i just wanna say i been watching you on risk. The video you have of is confidence arrogance. Very very nice talking there about being a human being and not a nationalist, your one of a kind and thats how i think. It is to divide ppl for sure
This is how I know I’m a beginner or maybe intermediate. Lol. Cause that makes sense, but I never would have thought of that. It fights against my paranoid common sense.
really wish to clear up something there. There is NO air conditioning in Ireland, it is not part of society here we don't have it in any house by default at all only maybe in office buildings and shopping malls. so when its hot it is merciless and awful and sticky
Katchatka was an ok choice. Mexico would have been better. The 6 is open to me and now it becomes a 20 so he still retains the possibility of breaking every bonus I take.
in the first game you said he was fake botting towards the end of the first game and disconnected. whats fake botting and is that why you disconnected?
Is it possible you could make your mouse bigger and different colour to make it more noticeable. Easy to lose track of it sometimes when theres so much white on screen
I just played a fixed game on a smaller map, we got to three left with a master and a beginner. (I killed the annoying fourth) Then I slammed into the weaker beginner as much as I could, hoping that the master would finish the job. Instead he hit me, and eventually killed me first by blowing into an 82 stack of mine, while essentially ignoring the other player. What was he thinking? Just curious....
@@michaelweber7989 although I still had more troops than the weaker player. I just took out his bonuses. But you're right. Maybe I should have hit him? I mean I get the feeling he would have attacked me if I just fortified. I don't know....🧐
Green was just a donkey. (I won’t say the other word but you know what I mean) And orange was plain dumb in that game… I usually play green, but I don’t play like that, but I’ve played other players like that and it is so frustrating. When that happens to me and others refuse to help, I usually just suicide into the jerks continents and stack and then watch the game burn… Funnily enough I actually won a game doing that today. I was playing on a big map and my opponent was far too slow. Also, there was another player in the game that was also much weaker that joined with me (what orange should have done) to help take down the strongest player. Gotta love when you can get players to join up for the greater good!
Yeah sorry man. I made a conscious choice for me show to be not family friendly. I can't add a mental filter to my speech because I would lose a lot of authenticity. The price of course is the show is very much not for children.
Pete I love watching your videos. Broke my heart to see you quit this one. Imo you still had that game. I think Orange players similar to me (except I would never fake bot, especially on alliances lol) and if so, they likely were about to start a war with Green. You had broke Green pretty much every play leading up to that. He did once just to show you good faith but then quit once he saw Green was just focused on you. Assuming both Green and Orange were both playing for 1st, once you stopped breaking Green, Orange would have have had to break NA. You and Orange essentially swap - he goes to war with Green and you enter to quite/rebuild mode. Anyways, you are a legend and the only reason I got into Risk in the first place. So please dont think Im hating, just hurting and was really enjoying that game which got ended so abruptly 😂😭
It looks like you're commenting on a different video than this one. I didn't quit here. I just lost. Curious which one you actually meant to comment on
49:50 you surrender and say you get 3rd or possibly 2nd. Then go on to next game. I am definitely curious your thoughts if you happen to come across this again.
The move before it is the first move you stopped hitting Green bonus. Orange is lined up for NA break and if he does I think its game back on. If not, then you were right and prob saved yourself some time. But you are the GM not me so again hope you dont think Im criticizing, just genuinely curious!
Isn't it better to use the joker card for 10 troops whenever that's the only way to get 10, since as the game goes on and troop size increases the value of the fixed number of troops gained via cards decreases relatively?
And it's not like you're gonna get any more than 10 anyways, so might as well now? Unless I'm in the lead and don't want to scare people too much for the time being.
Jokers are valuable. They always make a set on three. And in fixed that set is usually 10 but not always so if you can afford to hold it it's a wise decision.
@@samvanderstoop179 Additionally: Notice that they play 6 player game. Nobody is going to be able to take asia as long as 6 players are arround. It is just not going to happen. So that kind of means there are only 5 continents that can be hypothetically taken without an all out war between two players But there are 6 players. So there IS going to be one player without a continet If that players believes he needs an continent to win.... he has to fight. And if he needs to fight anyhow. He might as well fight for the "best continent." So more often than not. If you sit in australie that player without a continent will pay you a visit Probably dooming both of you. That can only be stopped in three ways. 1) The continentless player settles down to living as a stack in asia for time The problem with that is that this is a decition that is entirely out of your control It is the smart thing to do. But if your opportnet is dumb you are dead. 2)You as the australian player dedice to back off give up australie and live as a stack in asia for a tiime You can do that...but in that case starting on any other continet would have been better
Jo Pete big Fan Love your vibe and started playing wen i Had COVID but i sucked so i Just keep watching your vids and i was shocked wen you sad rotfrontkämpfer i was Like hold on and i went to the App to Check that was me cant belive i played aganst you so great i am excited to wach me lose sry 4 the Bad grammer keep Up the good Work man
So fucking excited i am even freandly to you perfekt Outcome
Well i am dead
So i suck playing the Game so i wach your vids and See me losing emediedly
Albert! GG
Man this is my biggest fixed Friday video.
So glad you enjoy my work
This mans videos just showed up in my recommended and I was so entertained and informed I too have become a risk taker! Amazing content, keep it up
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I want to give this another thumbs up but it is at 69 so I will comment instead.
Same here. Just showed up. I have watched like 5 hours so far. I grew up with risk. It hurts my brain trying to think of putting 85 troops on a country on the board game
Yeah sometimes the algorithm shares some gems. I love risk but I never thought I'd be so interested to watch someone play.
Really liking the channel
same, this game is so interesting. I already play civ6 so this game is an interesting change of pace with a cool concept.
Pete, you're doing great, and if you want to improve your Fixed gameplay, consider shifting away from the mindset of killing players for cards. Oftentimes, killing a player (in Fixed) will result in a deficit in troops (unlike in prog matches where newly gained cards entirely replace or even increase overall troops), and so a smart Fixed player will weaken an opponent and entice an ally to finish off the kill so that the ally spends more troops than you (unless, of course, the opponent is absolutely so weak that the cards they hold would be more than the troops expended to get the kill, such as magenta's kill on black in the second game). This advice is more useful when the other players in the game are perhaps less experienced, and requires only simple arithmetic. In this instance, in the first game, killing White (23 troops) for four cards (maximum value of 16 troops, but usually less) usually isn't worth it, unless the kill comes from a point of power where you're expected to spend more of your troops (i.e. you're the hegemon and retained your continent despite the assault), or if killing the other player gives you a better position (i.e. a better continent); or helps solidify an alliance.
In contrast, when playing with highly skilled players in Fixed, the hegemon may be allowed to retain their power with the expectation that they are also responsible for initiating an assault and spending a greater proportion of troops in a coordinated attack against an opponent. If you're playing with random players of obviously lower skill level, this may be less important, but if you play against players who understand Fixed, this is expected knowledge for diplomatic gameplay.
There are a few advantages to taking someone out that I consider even if it does hurt your overall troop count. It can be a sneaky way to grab more territories and increase your troop generation next turn if the other players are super passive or distracted. It removes a potential aggressor. It shows the other players that you're not totally passive which can piss some people off. Or it shows that you're more active which can also scare people.
@@Chris-ls7fd Very good points, I did bring up the additional advantages of better territory, and you're right, removing a weakened player who appears like they could be a hostile opponent later on if left alive is a very valid reason to remove them while you can. And yup, showing initiative can strengthen alliances as well, just have to read the room in that case. Very good input, Chris.
I'm fine with that. I'm still really learning. There is a lot of respect inherent with the expectation that your opponents will allow you to remain the hegemon as long as you're the one knocking off the weaker players etc.
My arrogance and impatience is showing.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy It's a journey, and we're all here with you, cheering you on and learning alongside you 💪😎
This was a great comment! But yeah as far as benefits you also get all their territories, though you might not be able to defend it. But it’s also fun and you might put the fear of god in the rest of the players😄
24:30 „Green will be the next to die…“ - said the guy who gave up after green kicked his ass. 😂
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26:51 Green says "HEy I'M gonNa TakE AsiA1!" 😂
Pete! I just discovered your channel and it takes me back. We got Risk banned at my high school, because me and my friends would play it during study period and it would cause such loud arguments they had to confiscate the board game.
It can definitely make emotions run high
Lmao 42:29 we both started chewing our thumb😂
Great minds!
Another strategy that granted me a win. Thank you so much.
It may not have gone your way entirely in game 1 but your approach to strategizing always helps me improve so much, thank you!
Cheers! Yeah we're all just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks
50:00 so obviously tilted after that first game, but keeps laughing it off and keeps going. Some times you just got to go with the flow. Just subbed, enjoying your content 😊
you're doing really AMAZING with your newfound YT fame still looking through all these comments and replying to so many of them!
Ohh wow, mentioning the podcast with me was ultra sweet
Come on man, I told you that when we did it. I'm down to have more conversations like this. I'm not entirely sure how to set it up but if you are feel free to run with it.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy I am currently expanding my setup. And would probably need some ideas how to dive into certain topics. I like to have a good conversation starter, but that should do it then. 😊 I'll give it 4-8 weeks. Remind me if i am over that time.
Just happened to come across this page, I had no idea they had tournaments on risk, ive been just smoking randos for years online. Ive been missing out, so how do i go abouts getting in on these?
Join the discord. There will be announcements. I usually do promos on my show as well.
Dude you just showed up to my UA-cam page and I downloaded risk and played for the first time in twenty years! Never thought I’d watch someone play risk for 2 hours lol
Hope you enjoyed!
Randomly came across a recommended video the other day. It was about 2 hrs long, I sat there learning and seeing what this game was about. Can become very intense. I'm intrigued & subscribing
Welcome Jake. Let's see how deep the rabbit hole goes!
09:30 Oh boy! Red trying to take Asia early game with 6 players left... this gonna be a fun fixed game.
Edit: 44:52 At this point in the game I think I would either do the same attacks as u did but stack up on greenland. Or, take a gamble and take a useless 1 in Asia (or skip a card even) and at the same time say to orange to attack green through the alliances. If orange is playing for first place he has to attack but sometimes they do nothing and accept 2nd place which is probably what orange would do by the way he played
Everyone has their timing point. It's integrated into the design of the game that turtling is effective more often than not.
You attacked with a 25 against a 26 and won with 6 left over. What the heck are those rolls??? 01:23:55 well played though haha
Odds in risk skew in favour of the attacker.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy Oh for sure! Just I have seen too many 9v3 attacks lose, too many 7v2 (or even 1) lose, and too many 14v5 lose lol. Just in 7 games of playing the couple days since I started playing this version of the game. lol
I mean some games you just low roll, but of course, you are more likely to notice all the low rolls, and less likely to notice all the high rolls. But usually, with bigger fights, like 250vs250, the attacker keeps about 20-40% of starting stack it seems.
Yo, I have a podcast, and I would love to have you on, ever since I found your channel I have been binge watching every vid haha. I'm still pretty small, but it's a free to speak and think podcast where all opinions are valid, highlighting the unique perspectives and value of every individual. Through a type of open discussion on any topic the unique guest picks each week. Curious if you might have the time one day maybe before the end of the year? We can chat more on discord if you want!
I just don't want to self-promote on your channel without your permission of course.
I love how green had Australia and the chat was warning that they would win and they ended up winning XD.
It's such a meme.
And yet every time I try to play the Australia position I get suicided into.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy I think that if there was a sea border between Madagascar and Australia it would help a lot to stop turtles from being able to block with one country
@@hi_im_loe that would make Australia really weak then no?
i always felt like australia is a noob trap. like, it seems so good, 5 troops in the early game, when everyone else is only getting 3-4, only needs to defend on one front. but then you get stuck down there. only way out is through asia, which is the most difficult continent to defend on 4 fronts and nobody is gonna let you hold it, if they see you trying to do that, they will break you.
it's like. . one of the Classic Blunders, "never get involved in a land war in Asia"
In Germany there's a soccer club named 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Their fans have a community and the most extreme fans, the hardest of the hardest, call themselves 'Rotfront'.
So 'Rotfrontkämpfer' translates to 'fighters of the red front troops'.
I thought it sounded like a war thing, not a sports thing!
I love your videos man. Online risk is so much harder than IRL. I can't social engineer an online game.
I have been trying to promote VC games do that becomes possible somewhat.
Hey Pete, at 54:20 the japanese friend Teyene Tuoyo sounds like "Te llené tu hoyo", or I filled your hole. Like a Ben Dover or Joe Momma joke in spanish. Great video anyway!
41:46 I think here you make a serious strategic mistake (and in prior moves). Since you outspeed green (and green definitely outspeeds orange, nevermind orange's complete passivity), what you should have been doing before this, and should absolutely do right now when green concedes their only bonus, is to leverage your speed by always taking every open 1-territory on every turn. Take Africa, take Australia, but also take all of asia and all other singles, and leave green with only 1 territory on every turn.
The reason you do this is because you can outspeed green and always have more territories than them -- they're sufficiently slow that they cannot take the entire map from you in a single move, unlike you -- and since you will always have more territories than green, you can outgenerate him and quickly whittle him to death (even with no bonuses held). The strategic mistake is leaving green with more than one territory, nevermind a bonus, I think this is a game-losing mistake. And since orange is even slower-moving than green, you need not fear him beating you either as long as you always hold the majority of the map, which you can because they're too slow.
If they *weren't* so slow, then your play is probably the best you can do, and it's probably not a winning position, but since they *are* both sufficiently slow as to be unable to take the whole map in a single turn, then green leaving their final bonus was a major strategic opportunity to leverage your speed advantage into a win. I think with better play on the 41st minute, it was in fact a winning position for you, so long as you outspeed green.
I could be totally wrong of course, maybe orange was secretly fast the whole time, but I think green giving up their only bonus was a major mistake which gave you an opportunity to punish him by taking the map and guaranteeing the highest troop generation for the rest of the game.
Man the more I think about it the less sure I am. Altho strategically desirable, there's a lot of tactical risk in leaving him with only 1 stack on 1 territory with your only stack right next to his. He can then smash your stack, still take most of the world and still leave you with not enough troops to reclaim and follow. Perhaps the correct tactic is to retake everything, but only leave half your stack next to his? You cant leave your whole stacked locked inside yourself, because then he can choose to not open you and still take most of the map, but splitting your stack in two may get the best of both worlds. If he doesnt hit your halfstack next to him then you're good, but even if he does you're not immediately dead to orange. Hmm. Strategically desirable but tactically so, so messy to actually accomplish
UAP is a broader, more open-minded term than UFO. It doesn't assume that something was flying or that what was seen was an object. It's something in the air and we can't explain it.
Having said that, I can't explain many of them, but with a background in analyzing imagery I have seen very few I didn't feel would have some sort of reasonable explanation. But that's just my opinion.
Aliens!
32:15 would love to watch you play phasmophobia but I don't think your regular viewers would like it.
I don't know what that is.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy it's a game where you look for clues to figuire out what kind of ghost is haunting a house with out said ghost killing you.
Guess the yt algo really wants me to play risk again or cheer you on or both, but I’m not complaining. Love your content man keep doing your thing
This vid popped up in my recommended feed. This video, more than any of Mr. Strategy's others, gives me hope for my own game to watch him making decisions he would never make today. In the immortal words of Star Trek, "It's been a long road, getting from there to here." 🖖😁👍
New to the game (4 games), used European Turtle Strategy twice due to poor start placement, and both times, through a little luck, and some good neighbor behavior...2 for 2 wins! Great advice Pete!
After watching this video, I was stoked to play. I implemented techniques I saws you use and I have to agree with your chat: patience is the best strategy. But I was shocked that I was able to alliance myself into convincing other players to kill each other off. The craziest part was when I took the EU position, I was in last place for the majority of the match, but I pulled off the victory!!! was super excited. Thank you so much for showing your techniques and explaining your thought processes throughout the match.
Amazing when that happens eh?
What is your screen setup? You seem to look upwards to read comments?
You can see it in the content creators collabo short. I have a monitor to the left and two tv's one on top of the other in front
Each new video I watch on this channel gets better and better :)
I struggle with Europe and Asia massively. Nice to see how it's properly done.
Watch champs vid on the Asian turtle Strat.
Take this as a complement. I fall asleep really easily to your streams. I'll be watching them in bed thinking, "wow his thought process is amazing! I could watch this for hours." Next thing I know my alarm goes off.
It's much more than a compliment ❤️
Keep pumping out content Pete, we’ll eat it up!
I'm pumping!
Just like prom night.
Have any of you tried the nomadic horde strategy? You place all of your armies in one territory, you make one conquest per turn and then you shift all your armies to the newly conquered territory. You never have more than two territories on any turn, but nobody ever tries to take you out because it would be suicidal. You just keep slowly increasing the horde until you have hundreds of armies and nobody can take you out. Comments?
The only issue is that you'll quickly be out paced by players that hold entire continents. Not only that, but players can easily counter you by just lumping up the majority of their troops on one territory to scare you off from attacking them.
I usually only resort to that strategy when I've been unsuccessful in taking a continent, which means I'm desperate to not be killed off
i've also picked up Risk again after having your videos in my recommendations, even paid to unlock unlimited games cause I ran out of free credits xD
I almost feel like very new players are the only ones that actually play classic fixed.
Classic prog with bliz is where it’s at
Yeah man that’s what’s good
No way. There are so many really talented people who only play classic fixed.
It's something like 2/3rds of all total risk games played still.
Oh I didn’t realize that. I thought that most better players play progressive ffa, at least that’s what I grinded all the way to gm.
Classic fixed is still my favorite
I downloaded Risk bc of this channel. I’m getting my head kicked in every go, but still fun
“feels like they’res more to that than you finished typing” Kinda sums up my whol internet experience
You took a pretty bold position when you stated older folks will probably die from the heat if Covid did not already get them. 9:18 unscript
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I really love your videos Pete, just got through watching your winter tournament run and it was fantastically entertaining. somewhat rekindled my interest in risk as I loved playing the board game in my youth so thanks for that 🤘
UAP's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. They changed the name some time ago. Among other things that means that it is no longer viewed as a flying object, occasionally spotted, but now recognized as multiple phenomena seen around the world by Naval personel and aviators from the private sector alike. And because there are so many it is viewed as a threat to pilots. Not because the UAP's are hostile but simply because there are so many of them, actual collisions in the air have become a viable threat. Sounds like some far fetched theroy or a joke even, but it's not. The reports of sightings are stacking up.
4:35 - What does it mean to be the fish?
When you are worth being eaten
Love watching you play; learn so much from it :)
Problem with Australia start, is it's too hard to meaningfully break out, and easy to be boxed in. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
I like hanging out nearby Australia and taking it after two other players fight over it
Risk is one of my favorite games. And it seems crazy to me that my strats and my family strats are exactly the same as the grandmasters lol
Maybe you guys are just good
Pete I've been using your NA strategy a lot lately. It's helping a lot.
I think it's the 'best' position for those settings all thing being equal.
I have no idea why I so enjoy your videos more than Netflix
Me neither but that is high praise!
FYI the reason the correct term is UAP rather than UFO is just because something is airborne doesn't mean it's flying. For example under the right circumstances someone might see a frisby or odd shaped ball being thrown and might mistake it for a UFO
The "African Victory" in that 2nd game deserves legit respect.
Green got lucky in his rolls to defeat white. Then you got lucky in your counter-attack rolls versus green so it was even. But he got another set and was able to utilize that well. It just came down to those rolls and cards at the end.
There are 2 types of allies: 1st-game Green and 2nd-game White
I want the one that kills everyone for me and then hands me the game.
White was mvp
Just found you channel and I love the content
A classic from the old Peteman.
Heya! Nice! ^^
But how do you make it that every player has another symbol for the troops? Like some have triangles and circles in this vid 👀
Colourblind mode.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy Ahh ty! Just gotten into Risk on the PC, love your videos!
Hello Pete i just wanna say i been watching you on risk. The video you have of is confidence arrogance. Very very nice talking there about being a human being and not a nationalist, your one of a kind and thats how i think. It is to divide ppl for sure
Thanks man. When I get back onto the podcast I'm going to dig into more of those ideas.
What’s the benefit of leaving the bulk of your troops in the center of Europe rather than on one of the borders?
The threat guard. When you get broken, you don't lose a stack, just future troops, and you have an open line to attack the person who broke you back.
This is how I know I’m a beginner or maybe intermediate. Lol. Cause that makes sense, but I never would have thought of that. It fights against my paranoid common sense.
really wish to clear up something there. There is NO air conditioning in Ireland, it is not part of society here we don't have it in any house by default at all only maybe in office buildings and shopping malls. so when its hot it is merciless and awful and sticky
Where should green have put his 17 at the end of the 2nd game? 1:25:28
Katchatka was an ok choice. Mexico would have been better. The 6 is open to me and now it becomes a 20 so he still retains the possibility of breaking every bonus I take.
Kind of new to this. I played the board game many times but never online. What is the website where I can play?
You can dl the game on steam and mobile
my friends get so mad at me when i turtle and just get the free win from chilling out 😹
Gotta try the European wax strategy! Wipes everything clean
Orange played so passively, otherwise he could win there!
I just started playing. And never get people who play like this. They always bum rush every 1 spot available to cancel the persons bonus
Hey, why do you keep the big stack in the middle of Europe and not divide it to its frontiers?
That's the European Turtle Strategy!
you should make a tips and tricks video where you go over some maybe more advanced risk tips
Also how come when I see youtubes click on the character is loads their profile but nothing happens when I do it
in the first game you said he was fake botting towards the end of the first game and disconnected. whats fake botting and is that why you disconnected?
Is it possible you could make your mouse bigger and different colour to make it more noticeable. Easy to lose track of it sometimes when theres so much white on screen
I'm not sure. How would one do that?
@@TheKillPeteStrategy go to mouse settings on ur computer then additional settings then u can change ur cursor to anything
How is he attacking so fast? Is there like a shortcut i dont know? Also, Great vid
Turn of camera animation and use mouse and enter key to go the fastest.
The dev's have decided to handicap new players for some reason.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy thx helped alot
excited for FPOT.....younthe man
No cards in the deciding moment in the 2nd game and you clap them 🙏🏻
Hey , 1 quick question , is this vs AI or players I saw him specifing the ai difficulty and I don t know the game.
When you get famous I can say that I got the to meet the legend in his prime time at 6k subs
Why would you assume that I'm going to be famous lol!
bro over here playing games while looking like the chad meme, what an absolute unit
I just played a fixed game on a smaller map, we got to three left with a master and a beginner. (I killed the annoying fourth) Then I slammed into the weaker beginner as much as I could, hoping that the master would finish the job. Instead he hit me, and eventually killed me first by blowing into an 82 stack of mine, while essentially ignoring the other player. What was he thinking? Just curious....
Why wouldn't he? You weaken yourself by going after the weaker player. Maybe you had more cards than the other general too
@@michaelweber7989 I'll take note of that. Thank you.
@@michaelweber7989 although I still had more troops than the weaker player. I just took out his bonuses. But you're right. Maybe I should have hit him? I mean I get the feeling he would have attacked me if I just fortified. I don't know....🧐
@@hustler3of4culture3 lol who really knows. There is a lot of luck involved. Good luck on the next war
@@michaelweber7989 thanks for taking the time
The good thing about your videos are we don’t know if you are gonna win, suspense.
what key on your keyboard are you using to help make your attack phase so fast.
Click enter enter.
Turn off camera animations
My first fixed FRIDAY!!!!!!
How do you know if someone is/ becomes a bot? is there a symbol im missing?
you can click on their icon and it says offline
Green was just a donkey. (I won’t say the other word but you know what I mean) And orange was plain dumb in that game… I usually play green, but I don’t play like that, but I’ve played other players like that and it is so frustrating. When that happens to me and others refuse to help, I usually just suicide into the jerks continents and stack and then watch the game burn… Funnily enough I actually won a game doing that today. I was playing on a big map and my opponent was far too slow. Also, there was another player in the game that was also much weaker that joined with me (what orange should have done) to help take down the strongest player. Gotta love when you can get players to join up for the greater good!
The first green that is. The 2nd green was smart.
Every once in a while I play like a donkey too.
Where can I sign up for tournaments?
Join the discord. Sign ups will be posted in a couple weeks.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy thank you.
I'm here to ask if that's a Farside coffee mug. 👀👀
Sure is!
This channel got me into playing risk again. But I can’t watch your videos with my kids in the room because “holy fucking shit it’s Pete”.
Yeah sorry man. I made a conscious choice for me show to be not family friendly.
I can't add a mental filter to my speech because I would lose a lot of authenticity. The price of course is the show is very much not for children.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy you are good lol be you bro. Still love the channel 👍
Pete are u monetized i get ads without the yellow blips on the red line
I am.
I don't have any control over the types of ads UA-cam is showing you.
UAP: Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
German Translation rotfrontkämpfer
Red Front figther
that rage quit lol
Lol
@@TheKillPeteStrategy i would have too fyi :D
Pete I love watching your videos. Broke my heart to see you quit this one.
Imo you still had that game. I think Orange players similar to me (except I would never fake bot, especially on alliances lol) and if so, they likely were about to start a war with Green.
You had broke Green pretty much every play leading up to that. He did once just to show you good faith but then quit once he saw Green was just focused on you.
Assuming both Green and Orange were both playing for 1st, once you stopped breaking Green, Orange would have have had to break NA.
You and Orange essentially swap - he goes to war with Green and you enter to quite/rebuild mode.
Anyways, you are a legend and the only reason I got into Risk in the first place. So please dont think Im hating, just hurting and was really enjoying that game which got ended so abruptly 😂😭
It looks like you're commenting on a different video than this one.
I didn't quit here. I just lost. Curious which one you actually meant to comment on
49:50 you surrender and say you get 3rd or possibly 2nd. Then go on to next game.
I am definitely curious your thoughts if you happen to come across this again.
The move before it is the first move you stopped hitting Green bonus. Orange is lined up for NA break and if he does I think its game back on. If not, then you were right and prob saved yourself some time. But you are the GM not me so again hope you dont think Im criticizing, just genuinely curious!
It seems to me that this game needs some type of come back. Too frequently it just seems to stall in a cold war.
I think the problem is he's playing at a lvl that everyone knows what they are doing, noone wants to just wave their metaprotocol balls around.
like real life.
Not your best performance but still top tier dude
Isn't it better to use the joker card for 10 troops whenever that's the only way to get 10, since as the game goes on and troop size increases the value of the fixed number of troops gained via cards decreases relatively?
And it's not like you're gonna get any more than 10 anyways, so might as well now? Unless I'm in the lead and don't want to scare people too much for the time being.
Or when I have less than 5 cards and I can afford to wait to see if I get a 10 match.
Jokers are valuable. They always make a set on three. And in fixed that set is usually 10 but not always so if you can afford to hold it it's a wise decision.
Britain is massive on this map, it looks like the countries are scaled up if their queen is dead
watching these games it appears that the attacker has a massive advantage
they mightve just been lucky in rolls
Why do you usually take ALMOST the entire continent? Leaving only one area instead of taking the entire thing
Why is the Australian start bad?
Because everyone knows it's good so they fight over it, which makes it bad.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy Ah, game theory.
@@samvanderstoop179
Additionally:
Notice that they play 6 player game.
Nobody is going to be able to take asia as long as 6 players are arround. It is just not going to happen.
So that kind of means there are only 5 continents that can be hypothetically taken without an all out war between two players
But there are 6 players.
So there IS going to be one player without a continet
If that players believes he needs an continent to win.... he has to fight.
And if he needs to fight anyhow. He might as well fight for the "best continent."
So more often than not. If you sit in australie that player without a continent will pay you a visit
Probably dooming both of you.
That can only be stopped in three ways.
1) The continentless player settles down to living as a stack in asia for time
The problem with that is that this is a decition that is entirely out of your control
It is the smart thing to do. But if your opportnet is dumb you are dead.
2)You as the australian player dedice to back off give up australie and live as a stack in asia for a tiime
You can do that...but in that case starting on any other continet would have been better
“Kicked the bucket from COVID”, wait what?
The skill in this game u make it look ez but only the master can lol
🙏 thank you
What does fish mean?
When you eat a player for his cards
Oof, what a see-saw ending.
The drama!
rotfrontkampfer means redfront fighter
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What does "fake botting" refer to?
A player disconnecting and reconnecting so that the other players hit eachother.
@@TheKillPeteStrategy Wow, that is such a dirty tactic. No wonder you didn't sound fond of it.