And so it ended. The Middle East attacked Afghanistan, and, without so much as a misplaced grain of uranium, the world was conquered by red, which was me. I was surprised, actually. We knew it was a good name at the end, because the balance of power was tilted heavily in three different ways over the course of the last few weeks. Richard had it handily for a little bit, and then we trimmed down his guys and Urn was all over the place, yellow as far as the eye could see. Then Urn and Richard took Mike most of the way out, I finished him and got his cards, and that's when the tide turned. Chain reaction, got Richard's cards, pushed Urn back into Asia, he put up a huge fight down in Australia, and then it finally ended in that hotbed of political and military turmoil, the Middle East. Everybody played well.
We're going to play Risk again, but this time, we're moving to our new map, the Puget Sound! Yes yes. I thought it would be fun to try the same game on a different map, and here we are in one of the more geographically interesting areas of our country. It all came together. I used the long weekend we had for Thanksgiving to draw up a map from a little internet research. It's divided by county instead of continent like the original map, and Kirsten drew some awesome totem animals. Instead of a tank, a soldier, and a horse, this game has a salmon, a deer, and a seahawk, all rendered in the American Indian style that has almost turned into northwestern kitsch. Have a look:
This time, we're probably going to have all six armies used. We'll see whether we can keep this up without cutting into anyone's productivity too much. And if you're ever in Redmond...
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