![]() While five soldiers and one horse have the same value, it feels a lot different to go up against a horse. While your opponents may have the soldiers to beat them rather easily, most won't because of the intimidation factor. ![]() In newer editions where a horse or cannon represents 5 or 10 units, you can place one at each of your chokepoints or borders. Bears Are Bad News: One of the Risk: Legacy factions is the Enclave of the Bear, whose soldiers ride on bears.As awesome as it is to have cannons intimidatingly guarding your borders, get ready to waste time exchanging them for a horse and 3 men as you take losses, until you get fed up and just stick to using regular infantry for everything. Newer editions of original Risk have cavalry figurines to represent five units, and cannon figurines to represent ten (as opposed to an infantryman being one unit).Even if you manage to get a firm hold on Asia, expect the other players to start conspiring with one other to launch multi-pronged attacks before your large numbers of reinforcements would become unstoppable. You can get attacked from no less than four of the other five continents represented, with South America being the only one without access. Lose even one lousy territory and kiss your continental bonus goodbye until you can re-take it. Problem is that it has many territories you need to take and can be attacked on a number of different fronts from very many provinces. If you can control it long enough to actually start getting units from it, you can steamroll the other players in numbers. ![]() Even on modern boards, the Americas will be shifted northeasterly, shrinking the Atlantic and leaving the south end of South America level with the south end of Africa, all to reduce unused ocean space, while having Europe proportionately larger so as to be able to accommodate army pieces in territories that are otherwise smaller than on other continents.
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