Risk
Slow but strategic game
26/10/2021 16:31
It is fun and interesting while it is your turn but can feel too slow for the rest of the time. We played 4 people - 2 adults and 2 kids (9 years old and 11 years old). For the first time we decided to play without missions and it was a big mistake. Missions make the game more interesting and easier to finish. We played 4,5 h and then we just agreed that we will finish at a certain time and for us it was easy to understand who is the winner.
Many times during the game we understood that we are not following the rules and although rules state that having fun and learning by doing or something similar is more important, I would like rules to be easier. Because I don't know when will be the next time we will play it. 4,5h is a long time.
During the game we had to google some rules because it was not clear how to proceed. For example, every time you change cards for extra figures the number of figures increase. It has a nice feature (didn't understand it at the beginning) that you can store them under the board and it shows how far you are but what to do when there is no cards left? We googled and decided to use them again but then there was no indicator for the reached level for a while.
Also at some point is starts to get quite lengthly to roll those dice if both armies are big ones. We increases stakes by multiplying by some number. For example 10 vs 5 and so on.
We had also a 2 year old toddler running around (well they don't sleep for 4,5 h) and that is quite a challenge. We allowed him to roll dices from time to time but many times we were close to disaster.
However, those 2 children we played with repeated the game the same evening by themselves. A lot of laughter was heard. At least they apparently enjoyed it.
It is not a problem to have it in a language that you haven't mastered it. Apart from the rules of course. I could follow the game with my basic Swedish understanding. And rules was explained by someone else but internet has answers to most of the questions.
elvita101
Haninge , Švédsko
Ålder: 31
Kön: Kvinna