Risk: An Email in Two Acts
Just to clarify, Tim, by "Risk" you mean "the classic game of world
domination," right? And Marcus, by "Croatia" you mean "Southern
Europe" right? And by "poetry" y'all mean "controlling all of Asia
for a full round and receiving the seven army bonus plus depriving
your opponents of control of Siam which will ultimately lead to the
invasion of Australia, the purple continent and the sacking of North
America via Alaska via Kamchatka," right? And perhaps, if this is the
case, then by "avant garde" you are referring to "that huge stack of
armies that you've been amassing in Central America, biding your time
for a crushing blow to Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, and finally if luck
is on your side, swinging up into Brazil driving the opposing armies
back into Northern Africa solidifying your stronghold in the
Americas," right? Well then, if that's the case, then I must insist
that the Ukraine is NOT in fact weak, and to signify my opinion I will
crush your silly game!
en garde avant garde!
[mock belligerence] fish
PS perhaps you have misunderstood me. perhaps it would be better if
I controlled all four railroads as well as Baltic Avenue and
Mediterranean. I'll trade you Park Place for Baltic. It's worth THAT
much to me. (Little do you suspect my fiendish plan to procure hotels
for these properties more quickly than you can round the board twice.
You will not go bankrupt, my friends, you will merely pay out your
$200 for passing GO to me
every
single
time.
Good luck anyway.

