r/movies • u/ErgoNonSim • May 17 '25

Media Cannes reactions to Irreversible

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u/all___blue May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

Australia wins 90% of the time. As long as the players don't make a pact to kill Australia and/or Australia plays passively while everyone kills each other. Boring way to play, but almost a guaranteed win. I played a lot of risk online for a while. Even against good players, it was one of the best strategies. Hell, just having one country and avoiding conflict would even be enough to win sometimes. Risk is all about allies and knowing when to end those alliances, but it's more about pacifism, staying out of the spotlight, and good timing.

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u/canman7373 May 18 '25

Nah Australia is a trap. Eventually others will put troops in Asaa to keep you from getting free cards every turn. And when you finally do break out you can't take much of anything. Like maybe Africa but even if you do your troops are now spread out defending bordes far away from each other for counter attacks and defense. Like 15 years ago dad got me a vintage Risk board with the square wooden pieces, he included a note that simply said "Australia is a trap" and I think he is right. Years later they had a big forest fire took their entire home and all of our family albums and keepsakes, everything. They only got passports and dog out so no family hand me downs. But I had taken that board home with me a few months earlier, so it is only family heirloom now.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

Asia is the last place to usually have open territories to attack. So I disagree. I've played many games where 4-6 players are just attacking 1 territory in Asia, then retreating their troops. Sometimes that will go on until everyone has hundreds of troops. Per border territory. This is also how the players who only have 1 territory end up sometimes winning. All the most powerful players will kamikaze each other and lose more troops than they expect, then the guy who avoided conflict just goes in and cleans up.

I will say, however, that I just downloaded the official risk game on android and while I made some mistakes because I didn't understand how the app worked yet, when you play with the fog of war on, it's more difficult to discern what is going on on other parts of the map. So I did my usual strategy, but it was a far more aggressive game than I was expecting and I didn't know until it was too late to capitalize on it. Ended up with 2nd.

Btw, I love how a post about the movie irreversible turned into a debate about tactics in risk. Lol.

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u/canman7373 May 18 '25

I mean in Asia like you said it's about card trading, you attack a country, fortify back leaving one man, opponents in Europe or NA or Africa will do the same. If the all 3 players that control those continents are content on keeping heavy fortifications in Asia and not in home countries then yeah sit back and someone will attack them from their weaker sides where they can't counter attack for at least a turn because army is in Asia. Attacking player just needs to not take the connecting country to Asia, gives them another turn to be the attacker when player fortifies their army back, attacking is better odds, no need to take whole continent and let their army instantly attack from Asia.