CFB Risk Day 30: Do or do not. There is no try!
Our chief propagandists are busy tending to more important things today. 100 Michigan CFB Risk players vanished yesterday like a fart in the wind. Help us Michigan Rogue Force, you're our only hope.
Head over to CFB Risk and attack any OSU (gray), A&M (dark red) or Wisconsin (bright red) territory. If you want a specific attack/defend order aligned with Michigan’s current battle plan go to Michigan Risk Central Command.
We hope to return to your regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. Go Blue!
February 24th, 2023 at 8:25 PM ^
Thanks for filling in, MacGyver.
BTW: I used to watch your show religiously. It was amazing what you could do with nothing but a roll of duct tape.
February 24th, 2023 at 8:38 PM ^
Fun fact: MacGyver, well the guy who played MacGyver, attended the real Ohio University.
February 24th, 2023 at 8:26 PM ^
Thank you! Orders in
February 24th, 2023 at 8:33 PM ^
Participation is down because “leadership” is straight trash.
February 24th, 2023 at 8:51 PM ^
Orders are optional. Losing to OSU is not
February 24th, 2023 at 8:57 PM ^
The leadership clearly made some mistakes but in all fairness the "rolls" being weighted to favor upsets and the mods of the game allowing Ohio State to benefit from an obvious bot fest really ruined the game.
February 24th, 2023 at 9:17 PM ^
Leadership tried to enter into a NAP with a team that has allied itself with literally every other team in the game against us. That is more than a simple mistake.
February 25th, 2023 at 9:10 AM ^
I'm not sure why you're so butt hurt. The "leadership" is several volunteers donating a lot of their personal time trying to make something fun for a large group of people. If you have a problem with that, feel free to step up and give of your most precious resource (time) and do likewise. Otherwise, may I suggest if you're not enjoying it, you simply don't play?
February 25th, 2023 at 10:54 AM ^
Volunteers or not, still trash. Both strategically and as people (one of them anyway).
February 25th, 2023 at 11:20 AM ^
Trash like up voting your own comments?
February 25th, 2023 at 11:22 AM ^
If only I were the only one upvoting them.
February 24th, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
Yeah we are stranded in Canada and can't get out
February 24th, 2023 at 11:02 PM ^
While you're there be sure to fill up @ Corner Gas and get a bite to eat @ Ruby's.
February 24th, 2023 at 11:27 PM ^
Dude you're mad because you resorted to random ad hominem attacks and got banned from the discord. Take a deep breath. It is a game.
I've personally seen no evidence people are going to stop playing because they're using a website for orders vs. a long list on discord. And at least this time there are options vs. just a single command in the past.
February 25th, 2023 at 10:56 AM ^
Go on, tell me more about myself. Please. Since you think you know who I am.
February 25th, 2023 at 11:22 AM ^
Well, we know you up vote your own comments here.
February 25th, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
And that is when he got banned from this site.
We're not going to have bitchy internet fights spilling over here from Discord. Take it somewhere else.
February 25th, 2023 at 9:51 AM ^
What ruined the game was terrible strategy. They tried to build alliances and got burnt several times.
Giving up the Midwest and starting a base out west (with no competition) would have been more successful. Trying to fight on several fronts just doesn’t work
February 24th, 2023 at 8:39 PM ^
We look pretty well screwed
February 24th, 2023 at 8:51 PM ^
If we keep at it and add a few players each day we can make gains. No one can say attacking OSU doesn’t brighten even the dreariest day!!!
February 24th, 2023 at 9:39 PM ^
What is obvious from this map and recent events is that OSU would rather us lose than them win. OSU and Wisconsin are handing the game to A&M.
February 24th, 2023 at 10:07 PM ^
I finally caved and joined in. Attacked osu in moose river whatever the f that is!
February 25th, 2023 at 2:05 AM ^
It's up by Moose Jaw Eh!
February 24th, 2023 at 11:15 PM ^
Fuck Ohio State! No alliances! Go Bleu!
February 24th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
Some interesting progress with the new strategy.
If anyone missed tonight's roll, orders are already ready for tomorrow's, so jump in!
February 25th, 2023 at 12:23 AM ^
Fingers crossed for a swift ending.
February 25th, 2023 at 12:56 AM ^
It’s pretty clear the top four other teams have made it a priority to beat Michigan. Not going to end well regardless of strategy or force size at this point. Learnings for next time.
February 25th, 2023 at 4:18 AM ^
I take a look at this map, and it makes me think that we are losing. It seems like Columbus has Ann Arbor. But, on the whole map, we have the biggest Block M.
If we were real world trading, I would give up the nothern territories for the Caribbean Islands. And I would drink pure pineapple juice with Malibu Black Caribbean Rum With Coconut Liqueur 750ml
Then I would concentrate again on the map. Get Ann Arbor back.
February 25th, 2023 at 2:33 PM ^
Still participating, but not going to lie, it's getting really hard to enjoy this game.
The people drawing up the strategies have made a lot of really bad decisions, chief among them handing a bunch of free land to Wisconsin during an alliance I feel like any sane person knew we were going to get shafted by. We've been paying for that ever since.
The problems with this game go a lot further beyond that though. The bot incident is a glaring issue, but I'm also getting very tired of us losing so many supposedly high percentage rolls at a significantly higher clip than is frankly reasonable.
Add in the fact that literally nobody has given a single fuck to deal with TAMU this entire game and have essentially handed it to them 10 turns out, and I'm not sure why I'm even bothering. The region thing was an interesting idea in theory, but it fundamentally assumes that the participating teams have a basic level of intelligence and rationality, which clearly is not the case. Why bother trying to win the game when you can keep kicking Michigan, whom you were the ones to backstab in the first place?
February 25th, 2023 at 2:41 PM ^
This is where I was when I gave up. You could see TAMU just keep growing and taking over more and more land, not with the regions they are unstoppable. Feels like it gives value to the crap decisions about the bots and rerolls to keep playing and giving the developers more clicks.
February 25th, 2023 at 3:26 PM ^
I think you encapsulated this perfectly. There's simply no fun to it. All of the other teams are against Michigan, all of the rules are against Michigan, all of the rolls are against Michigan, and all of the cheating went against Michigan. Good strategy is never rewarded. Good team management is not rewarded. It's like the only point of the game is to fulfill a fantasy of hating Michigan. I don't want to undermine the well-meaning people trying to play it, but I'm purposefully not promoting it this year on the site because I don't think any Michigan fan will have any enjoyment from playing. If this was a sport we would have walked off the court by now.
February 25th, 2023 at 4:05 PM ^
Michigan fans should just boycott and not play.
February 25th, 2023 at 2:45 PM ^
One thing I suggest is getting these posts up earlier. It’s almost 3pm Eastern and there is no post for today, though orders are available. I think you can skip the fancy narrative and just say, “it’s so or die. No time for talk. Here are the ways you can contribute.” That post should go out the second orders are ready to maximize time on this board.
February 25th, 2023 at 4:07 PM ^
I want to point out something that you may have missed if you just looked at the map and not the underlying numbers. Last night we had an “expected territories” number of 33.87; that’s almost the same as OSU’s and almost 10 more than the day before. This is big jump that was carefully planned. We got unlucky on the roll , though, and got 29.
Now while we got unlucky last night, we passed Ga. Tech to get back to third, We have a good chance of catching OSU for second tonight.
While I’ve had some disagreements on strategy with some of the leadership, we are on the brink of a major comeback if we can keep numbers up. Please, please keep clicking.