Has anyone else attacked a territory defened by one troop with a army of like 15? Then lost like 7 dudes against this one dude?

Yup.  Even in the real game that has happened to me...

That happens in real risk too. One time I attacked a territory, I had an army of 30, they had one, I lost about 20 dudes. That threw a wrench in my plans.

That's why the grown-ups play Axis & Allies.

Yeah, it fucking sucks, but it happens a lot in real life, too.  

I love defending territory like crazy with my 3 guys against someone's 10 or more. Especially when you just roll 6's.

I attacked a territory of 12 soldiers with 35 of my guys and had to retreat.

The dice are pretty "balanced" if you look in the War Record. However, real dice aren't that "balanced".

Your title suck.

such is Risk

Well it's called Risk for a reason.

Sadly i know this to well. That's life my friend.

Everyone who says "yeah this is how it is in real life" is either extremely unlucky or remembering wrong. I play Risk irl quite a bit, and always thought it was fairly balanced. But within 20 minutes of playing I lost a 7 to 1, a 5 to 1, and a 12 to 5.

Now you know what it was like for the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae.

That's why I don't like Risk so much--too much luck and not enough strategy. 
 
It's fun when you're hanging out with friends and form unbalanced alliances and backstab everyone... but my huge forces get obliterated all too often due to bad dice rolls.

Happens, bro. That's just how the dice roll.

" Well it's called Risk for a reason. "

It happens, brah.

It has definitely happened to me in real life. 

It is called risk

" Well it's called Risk for a reason. "

I like it when people call dice-centric games "games of skill". I've heard this applied to Risk, Backgammon, YAHTZEE (I know, what the fuck?), and others. Any game that you can win against ridiculous odds or lose a guaranteed victory simply because of fucking dice rolls, does NOT get to be called a skill game.

" such is Risk "

Half the fun of Risk is seeing the one soldier hold the fort against an decent sized army. This definitely has happened to me / I've done this many times in the real life board game. When they tried to change the gameplay in a Windows version of Risk such that there was only a one 12-sided die, it wrecked the one-man defence and caused ended up favouring the attacking team. In my opinion, this model seems more fair and realistic, but it sucked from a fun point of view.

Ya, about the only reason I shy away from luck based games.

You never know in stuff like this if the dice is ACTUALLY random.

They are random though.
 
You can check in your battle stats to see how many of each die has been rolled. At least in my game, the stats make sense being random.

" That's why the grown-ups play Axis & Allies. "

" That's why the grown-ups play Axis & Allies. "

" That's why I don't like Risk so much--too much luck and not enough strategy.  It's fun when you're hanging out with friends and form unbalanced alliances and backstab everyone... but my huge forces get obliterated all too often due to bad dice rolls. "

" @SuperBuster said:

" That's why the grown-ups play Axis & Allies. "

In my experience, just about every game of Axis and Allies goes exactly the same. No fun at all.
 
@Keenblaze said:

" That's why I don't like Risk so much--too much luck and not enough strategy.  It's fun when you're hanging out with friends and form unbalanced alliances and backstab everyone... but my huge forces get obliterated all too often due to bad dice rolls. "

This is why I don't play very much Risk anymore and prefer Settlers of Catan, specifically with the Cities and Knights expansion, which adds enough strategic elements to bring it up to the level of risk as far as as required player strategy. I've never played Puerto Rico, but it's supposedly the best board game ever and doesn't involve any element of luck. "

" Has anyone else attacked a territory defened by one troop with a army of like 15? Then lost like 7 dudes against this one dude? "

" The dice are pretty "balanced" if you look in the War Record. However, real dice aren't that "balanced". "

" @Rockdalf said:

" The dice are pretty "balanced" if you look in the War Record. However, real dice aren't that "balanced". "

Yes, they are. The more you roll, the more balanced are the numbers. "

"Has anyone else attacked a territory defened by one troop with a army of like 15? Then lost like 7 dudes against this one dude? "

" That's why the grown-ups play Axis & Allies. "