Sigh...

Well... the good news is some of the risk variants over the last few years haven't been that bad. 2210 and Godstorm were both quite decent, Legacy (although theres nothing to transfer from it's concept) was a pretty wild experience, the LOTR edition wasn't great but atleast had some thematic traits.

I'm still apprehensive of this. But I can be happy that it's not a shallow version of Monopoly. Risk fits the franchise better in some ways... although there are considerably better games to tack the theme onto.

Sonneillon, you know by now that I'm hoi polloi on this kind of stuff.

Are you familiar with Star Wars Original Trilogy Risk? For me, the best part of that is the working of the three factions: Imperial, Rebel, and "Hutt". The Imperial players win by destroying the Rebel players. The Rebel players win by capturing the "Emperor" token hiding in one of the fortresses. The Hutt player wins by controlling a certain number of "resource" planets. It's fun; it feels factionally specific. I doubt we'll have that in this version of Risk, but we might get something similar in terms of factional advantages. At least through the cards.

I suppose it would be hoping too much to expect an attachment for Outland, like they do for the Moon in Risk 2210. But one can dream.


EDIT: And the true beauty of this? A board map. A map. If the rules are too simple for you, you can adapt rules from the more enjoyable war games.

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Risk has a justified nostalgia factor and many of it's core flaws come with the traditional edition. I don't mind this so much and admittedly I'm curious to see what sort of twists they throw on it. Hopefully they keep the play time down on this one, thats sort of a core feature these days. Unfortunately the two faction could make things unusual with a WoW Theme. They have at the least 5 to 6 player groups to fit in what is a 2 faction theme. I wonder if they will add in playable Scourge, Twilight's Hammer and the Legion to beef things up. I suppose they could break off the Nightelves from the Alliance and the Bloodelves/Forsaken from the Horde, but at that point Warcraft 3 would have been an easier port and period for this.

That being said, a WoW battleground based version of BattleLore would have been incredible.

Hm... I'm interested on this, though I suspect it will be all WoW-style, latest Cata/MoP style, which I don't like as much as the previous ones.

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Metzen: They are one of the ancient races of Northrend that we haven't spoken of before... because we hadn't made them up before. (laughter)

~Main: Expansion theorycrafting, Expansions list, The Age of Nightmare, Empire of the Tides (coming soon)~
~Fan ficton: Anachronos Journey: The Timeless Heir~ ~Geography of continents series: Old Kalimdor (original), Pandaria~
~Locations as zones series: Azjol-Nerub, Barrow Deeps, Zul'Aman, Demon Hunter zone, Caverns of Time~

Are you talking about artwork? Card flavors?

Or do you mean the world map? Yeah, it does stink that they're probably going to use the recently-changed world map instead of the world that's existed for the bulk of Azeroth World's history. It might make things a little difficult for customized historical scenarios.

But the world's geography hasn't changed that much; it still has the basic semblance of the old map. So long as they add enough spaces in the Eastern Continent, I'll be able to recreate any of the early Orc-Human Wars... and that actually will probably be an easy way to customize a shorter gametime.

But with the post-Cataclysm world map? This is GUARANTEED to be the version of the Alliance-Horde War that looks most like a world war, instead of a handful of heroes going on quests while Jaina tries to get Thrall to discipline Garrosh.

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No, just the general style of units and everything. You know, metal buildings for orcs, Northrend buildings for humans... They're cool, but I prefer the classic ones, I like them more.

I would really love this if it was Second War themed or something, with just Eastern Kingdoms and Draenor. Less places and less races let you show them better. I can't wait to see how draenei and worgen aren't even mentioned or how all races are sidekicks to humans and orcs xDDD .

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Metzen: They are one of the ancient races of Northrend that we haven't spoken of before... because we hadn't made them up before. (laughter)

~Main: Expansion theorycrafting, Expansions list, The Age of Nightmare, Empire of the Tides (coming soon)~
~Fan ficton: Anachronos Journey: The Timeless Heir~ ~Geography of continents series: Old Kalimdor (original), Pandaria~
~Locations as zones series: Azjol-Nerub, Barrow Deeps, Zul'Aman, Demon Hunter zone, Caverns of Time~

What the fuck are "330 customizable pieces." thats just... weird...

Infantry, cavalry, and artillery are the standard universal representation of units. There's only 300 pieces (among 5 players) in a standard modern version of the game. So it's safe to assume that the game is 5 players so there's 5 armies. That leaves 30 additional units representing... what 15? 20?

It does say "Warcraft" risk rather than WoW...

Customizable units is the really strange thing...

I'd bet money that it's supposed to say "customized units".

As in: "They look like Warcraft people instead of Napoleonic infantry."

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Guys, that article is wrong. We're not publishing Warcraft risk.


We're publishing STARCRAFT risk. If you'd like I can rename and move the topic.

Are there no videos if the panel available?

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That one website is pretty much the only source of information that I could find. All the other sites link to that one.

Well they're wrong. I'll ask Licensing and see if they got footage of the event.

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Would be awesome. Heard in the other thread that Tyrande is going to get some love which makes me wonder what else we missed out on.

I so want WarCraft Risk

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Oh. Well, I knew about Starcraft Risk. I just thought... and then... oh well.


Rename, move, lock, ignore, delete, whatever. Whatever works. It'll probably die on its own. Thanks for the clarification.



EDIT: Blizzard has until November to put PS1's Warcraft II: The Dark Saga on Playstation Network. After that, I'm buying it secondhand for a birthday, and they won't see a cent of it. Thinking there'd be a Warcraft Risk, struck my strategy game nostalgia nerves.

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