I've been messing around with the settings to try to get a game as similar as possible to Risk. Anyone got suggestions on how to make the cards work in that setting?

No cards except for the reinforcement card, do it in 3 pieces with 10 armies.

use small earth that is a risk map

Random Full distribution no limit.
Extra army every 3 territories.
No Fog

http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TemplateID=199933

Here's one I made a little while ago.

Moros - you might note the card is in 4 pieces - that is because in a risk game you have to trade a 'set' of cards out of a maximum of 5 - and there is no guarantee you can trade in while you have 3 cards - nor is there a guarantee you will have to wait until 5. So 4 is a medium number.

As for the rest of the settings

6 players so the map has an equal full distribution
100% luck to factor in the dice
Cyclic turns
No fog

And some others - you can see them on the template though.

I think it's pretty close though it will never be perfect - it's a different game after all. And also I'm always open to improving it.

NB if a non member takes this template you will lose the luck and cyclic turns. They will revert to non member settings.

Thanks for the advice, the card's the one I've had most trouble tweaking, I've found 10 in pieces is best so far, will try in 4 or 5 next.

Ska2D2 what about multi-attack?

You know Gnull - I never gave that any thought - yes it would be better though.

The reason I ignored it thinking about it - is because I try to ignore multi attack completley! I never play multi attack games so I didn't think about it as a setting. - Good call there I will edit now.

http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TournamentID=2667

Sorry tried to make it practice under advice from Niko and warlight rejected the change on two different browsers.

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at createTournament\CreateTournamentManager.as:EndCreateTournament()
at warlight\shared\messages\Message.as:CreateTournamentReply()
at warlight\shared\messages\Message.as:OnReply()
at warlight\shared\messages\Message.as:()
at warlight\shared\messages\MessagePump.as:OnReceiveMessage()
at shared\Messaging.as:completeHandler()
at shared\HttpRequest.as:completeHandler()
(sp=6)

I'll try again in the morning

Risk settings have been play tested and work well.

So I am opening the first tournament using the settings (with slight tweaks thanks to Gnullbegg for that)

http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TournamentID=2700

Moros - you might note the card is in 4 pieces - that is because in a risk game you have to trade a 'set' of cards out of a maximum of 5 - and there is no guarantee you can trade in while you have 3 cards - nor is there a guarantee you will have to wait until 5. So 4 is a medium number.

For the first card you are right. However, after you trade in a few cards, the average time between trading in cards goes to three turns. The way to mimic this is to have players start with -1 card pieces (and three pieces per card), but WL cannot model that.

Technical details:
WL doesn't keep track of how many cards you have, it actually tracks each card; if you look at a log from the Game Feed API, you'll see each card has a unique ID number. If it simply tracked the amount of card pieces it would be easy to allow negative numbers; with this system, I don't think it can be done.

Also, if memory serves, three infantry cards are worth 4 armies, three cavalry cards are worth 6 armies, three artillery cards are worth 8 armies and only a mixed set of one of each is worth 10 armies. I didn't do the actual calculation, but sometimes you get to give cards without having a mixed set, so the reinforcement card should really be only worth 9 armies or so.

Ok - I can easily change it to 9. Thanks for the insight.

Also each player now begins with 1 card - this is to reflect (as best I can) the starting armies you place at the beginning of a game of risk.

All improvements I can make are very welcome. So thanks again - don't be shy if you see other problems.

Also would you help testing the template? I want to develop a team template as well, but current tests (with open filters) were a bit inconclusive.

I think it would be more realistc if you change the armies per player territory to 3 and make the base armies per turn 0

I take it back that the base armies per turn should be 0.
But the armies per player territory should be 2 or 3 with 0 pieces of the card.


With the card and 3 base armies per you have 7 armies to deploy, on territories where are 1 armie, and i think most ppl will deploy it on 1 territorie, what would make the game a lot different from Risk.

Normally if you play with 6 players everyone get 20 armies to deploy on the 7 territories(average 2,857), with a max of 4 armies at a territory.


If you make the armies per player territory to 3 there will be 21+3(24) armies.
If you make the armies per player territory to 2 there will be 14+3(17) armies.

Doesn't the mean of 4,6,8,10 = 7?

Come to think of it - the medium is also 7

Ska, yes, it is, but usually you don't trade in three of the same cards, instead waiting until next turn, hoping you can complete a mixed set before running into the five-card-limit.
Speaking of which, the "maximum number of cards a player can hold" should be set at 0 (I just tested it; this works), because it's not allowed to save up and play multiple cards at once. (It is allowed to save up a set if you complete it while you have three or four cards in your hand; this cannot be mimicked by WL).

http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TournamentID=2700

The attacker had the advantage.
Id go with 87% attack and 75% defense.

Neutrals started with the same as the players(3).

Maximum number of cards you can hold = 0 (1 could be used, because it was possible to double cash)

Reinforcement card in 9 pieces for 9 armies(minimum 2 pieces per turn weight is 3)
Spy card in 3000 pieces(weight is 1)
3 card pieces per turn
With these card settings some people will cash in 3 turns some in 4 and some in 5 turns.


http://WarLight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?TemplateID=205471

Another way to do cards is 900 pieces 299 per turn. You get your first set after 4 turns than you are on the normal schedule of 1 set per 3 turns.

Ruthless - there are no neutrals in Risk :D

Why the spy card? There is no fog - everyone can see the board.