Day 41 Risk - Chaos Has Been Pushed Back, But Now The Evil Empire Is Threatening Alaska and California. Scotty, We Need More Power!
Last night was a decidedly mixed bag for the Good Guys. On the plus side, Chaos is no longer on our border and we maintained our footholds in Hawaii and North Carolina (where we are invading Georgia Tech's territory). On the negative side, Ohio State creeped closer to Alaska and Georgia Tech expanded its presence in California.
Both of the latter developments are a real problem for us. In case you don't know, Boston College connects to the Pacific northwest through Alaska, so Ohio State taking that territory could become a major headache for us (just like us going the opposite direction was a major headache for the Buckeyes).
Georgia Tech's expansion is perhaps just as troubling. After last night, we have exactly 0 protected territories in California. Thus, it's theoretically possible that California could be painted entirely Dijon yellow tomorrow (GT lists their colors as white and "Old gold"....but it's Dijon mustard).
If we're able to push Ohio State back in the northeast and shrink/eliminate GT's foothold in California, we'll be sitting pretty in the home stretch of this game. 1,346 of you played last night...let's push that number even closer to 1,500! Participation tends to dip during the weekend. Let's take advantage of that likelihood by increasing our own advantage. Every single one of you is important! Heck, a 1-star who had only been playing for 4 days took NC State last night (thank you zasabi7!).
So keep playing EVERY DAY (please don't be the guy who misses a day after playing for 30 turns straight), keep recruiting your friends, and family, and go to MichiganCFBRisk.com for every turn to get your assignment. Now Let's Go Blue!
What's the tl;dr version of what I just said? Simple. WE NEED MORE POWER.
Steps To Play Every Day With Hyperlinks: Attached to this post is a PDF with easy to digest instructions and hyperlinks. Below is the same information written out.
- Sign up for a https://reddit.com/ account if you don’t have one already
- Visit https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Click Sign in with Reddit – Select Michigan as your team
- Visit https://michigancfbrisk.com/ - click “Login using Reddit” – Click “Get an Assignment”
- Return to https://collegefootballrisk.com/ – Scroll to the bottom of the page and execute your assignment (Note: Simply clicking action so that it becomes highlighted gray confirms the move. There’s no submit or confirm button needed)
What's up with Nebraska slowly creeping towards Alaska? Are we 100 percent sure they aren't pulling a double bluff and playing for the bad guys? Seems like they are.
We're good with them. Notice that we put a combined 60 power on Washington last night. That's nothing. It's all part of the usual back and forth with allies.
Why did we put anything into a protected territory? That 35 power in Stanford might have made a difference.
MVP farming, most likely.
You'd have to ask the rogues that don't take orders from us!
Thanks.
Does the time of day we attack or defend matter, once we receive our assignment? Upon completing just minutes ago my duty now for the future (of the Michigan CFB Risk team, that is), I got to wondering if there's an advantage in attacking later rather than early?
Nope! The RNG goes to work at 11 and all orders are thrown into the same pot regardless of when they were entered.
I did my duty yesterday and *shudders* defended Columbus, but the roll was against us. What was our projected total for last nights round?
We had 6,557 last night. Good numbers.
You can find this information from the Team Odds link. Our expected total was 27.4, but we only got 26 -- a slightly negative roll.
We only had a 33% chance to defend Columbus. I suspect we knew OSU would concentrate their attack there, and planned accordingly.
Any chance you can get the mods to change my team affiliation to Michigan?
Reddit user name is 4godkingandUM. Accidentally selected wrong team in sign up flow.
I asked in the Discord (which you should sign up for!).
Should be fixed
Those who play will be champions!
the refs hosed us!
JT was short!
That’s hilarious! Thanks for posting.
We lost 10 territories last night. Fuck.
Looks like OSU is outmaneuvering you in the east.
*You*? Pray tell why is it not *us*? Go sign up.
Ok I submitted my first move today
Missed yesterday. It won't happen again.
Move made.
"Defend Ohio State" sounds weird.
Just signed up and got my first assignment. It simply says Miami (ntm). I found Miami in the attack section of the game. I pushed it and now that logo is highlighted. Now what? My turn ends clock is still counting down.
You're good. the clock is when the turn ends for everyone. (You could change your choice until then)
People will quickly point out-- don't share your assignment publicly. It will give away our strategy.
Thanks.
Sorry, didn’t know about the keeping it private. Won’t make that mistake again.
Question: why was my today's assignment a territory we don't border
So somehow I got sent back to a 1*. I entered my move for today which was attack Connecticut but after logging in tonight after the roll it shows me as a 1* with no streak!! Wtf
a.) don't talk about assignments. op sec, man, op sec!
b.) looks like we pushed the bad guys back some. showing we bounced back to 31 territories and the bad guys sunk down to 17. meanwhile ohio went down to 13. heartbreaking....