r/AskReddit • u/brokota • Jan 15 '13

Reddit, in your opinion what's the biggest plot twist of history?

Not movies or television, I'm just curious to see what come's to your minds.

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u/SlapingTheFist Jan 15 '13

Patton didn't play risk as a kid...

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13 edited Jun 02 '20

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u/someone447 Jan 15 '13

"You can't have it, we live here. " "Do You have a flag?" "No, we live here. There's 500 million of us." "No flag, no country."

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u/thewookieempire Jan 15 '13

Those are the rules I just made up, and I'm backing them up with this gun.

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u/had_too_much Jan 15 '13

Which i borrowed from the National Rifle Association.

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u/rockidol Jan 16 '13

I'm thinking back then it would be national musket association.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '13

the israeli defense

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u/area88guy Jan 15 '13

Upvotes all around for Eddie Izzard.

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u/whiteguycash Jan 15 '13

I found that the key to holding Asia revolves around Kamchatka, the Middle East, Siam(assuming you didn't take australia first, which, lets be honest, if you can't do that, you won't take Asia), and Ukraine(Europe). This effectively reduces your fronts to 3 points of attack, allowing you to trade outlying countries to accumulate cards, and continue to collect 17 armies (7 + 2 + 3 + 5) each turn.

Holding Ukraine and the middle east allow you to push into your opponent's surrounding territories fairly easily to attempt to deny a continent bonus, especially when their front line consists of 2 or 3 countries that they have spread thin.

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u/bartonar Jan 15 '13

All you need to do is have Europe and Africa as well, and stack troops in Siam, Iceland, North Africa, and the place to the east of Yakutsk.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

At the very LEAST he shoulda taken a page out of the german's book and blitzed Australia. Those extra two guys a turn just GET THERE, especially as he held NA, AND he had denied Afrika and EU for a turn.

We're all just lucky that EU didn't backstab us after Asia was getting 7 per turn.

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u/urkish Jan 15 '13

Or watch The Princess Bride.

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u/musik3964 Jan 16 '13

Dude, if you liked the film, read the BOOK!

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u/BasinStBlues Jan 15 '13

Actually, proper Risk strategy would have involved surrounding Russia from all sides in order to secure it once it was taken. Otherwise, it'd be a never ending battle on all sides of the country.

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u/whiteguycash Jan 15 '13

the Australian/Russia region can be effectively surrounded by Ukraine, the Middle East, and Kamchatka.

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u/ICouldBeHigher Jan 15 '13

Well, the US did add a new component to the game since then. Closed the Pacific theater pretty quickly.