Risk: Revised re-released for elegant eurogamers

Seems Risk 2008 has been re-released in 'elegant clothing' with cubes as Risk:Onyx edition to attract the BGG eurogamer ;-p

Ugh, cubes. Granted the pointy arrows in Risk Revised are pretty goofy looking. That board is pretty cool though.

Didn't Black Ops almost look like this?

OH HAY! It is BLACK OPS, but with a nicer production! Art and pieces are the same, box is different but nicer.

Hardee har, I just sold my BLACK OPS as part of OPERATION:360. It more than paid from my 360. My, how the cookie crumbles.

We all know that unless combat is resolved by bidding for each area or by replacing the dice with dicecards, RISK will never be for elegant eurogamers.

Michael Barnes wrote:

OH HAY! It is BLACK OPS, but with a nicer production! Art and pieces are the same, box is different but nicer.

Hardee har, I just sold my BLACK OPS as part of OPERATION:360. It more than paid from my 360. My, how the cookie crumbles.

Yep. That's it. A bit sad I didn't sell mine to pillage some unsuspecting collector, but it was free, so who cares...

The guy that bought mine was thrilled to pieces, he's a RISK collector. So I'm sure it's still worthwhile to him.

I'll get one of these sets myself...probably after Christmas when they're like 75% off. It's inevitable.

Uh, didn't Risk originally come with cubes?

the barefoot killer wrote:

Uh, didn't Risk originally come with cubes?

We don't remember such heresy.

Lilred wrote:

We all know that unless combat is resolved by bidding for each area or by replacing the dice with dicecards, RISK will never be for elegant eurogamers.

Their's an upgrade in production already called Riskless which apparently address all those unbalanced issues.

I don't understand the decision to go back to cubes. I thought the arrows were awesome. They reminded me of those old news reels where the arrows stretch out from Berlin to engulf Europe. If you're making a nicely-produced special edition, why make the one thing that players constantly have to move and touch even shittier?

Well - some geek seemingly (sadly) knows the Risk board too well and has noticed that Europe and North America are no longer connected, with the Greenland-Iceland link missing.
This would seem to unbalance/change the original Risk game, but could anyone who owns or has played BlackOps or Revised Risk let us know if this link is also missing and, if so, is it required for improvement or for the game to actually work ?

Hell, I looked at the pic before reading your comment and that was the first thing I noticed too. Guess I played too much of that game as a kid... It does seem like it would make N America a whole lot more powerful though, now with only two points to defend.

ufe wrote:

Hell, I looked at the pic before reading your comment and that was the first thing I noticed too. Guess I played too much of that game as a kid...

Fair point - a lot of you guys a few years younger than me probably did play Risk and a few other 'staple diet' games to death in the 80s/90s.

Regular Risk Revised had the standard connection between N. America and Europe. If that picture is acurate, then taking the connection out would dramatically change things. Europe becomes more defensible, and N. America become dramatiaclly easier to hold.

As far as the rest of the game, I tried Risk revised and didn't really care for it at all. I'd rather play normal risk or 2210 (the best iteration of the game in my opinion)

My first guess would be that no link between N.America and Europe is an error. North America is already easy enough to hold.