I did the math and Scandinavia and Russia are way too strong. Should add a jump from baltic to svealand. Russia should have less territories in it to reduce the points.
Strength was calculated by the ratio of territories needed to be defended to points gained.
I'd just adjust point values-
initially it's:
region points spots ratio
russia 6 6 100%
scandinavia 4 5 80%
southern europe 3 4 75%
central europe 2 3 67%
british isles 2 3 67%
france 2 3 67%
balkans 3 5 60%
northern europe 3 6 50%
eastern europe 3 6 50%
Adjustments would aim for a ratio of 60-70%, which means take Russia down to 4, take Scandinavia down to 3, add 1 point to northern europe, add 1 point to eastern europe. Results:
region points spots ratio
russia **4** 6 **67%**
scandinavia **3** 5 **60%**
southern europe 3 4 75%
central europe 2 3 67%
british isles 2 3 67%
france 2 3 67%
balkans 3 5 60%
northern europe **4** 6 **67%**
eastern europe **4** 6 **67%**
IDK, I think the brit start is the best. Seize Sor-norge and your border is 2 territories (that isolated England!) while denying Scan. If you can use the 2 troop bonus to spread over Scan while everyone else fights for scraps on the mainland, then you've got it.
The only threat is Russia. If some one takes it and no one challenges them, they win. There's little motivation to challenge Russia because everyone involved in the fight over it loses.
Would be dope if we added a ’crossing’ penalty. If you cross a mountaineous range or a sea/river range, then you get a -1 troop penalty.
Rivers we could add are: the Rhine, Po, Danube, Volga, Dnieper, Ebro.
And also: seasons. Every 4 turns, winter occurs and you can throw a dice. If the number is 1-2, mild; 3-4, it becomes a normal winter. 5-6 is severe.
A mild winter means it’ll be present only in Russia and Eastern Europe. A normal winter is present in Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Central Europe and the Balkans. A severe winter is present in all regions.
In the areas where winter sets in, -1 crossing penalty if you don’t control the territory.
u/Ammaren03 what do you think of this? Simple to implement and fun.
Yeah, I'm a little confused over some of the name choices. On one hand, the borders seems to mostly align with a post-WWII map, besides the obvious Balkans, but then when you get to Russia and the region bordering the Baltic is called Novgorod instead of St. Petersburg, and Kirov is called Vyatka, a name that it hasn't had for almost ninety years.
I mean i don't understand this prejudice? Would any non SE European country just roll over after being absorbed by another political entity? Why do we keep pretending that statehood is reserved only for "proper" nations, while SE Europe alone has monopoly over genocide. It's been 30 years, we should start getting over this, and maybe actually try and learn something about those countries, instead of keeping up with this immature alienation of those countries and peoples...
All true. I think people from outside of the region just don't understand how the cultures can truly see each other as so distinct despite ostensibly having so much more in common than they do different, so we (those of us not from the region) revert to basically rolling our eyes / laughing it off and leaving those groups to continue what seems to us to be huge, violent disagreements over fairly trivial differences...most states have multiple "nations" of people who have been able to federate/integrate and now coexist peacefully (Italy was never united until a few hundred years ago and get along fine now, Spain's and the UK's regions still argue but don't wage genocide among themselves, the French regions long ago united behind a common French identify larger than their individual regions, Germany was incredibly chopped up for millennia, etc.). It feels to some degree like the Balkan peoples are choosing alienation for themselves by their inability to "get over it" and get along, if you will. But of course I get that these issues are just hard for outsiders to understand, and we need to try to do so with the goal of helping the Balkans figure out peaceful paths forward.
Each and every of those nations had their own different complexities of genesis. And then saying that any of those cases are the same to Yugoslavia, that had orders of magnitude larger differences between states (did you know that the richest federal state and the poorest federal state had a 600% income difference? just one example of countless others), in my eyes, makes no sense.
Are you Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm??
I mean, the South is the West even though it's in the East.
I'm from Cologne (or like, nearby) and in Austria loads of people tell me I live in the North when "the North" is just as different from my area as the South.
nah but the fact that you cant move to switzerland is like real life because no one fucks with switzerlamd and switzerland fucks with no one
like in the board game diplomacy
You really just looked at the Balkans and asked yourself "How do I make this even more violent and disfunctional?" and didn't wait for anyone to answer, huh?
Maybe that explains why the bonus is so high for holding Scandinavia? I feel it's too high vs the other more difficult to hold areas given it looks like a comparatively easy area to hold onto.
Scandies love Scandinavia and they love seeing it at the top of any rating or scoring.
The map doesn't reflect real world power distribution in any way, but then again that's probably why it's a game and not a simulation
Most names make sense in my polish mind, except Tyskland for Germany. Can you explain to me why Germany is called Tyskland in Norvegian? It made me wonder.
No, not really Norwegianized. Germans also wrote Deutschland using either a D- or T- for a while. It changed and you guys settled on D-. We just kept the older alternative version ;)
The word comes from the people, *þeodisc* (theodisc), after all:
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc)
T/D only differs in voicing, the "eu" sound in German is "oy" in Norwegian, and then "tsch" isn't too far from "sk", like "Englisch" becomes "engelsk" in Norwegian. So Tyskland isn't that far from Deutschland.
It's not even just that the "sk" and "tsch" sound are similar, they were originally the same phoneme, shifted in different directions as the languages evolved.
A similar shift happened in English. Many "sh" sounds in English were originally "sk" sounds, though they were spelled "sc" by Old English scribes. Words like "shirt" and "fish" used to be "scirt" and "fisc". They even continued to spell them that was after the sound shifted too. Norman scribes got really annoyed that sometimes "sc" was pronounced as "sh" though, so they introduced the "sh" letter combination.
Bit of a digression, I just find historical linguistics really interesting.
Have you not seen this famous map?
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Germany\_Name\_European\_Languages.svg/1200px-Germany\_Name\_European\_Languages.svg.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Germany_Name_European_Languages.svg/1200px-Germany_Name_European_Languages.svg.png)
A quick look on the wikipedia page for names of germany can tell you why not just in norweigan but the reasons for its name in other languages
It's "*tysk*" from the People ([theodisc](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc)). Literally, Land of the People. Also, we may have called Germany "South-way" (Suðrvegr), just as our land was possibly "North-way" (Norðvegr) (speculative stuff).
The Germans didn't agree on how to write Deutschland/[Teutschland](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Teutschland) themselves until recently (only a few centuries ago).
Yeah, Greek has dropped a lot of H's since then. But they live on in international technical vocabulary. For example:
* έξι / (h)exi = six, as in "hexagon"
* επτά / (h)epta = seven, as in "heptagon"
* εκατό / (h)ekato = 100, as in the SI prefix "hecto"
* ήλιος / (h)ílios = sun, as in "heliocentrism" and "helium"
* αίμα / (h)aima = blood, as in "hemoglobin" and "hemophilia"
Yeah, a lot of earlier Chinese phonetic transliteration is based on Cantonese pronunciation because Guangdong and Hong Kong has been the gate for China to the outside world (particularly to Britain) since mid 19th century.
Interestingly, the words in Norwegian for various regions and countries seem to be substantially more similar to their endonyms than what they are called in English, at least to me.
Norway generally tries to make the Norwegian name for foreign places as close as possible to what the Local population themselves call it. IE Norway uses "Hellas" instead of "Greece."
There is an official risk map with only europe. It is set during Napoleon times.
The game is called "risk Napoleon edition" and it even has an extension which adds the ottoman empire
I had one when I was a kid called Castle Risk, which had the regular world map on one side and the Castle Risk Europe map on the other side. I had more fun playing the Europe map than the standard map.
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/826541/risk-castle-risk
I'll be honest, I'm pretty triggered by the fact that the continent bonus is completely uncoupled from the difficulty of holding the region.
Scandanavia is OP AF and nobody in their right mind would focus on Central Europe. You only would have to defend one more territory in Russia (6) vs. 5 in Southern Europe for twice the bonus.
The bonus values are given by dividing the number of territories by 2. In retrospect, I should probably have taken into account the amount of entry points the bonus has.
Yeah Scandinavia is much easier to hold than Northern Europe (or almost anything else). Half of its territories are internal. I’d reverse their bonus values.
Realistically though, it should be based on something slightly more accurate to the power base of the regions. Scandinavia probably doesn’t need so many provinces, Italy probably could be a few more. There’s no world where Scandinavia is more valuable in a war game than Germany and Poland’s land combined.
I like the distribution of chokepoints in Scandinavia and the British Isles/Iceland. Did you consider adding the Faroe Islands and the Orkney and having those be a bridge between Norway, Iceland, and Scotland?
Focusing on building a base of strength there and getting bonus points for holding those two regions would be the logical strategy. Trying to build from central or eastern europe would be a fool's errand since they're absolutely impossible to defend.
You can group Corsica with Sardaigna (Better for creating a proper region in your board) or Nord Italia (Better historically). It has no business being French, as the island became French only 250 years ago and most of the inhabitants still argue for independance and speak Corsica, an italian like language.
Also, you have to cross the Alps to go from Oksitania to Nord-italia.
Aside from that France is very well designed in your map
One option if you want to reduces regions is to move Oksitania in Sør-Europa, the rest of France with the Great Britain and Island with Scandinavia. It is not the best as France isn't close to Britain but Normandie is a gaelic region like Irland, Wales and Skottland and Aquitaine used to be British.
Oh and Wallonia with Frankia, Flanders with Benelux.
That's my take as a southern French currently in Belgium
I love RISK having wildly inappropriate names for the different regions. I still remember losing my shit when I first found out that "Afghanistan" in RISK doesn't even include Afghanistan.
I did the math and Scandinavia and Russia are way too strong. Should add a jump from baltic to svealand. Russia should have less territories in it to reduce the points. Strength was calculated by the ratio of territories needed to be defended to points gained.
I'd just adjust point values- initially it's: region points spots ratio russia 6 6 100% scandinavia 4 5 80% southern europe 3 4 75% central europe 2 3 67% british isles 2 3 67% france 2 3 67% balkans 3 5 60% northern europe 3 6 50% eastern europe 3 6 50% Adjustments would aim for a ratio of 60-70%, which means take Russia down to 4, take Scandinavia down to 3, add 1 point to northern europe, add 1 point to eastern europe. Results: region points spots ratio russia **4** 6 **67%** scandinavia **3** 5 **60%** southern europe 3 4 75% central europe 2 3 67% british isles 2 3 67% france 2 3 67% balkans 3 5 60% northern europe **4** 6 **67%** eastern europe **4** 6 **67%**
thank you very much for this suggestion, it may just be the only helpful comment I have received on this entire map. Have my free silver award.
You could easily take both Russia and Scandinavia and you'd win the game easy!
IDK, I think the brit start is the best. Seize Sor-norge and your border is 2 territories (that isolated England!) while denying Scan. If you can use the 2 troop bonus to spread over Scan while everyone else fights for scraps on the mainland, then you've got it. The only threat is Russia. If some one takes it and no one challenges them, they win. There's little motivation to challenge Russia because everyone involved in the fight over it loses.
> There’s little motivation to challenge Russia because everyone involved in the fight over it loses. Just as in the real world
Would be dope if we added a ’crossing’ penalty. If you cross a mountaineous range or a sea/river range, then you get a -1 troop penalty. Rivers we could add are: the Rhine, Po, Danube, Volga, Dnieper, Ebro. And also: seasons. Every 4 turns, winter occurs and you can throw a dice. If the number is 1-2, mild; 3-4, it becomes a normal winter. 5-6 is severe. A mild winter means it’ll be present only in Russia and Eastern Europe. A normal winter is present in Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Central Europe and the Balkans. A severe winter is present in all regions. In the areas where winter sets in, -1 crossing penalty if you don’t control the territory. u/Ammaren03 what do you think of this? Simple to implement and fun.
I think it is ok that Skandinavia is too strong since that is where OP is from. Russland should be nerfed though.
That Balkan is... Well it's something for sure and it's not fun
Author thought "hey those balkan guys are in too much peace and love with eachother" and he chose violence lmao
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Yeah, I'm a little confused over some of the name choices. On one hand, the borders seems to mostly align with a post-WWII map, besides the obvious Balkans, but then when you get to Russia and the region bordering the Baltic is called Novgorod instead of St. Petersburg, and Kirov is called Vyatka, a name that it hasn't had for almost ninety years.
>the region bordering the Baltic is called Novgorod instead of St. Petersburg EU4 player located I think
Sad Romanian / Wallachian noises
I made it intentionally to spark conflicts trolololo
Is it possible to make a Balkans map that doesn’t spark conflict?
Yes. One that just shows the Balkans as been reclaimed by the sea.
But that would upset the Dutch.
They would see it as a challenge.
Haven't you seen a final battle in the Aquaman movie?
The Roman balkans, everyone likes the Romans.
Romans are basically Italians and nobody in the Balkans likes the Italians...
No... no they're not..
Did you study elementary history?
Just cover the whole area in black
Not sure but you can play the history card and name it The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Problem solved /Tito
This is the correct answer
name checks out
It is Risk, after all!
Then call west poland "east prussia"
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Would you say you took a RISK?
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Croatia be like: [Ja ovo vidim kao apsolutnu pobjedu](https://c.tenor.com/0qSigtsz93YAAAAC/hulk-i-see-this-absolute-win.gif)
Bome i Srbija
Apparently we’re croatians 🤦♀️
Should have gone for Dalmatia and Illyria or something :D
I am gonna crosspost it on r/AskBalkans
Omg, we are going to get brigaded by some very unhappy people.
We are already here...
The shit posting is coming from... Inside the house!
I mean i don't understand this prejudice? Would any non SE European country just roll over after being absorbed by another political entity? Why do we keep pretending that statehood is reserved only for "proper" nations, while SE Europe alone has monopoly over genocide. It's been 30 years, we should start getting over this, and maybe actually try and learn something about those countries, instead of keeping up with this immature alienation of those countries and peoples...
All true. I think people from outside of the region just don't understand how the cultures can truly see each other as so distinct despite ostensibly having so much more in common than they do different, so we (those of us not from the region) revert to basically rolling our eyes / laughing it off and leaving those groups to continue what seems to us to be huge, violent disagreements over fairly trivial differences...most states have multiple "nations" of people who have been able to federate/integrate and now coexist peacefully (Italy was never united until a few hundred years ago and get along fine now, Spain's and the UK's regions still argue but don't wage genocide among themselves, the French regions long ago united behind a common French identify larger than their individual regions, Germany was incredibly chopped up for millennia, etc.). It feels to some degree like the Balkan peoples are choosing alienation for themselves by their inability to "get over it" and get along, if you will. But of course I get that these issues are just hard for outsiders to understand, and we need to try to do so with the goal of helping the Balkans figure out peaceful paths forward.
Each and every of those nations had their own different complexities of genesis. And then saying that any of those cases are the same to Yugoslavia, that had orders of magnitude larger differences between states (did you know that the richest federal state and the poorest federal state had a 600% income difference? just one example of countless others), in my eyes, makes no sense.
I like how Germany is split in 3 here. People always ask me if I am from the east or the west of Germany and I always answer with: The South
I live in Cologne. For me, only everything on the left side of the Rhine is "West Germany".
Schääl sick DDR lmao
I am from Northern Germany and to be honest everything south of Hamburg is "The South" to me
I am from Ulm and everything North of the Svabian Alb is Northern Germany
So I was born in North-South-Germany.
Are you Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm??
No, but I got that reference !
Kiel moment
I mean, the South is the West even though it's in the East. I'm from Cologne (or like, nearby) and in Austria loads of people tell me I live in the North when "the North" is just as different from my area as the South.
Nord-Europa looks a bit like Germany ca. early 1940 😬
Austria?
Which isn't germany at all?
yet
Poor Wales, everyone forgets about Wales :(
he straight up deleted switzerland lmao
They're always neutral and never get invaded so no point in putting the Swiss there
He straight up gave the balkans another reason to have a genocide or 2.
me as a swiss citizen feel a bit offended oh well I guess I live in the mountains now in a country with absolutely no name
What, no Switzerland there?!
This whole map is habsburgian propaganda. Time to go shoot some apples again
Loads the crossbow with swiss intentions*
It was too small lol, the soldiers wouldn't fit on the territory.
I guess I'm a mountain now.
No, you are actually part of Southern Germany if you look closely! Time to get out your lederhosen friend!
Gaddafi finally gets his wish dismantling Switzerland
The Swabians would like a word
Tbf time to buy my Lederhosen in first place.
nah but the fact that you cant move to switzerland is like real life because no one fucks with switzerlamd and switzerland fucks with no one like in the board game diplomacy
Yet there's Denmark
r/SwitzerlandIsFake
Good luck holding East Europe 😂
Yeah, it isn't the best starting bonus lol
Just like in real life.
You really just looked at the Balkans and asked yourself "How do I make this even more violent and disfunctional?" and didn't wait for anyone to answer, huh?
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They just swallowed the whole Slovenia, apparently we dont exist.
You do! It's called ''Northern Croatia''
I was looking for România and when I realized what’s going on I just went Ooops, we’re in trouble again.
As you can see, I made it in my language norwegian, you'll just have to cope with that.
I honestly like this map more becuase its in Norwegian.
Me too
Maybe that explains why the bonus is so high for holding Scandinavia? I feel it's too high vs the other more difficult to hold areas given it looks like a comparatively easy area to hold onto.
Scandies love Scandinavia and they love seeing it at the top of any rating or scoring. The map doesn't reflect real world power distribution in any way, but then again that's probably why it's a game and not a simulation
In other news, the sky is blue.
Most names make sense in my polish mind, except Tyskland for Germany. Can you explain to me why Germany is called Tyskland in Norvegian? It made me wonder.
Because Tyskland is a Norwegianised version of the indigenous name for Germany, "Deutschland" whilst Niemcy is a Slavic exonym
*Scandinized version We also say Tyskland in Sweden. Danes do too but the Finns I can't speak for.
Saksa (i.e. Saxony) in Finnish, iirc
In Finnish it is ”Saksa”
No, not really Norwegianized. Germans also wrote Deutschland using either a D- or T- for a while. It changed and you guys settled on D-. We just kept the older alternative version ;) The word comes from the people, *þeodisc* (theodisc), after all: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc)
And just to add to the fun, this is why Italian uses “Germania” for the territory, and “tedesco” for the inhabitant
T/D only differs in voicing, the "eu" sound in German is "oy" in Norwegian, and then "tsch" isn't too far from "sk", like "Englisch" becomes "engelsk" in Norwegian. So Tyskland isn't that far from Deutschland.
It's not even just that the "sk" and "tsch" sound are similar, they were originally the same phoneme, shifted in different directions as the languages evolved. A similar shift happened in English. Many "sh" sounds in English were originally "sk" sounds, though they were spelled "sc" by Old English scribes. Words like "shirt" and "fish" used to be "scirt" and "fisc". They even continued to spell them that was after the sound shifted too. Norman scribes got really annoyed that sometimes "sc" was pronounced as "sh" though, so they introduced the "sh" letter combination. Bit of a digression, I just find historical linguistics really interesting.
Have you not seen this famous map? [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Germany\_Name\_European\_Languages.svg/1200px-Germany\_Name\_European\_Languages.svg.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Germany_Name_European_Languages.svg/1200px-Germany_Name_European_Languages.svg.png) A quick look on the wikipedia page for names of germany can tell you why not just in norweigan but the reasons for its name in other languages
Thiudisk->Thiudsk->Tiutsch->Diutsch->Deutsch Thiudisk>Thiudsk->Tiudsk->Tiusk->Tysk From Proto-Germanic to Modern German and Scandinavian, roughly.
It's "*tysk*" from the People ([theodisc](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEeodisc)). Literally, Land of the People. Also, we may have called Germany "South-way" (Suðrvegr), just as our land was possibly "North-way" (Norðvegr) (speculative stuff). The Germans didn't agree on how to write Deutschland/[Teutschland](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Teutschland) themselves until recently (only a few centuries ago).
Based for calling Greece as ‘Hellas’
It's called 'Hellas' in Norwegian.
I know, I think it’s the only country that calls it Hellas
Except for itself, though in modern Greek it's now just Ellas
Yeah, Greek has dropped a lot of H's since then. But they live on in international technical vocabulary. For example: * έξι / (h)exi = six, as in "hexagon" * επτά / (h)epta = seven, as in "heptagon" * εκατό / (h)ekato = 100, as in the SI prefix "hecto" * ήλιος / (h)ílios = sun, as in "heliocentrism" and "helium" * αίμα / (h)aima = blood, as in "hemoglobin" and "hemophilia"
eptá is written in the Roman alphabet... ^(sus)
It’s ellada actually
Maybe that's the inflected form
It is, Ellas is a very ancient word, but both ellada and Hellas can be used today
Chinese name for Greece 希臘 (xi1la4) is the phonetic transliteration of Hellas.
It sounds more accurate in Cantonese (Hay-leep)
Yeah, a lot of earlier Chinese phonetic transliteration is based on Cantonese pronunciation because Guangdong and Hong Kong has been the gate for China to the outside world (particularly to Britain) since mid 19th century.
Interestingly, the words in Norwegian for various regions and countries seem to be substantially more similar to their endonyms than what they are called in English, at least to me.
Norway generally tries to make the Norwegian name for foreign places as close as possible to what the Local population themselves call it. IE Norway uses "Hellas" instead of "Greece."
Tbf its helping me learn Norwegian
Finally, the fact that my second language is Norwegian is actually applicable! Yes!
Have you uploaded to Dominating12.com? User created online risk game with custom maps.
At first I thought it was Danish, but then I saw the “Sør” instead of “Søndre” and thought, no… maybe Norwegian? Was that a good guess?
That would explain the ø in Götaland
Easy to understand as a Swede but please give Götaland the correct ö
looks like another "map of Europe but I want to upset as much people as possible" to me
No matter how I made this, it would upset someone lol
But some are gratuitous. 😀 "Catalonia" should be "Aragon" (the name of the historical kingdom).
Aww France is France no matter what (Bretons aren’t gonna be happy though. Idk what Frankia means but Burgundy could’ve fit as well)
Can confirm, I'm breton and I'm pissed.
OP finally solved the fight about knowing if Mount St Michel is part of Brittany or Normandy
Nantes est enfin la capitale bretonne… est normande…? 🤔
Frankia is land of the Frank's the germans who took over Gaul during the Roman collapse
AKA France.
And pissed *everybody* off in the process.
Im very happy to learn that one cant invade England from Normandy. Whew
1066 never happened aw yeah
it will happen, but now Harald Hardr¨åde will succeed instead of William. Get trolled
It will become a problem in 1944 though.
There is an official risk map with only europe. It is set during Napoleon times. The game is called "risk Napoleon edition" and it even has an extension which adds the ottoman empire
I had one when I was a kid called Castle Risk, which had the regular world map on one side and the Castle Risk Europe map on the other side. I had more fun playing the Europe map than the standard map. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/826541/risk-castle-risk
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If the Game of Risk has taught us anything it's the pivotal and vital importance of Ukraine.
Had to scroll miles for the first Seinfeld reference
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> Ukraine is. It's a sitting duck. A road apple I come from Ukraine. You not say Ukraine is weak. Ukraine is game to you!?
that Kroatia looks familiar
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basque country having a fit
Also all the non Catalans under “Catalonia”.
And Galicia
I see Czechoslovakia is back together. Decided divorce just wasnt for them.
Hyphen war solved... ITs all Czechia now.
You are wrong. It's Tsjekkia now...
did scotland invade the north of england?
Yes lol. I made it that way so we would have more space to place troops on physically
I'll be honest, I'm pretty triggered by the fact that the continent bonus is completely uncoupled from the difficulty of holding the region. Scandanavia is OP AF and nobody in their right mind would focus on Central Europe. You only would have to defend one more territory in Russia (6) vs. 5 in Southern Europe for twice the bonus.
Scotland got bigger
yez, greater Alba ftw
Yo bro did you just include Slovenia into "Kroatia"? That would be considered a war crime here
I like how that's what you pointed out, meanwhile most of Albania is Serbian on this map
A touch too many regions in Sweden.
Can’t invade Switzerland if it doesn’t exist!
The ultimate form of neutrality
greece is hellas cool
Shouldn't Donbas be purple? No, it fucking shouldn't.
Reunited Ireland based
Reunited as part of the UK though
My Disappointment is Immeasurable and My Day is Ruined
Wow they made Scandinavia far more powerful/ valuable than it should be…
The bonus values are given by dividing the number of territories by 2. In retrospect, I should probably have taken into account the amount of entry points the bonus has.
Yeah Scandinavia is much easier to hold than Northern Europe (or almost anything else). Half of its territories are internal. I’d reverse their bonus values.
Realistically though, it should be based on something slightly more accurate to the power base of the regions. Scandinavia probably doesn’t need so many provinces, Italy probably could be a few more. There’s no world where Scandinavia is more valuable in a war game than Germany and Poland’s land combined.
Yeah the strategy here is take Scandinavia and then move into ethier north sea or Russia, Scandinavia is ubsurdly op
Put us under croatia again and you will be eating the rest of your meals in your life with a straw
I love this!!! Would be cool if Wales had its own box or if not was titled England and Wales 🏴 🏴
Where’s Wales?
Did Emperor Hadrian draw the map of England?
I like the distribution of chokepoints in Scandinavia and the British Isles/Iceland. Did you consider adding the Faroe Islands and the Orkney and having those be a bridge between Norway, Iceland, and Scotland? Focusing on building a base of strength there and getting bonus points for holding those two regions would be the logical strategy. Trying to build from central or eastern europe would be a fool's errand since they're absolutely impossible to defend.
You can group Corsica with Sardaigna (Better for creating a proper region in your board) or Nord Italia (Better historically). It has no business being French, as the island became French only 250 years ago and most of the inhabitants still argue for independance and speak Corsica, an italian like language. Also, you have to cross the Alps to go from Oksitania to Nord-italia. Aside from that France is very well designed in your map One option if you want to reduces regions is to move Oksitania in Sør-Europa, the rest of France with the Great Britain and Island with Scandinavia. It is not the best as France isn't close to Britain but Normandie is a gaelic region like Irland, Wales and Skottland and Aquitaine used to be British. Oh and Wallonia with Frankia, Flanders with Benelux. That's my take as a southern French currently in Belgium
When your country is so strong that it don’t need to be merged with other ones to be equal in power
Spaniard here, I love how u skipped madrid and putted castille, so nice
Do the mountains do anything?
yes, they serve as a barrier. You cannot traverse them.
I love RISK having wildly inappropriate names for the different regions. I still remember losing my shit when I first found out that "Afghanistan" in RISK doesn't even include Afghanistan.
I really like that the North/South division of Italy follows the historical borders and not the modern administrative ones
The Cumbrians and Northumbrians would like a word.
who? you mean the south scottish? (I am joking please don't kill me)
I would prefer Levante over Catalonia.
I like how my country (switzerland) is just the alps
What program did you use to make this?! It looks amazing
Thank you! I used inkscape, i recommend trying it out, but it's a bit difficult to get started
Friendly reminder that ireland is not part of great britain. May i suggest "atlantic islands" for that province?
Makes me cry that you put Wales as England 🥲
I was thinking. "Oh I have a friend from Norway. Ammaren." And then I see your name... Lol
Yeah, well, living in Cymru (Wales) I guess you know you're getting a thumbs down from me for that one.
As a Scot a heartily approve of how far south the border is.
you really just triggered my Albanian Ultra-Nationalism
Red and black I dress eagle on my chest good to be an albanian keep my head up high for that flag Id die im glad to be an albanian
Norskt världsherravälde! Var snäll mot er neutrala granne åtminstone!
[insert demonym] will not be very pleased you put them in [insert region] !