CFB Risk Day 39 - Caribbean = Columbus (6 Turns Left)
CliffsNotes Instructions
(1) If you want an order aligned with Michigan’s current battle plan before you attack/defend, go to Michigan Risk Central Command. You'll (usually) get a few options to choose from.
(2) If you insist on doing your own thing, head over to CFB Risk and attack Ohio State, especially in the Caribbean and along the east coast.
It's Hate Week Once Again
Yesterday was very good to us. We finally broke into Mexico (again), and we took some of SoCal as well. The end result? TAMU has ZERO regions. We nerfed them.
Ohio State, on the other hand, is still a giant threat. We weren't able to break into the Caribbean last night, which means that (1) OSU is still buffed and (2) they have nearly a dozen protected territories.
Once we break into the Caribbean, it's game over.
The Bucknuts know this, and they are going to do everything they can to keep us out. The Caribbean is the new Columbus and, just like the football team, we need to go there and grind them down.
Every turn from here to the finish line is about continuing to pepper the east coast while working to punch a hole into the Caribbean. Then we can pull a Don and sprint to the endzone.
Also, remember that we're only in this position BECAUSE OF YOU. We have by far the biggest army in the game, and it's been like that the whole way through (other than Bot Night). We had 1164 of you last night, and we know we can get over 1200.
So let the hate flow, and let's ride it to victory.
Go Blue and Screw the Bucknuts!
Map Below
Hurdle the Fools, Beat Ohio!
How does chaos have 4 players yet 7 territories?
Their team is 90% mercs, not people who started with Chaos as their primary team
What happened to the Death Star?
A change to our strategic plan, smart people who understand statistics and math, better recruiting and player development. In a nutshell, the Michigan Difference. One fun thing to note is that our mercenaries from Texas were MVPs of Austin and College Station yesterday. A tip of the cap to our Texan pals with a maize longhorn over those territories. Hook 'em and Hail!
It's nice to see Bama and Tennessee as pathetic and weak. Small, almost invisible entities that remain neutral despite the missiles flying over and around them like modern Switzerlands.
False sense of security. Someone found the ventilation shaft and sent in a perfect shot to destroy it. All hope was lost.
I'm still miffed that no one other than Michigan seems to care that OSU used bots to get themselves into this position. They should have a permanent multiplier of 0.25 applied to all rolls in perpetuity.
Nah, OSU's Turn 25 (and then Turn 26 after the anti-bot stuff was turned on) are perrrrrfectly legitimate.
Seems like a good time to let OSU hold the Caribbean and wreck them everywhere else. Let them use all their resources to hold their region while we attack elsewhere. We might even be able to pick up a region no one is expecting us to.
The region bonus is 1.5X power. With a region bonus OSU can compete with us. Without that they become fools about to be hurdled.
As the team with the largest power our prime directive is to remove and prevent any bonuses, especially for undeserving oxygen thieves.
Understand the logic. My thought is if they use all their resources to keep us out of the Caribbean while we use our resources to defeat them everywhere else (and potentially take our own region), we could turn our 1 territory lead into a big lead they couldn't come back from.
Seems the only way we can lose is if we put all our resources into taking the Caribbean and don't get in.
You are absolutely right, but AFAIK this isn't happening. Those that use the order page are directed to cover the "everywhere" part of the map. That's quite a significant number of players. One thing the orders page is very concerned about is making sure there is pressure on every place where either TAMU or OSU might luck into another region (where they only need to win 2 or 3 more territories).
Those that prefer to make their own move, another critical element to the Blue army, are guided toward certain high-impact areas, and generally behave as if they dislike the colors scarlet and grey anyway.
Whatever your personal approach, making any move is a good move. Every. Player. Counts.
But if they simply hold, and we attack everywhere else, maybe we can pick up 2 region bonuses while they just hold onto 1, is what he is thinking, i believe.
That was tried and we lost. Cfb risk rules are not risk rules. There's a strong random component to the results. It turns out the best way to run it, unless you can have a bunch of protected territories, which we don't have, is to attack as much as possible
Does six turns left imply we only need to endure six more message board posts about this?
Naw, man, we'll be posting graphics about this until we torch the Bucknuts next Risk season.
Of course, you do have the option to ignore the posts and let the rest of have our fun.
Hey eat shit buddy.
Unless you're clicking on every post on the Board, I don't see why you should care at all.
The great thing about a message board is that you can choose which topics get your time and energy.
Endure? You poor, poor, soul.
Thoughts and prayers man.
I agree with echoWhiskey. We don't need an update every day. Or any day at this point.
This daily update is really important to a tiny number of people here. I know you think we all care. But we don't.
This "ignore it" stuff is ridiculous. Every time there's a random shitpost, it gets called out and the OP gets lambasted and usually it gets removed. Why is this no different?
Don't let the extreme fervor of the 20 of you who are into this delude yourselves into believing this needs to be posted on the board EVERY DAY. No one else (translate: 99% of the people on the board) cares.
Just go play your little game and stop wasting space with daily friggin updates on the Board.
Okay, cool. Hook 'em!
You should probably fact check the your 99% claim big shooter...Imjesayin. 6 turns left and you finally step to the pulpit? Let it ride just don't click.
I mean there are roughly 1200 UM players on the game. Not all are on MGoBlog, but I'd bet a fair sum that that number is well north of 20. Additionally, this content was given the green light by site leaders, some of whom are playing.
Every time I post, we see an immediate uptick in people going to the Orders website.
I had trouble believing that more than a few MGoBloggers would care, but the proof seems to be in the pudding.
Hey eat shit buddy.
RIP Keith Jackson.
tl:dr, but you're a sad, pathetic little man. We're not getting off your lawn. In fact, we won't even clean up after our dogs are done using it.
There are 1200 people playing and 99% of them are MGoBlog readers.
See, I can use made up statistics to refute your made up statistics.
My gawd just ignore the fucking thing if you don't like it.
On the other hand, maybe you could eat a bag of dicks
Where did you find this gif of my ex-wife?
(Not joking, sadly)
Since it is very apparent that you do not partake in the game, here is a snap shot of the leaderboard (also stated in every thread). But there are over 1200 players involved. 1200>>>>>>>>>20.
And make no mistake, this daily update is a very strategic and very important part of the game. So stop being a Wendy Whiner, don't click on the thread, and go to bed...
Neg away, baby bitches. There's tens of thousands of people on this Board. You claim 1200 are playing this stupid game. Relatively speaking, no one gives a shit about this dumb fucking game you all circle jerk off to every day with each other. And of that 1200, it's a lot less who actually frequent this Board.
It's a daily shit post that can't go away soon enough. If you disagree, then stop trashing any future shit posts. Otherwise, there is no standard to what constitutes a shitpost that gets negged except your own personal subjective opinion.
Had to go out of my way to log in just so I could neg this stupidity. I’m glad I was able to endure it.
Ok, so you won't give up the ship yet. You realize that you are only reinforcing your sad "Me first" mentality (I believe its called "Woke" now). That somehow, you single opinion is sooooooooooo important that you have to keep coming on here to trash people on this post.
Your like that MORON that runs naked on a football/baseball field feeling all cool and self important. Meanwhile everyone in the stands are either a) laughing at your stupidity; b) Shaking their heads in pity at you; c) irritated as all get out because you insist that you matter more than everyone else
For the record, I ACTUALLY IGNORE posts that I have no interest in. Maybe you should heed that advice....
The tiny enraged monkey caromed about his enclosure with primal abandon.
The world outside frightened and confused him. Hate. Hate.
Ceaselessly he screeched into the dark.
Angar filled him. Angar drove him.
His tiny fists, caked in his own feces, scooped fresh dung and with a simian rage, hurled it indiscriminately into the void beyond his cage. Like so many times before.
How much softer/weaker can you possibly be?
Did you actually just use the term "endure" to describe scrolling past a post on a forum and NOT clicking on it? In what is only just above the most dead period in Michigan athletics to boot?
Were I a mod, and this is one reason among many good ones that I'm not, I would change your user name to something like; mgo_princess_pea, draMa_queen, HailtotheVictim, etc.
Look, I know commenting on a post about something I find inane is going to elicit the response it got. And I'll take the negs. But the daily (sometimes more) updates are kinda ridiculous to the large percentage of the board who aren't interested. Couldn't it be combined into one thread?
Combining it into one thread would defeat the purpose once it is off the front page after a day.
One of the primary reasons it is here is as a reminder to the MANY people on here who play (at minimum in the multiple of hundreds, including many staff/mods who blessed this content specifically). Other reasons to be new/bumped daily:
- Provides the results of the last roll/turn and an update on our status to the MANY people on here who play (at minimum in the multiple of hundreds, including many on the site staff/mods who blessed this content specifically), but may not be on/go to the discord channel to know what happened. Without these posts and their commentary they would just see the overall map and not have much context to what changed, whether it was good or bad, and how it would advise future moves.......bringing us to our next reason,
- Advises on the daily strategy and where to best apply their move, and point them to where they can select/get a more specific move to optimize impact across all M players
- Recruits new players, urges current players to recruit new players...more players better for game
- I'll also guess that on some level, perhaps small, it helps boost traffic to the site and benefits in perhaps some small way the people that run it.
There has been one day with an additional post due to extenuating circumstances that I recall.
So no....combining the posts completely defeats the purpose.
Food for thought, the game runs for 45 days, which means the sum total of your time involved is about 2 seconds in total, if you count clicking in the first post to see what it is all about (1.5 seconds) and then, having decided it is not for you, the tiniest fraction of a second as you "endure" scanning past the daily entry and pay it close to zero attention.
[45 dailies + 1 extra post] x 0.0108695652173913 of a second of endurance = 2 seconds
The time you took to click in and attempt to spoil it for those involved was likely 10-20x that......and all just to be a killjoy.
Here's another way to look at it.......
You're sitting on a hill in a park....say Hampstead Heath in London. It is an absolutely beautiful Spring day and the view all around you is nothing but gardens, meadows, and forests, all laid out before you beneath a flawless azure sky, with only the very occasional puffy cloud drifting in its midst. Inside the park there are many things to do, like nature trails, museums, walking tours, food stands, bike rentals, restaurants, swimming ponds, hell there's even a movie theater for those rainy days. Maybe you even brought a picnic. Mr. Echo, on this and every day you can go to this park, the world is your oyster.
You could spend days, maybe even weeks, exploring the things you like and trying some of the things that you aren't so sure about and be perfectly content. You could find only three things you absolutely love to do and simply focus on those for the rest of eternity and find peace. But no. You can't do that, because for some reason, off in the distance and in the periphery of your vision, there is a Fair going on......and that Fair is really bothering you.
It has a sign that says "Welcome!" and everyone inside is having a GREAT time. For some reason, you can't stand this. "Why is the Fair here?" you ask yourself. "In this park, MY park?" Never mind that they have a permit to be there. Never mind that the Fair is free, or that it only runs 45.1 days during Spring when visitor numbers are lower. Ignore the fact that it doesn't block or hinder access to any portion of the park, or that is isn't even very noticeable...in fact if you swivel your head you can still look at 350 degrees of your surroundings and not even see it. It would be so easy to just ignore it. To focus on all the parts of the Heath that you know and love, but for some reason you can't do that. There on the hill, you forget about the day and the park and continue to ruminate, "Not everyone who comes to the park goes to the Fair, so why does it exist? Can't they just do it one day instead of 45.1? Why must I ENDURE this Fair in MY park? Hasn't it already wasted almost 2 seconds of my time just looking at it?" You decide this cannot stand! YOU are man of action (after all, aren't you the one that always shouted at the soccer players on the few occasions they showed up, letting them know JUST HOW MUCH you DIDN'T appreciate them and their sport?) and that you are going to spend some of your precious time doing something about it!
You stand up, march over to the Fair and stomp through the gates. For a few moments, you look around at all the people enjoying themselves, but then shout so all can hear, "I DON'T LIKE FAIRS!!!! NOT EVERYONE LIKES FAIRS!!! LOOK AROUND, YOU.....MANY PEOPLE WHO VISIT THE PARK DON'T EVEN COME IN HERE, YOU ARE BAD AND SHOULD GO!!!!!! I AM ENDURING YOUR PRESENCE HERE!!! DON'T ASK ME HOW, BUT YOU ARE RUINING THE PARK FOR ME!!!" The Fair goers pause momentarily, staring confusedly at this little man who has come to tell them that he doesn't like Fairs, wondering why he would do something so asinine. A murmur goes through the crowd and phrases like "why come here then?" and "so what?" can be heard. A few people throw popcorn and rotten fruit, but the little man is determined and continues, "NO REALLY, I MEAN IT. CAN'T YOU JUST HAVE THE FAIR TODAY AND THAT BE IT? IT IS RIDICULOUS TO HAVE IT EVERY DAY, ISN'T IT? I DON'T LIKE IT. I ENDURE YOU."
Sadly for the little man, no one listens and the people simply ignore him and go back to enjoying themselves. It would seem that his opinion on Fairs is completely unimportant to the rest of the world and that nothing is going to come from his little scene. Nothing will change, but he draws some amount of satisfaction knowing that everyone bearing witness to his statement now knows how much he doesn't like Fairs and maybe THAT will detract, even a little bit, from how much they can enjoy them. He isn't a killjoy, he tells himself, he just wants everything to be the way he wants it and all the people should just understand that.
[yes, it is a VERY slow day at work]
This is way to long to read but I'll upvote you anyway because I bet 99% of us will agree with 99% of this.
I thought that the first time, as I scrolled by and gave the upvote.
Then another fan said in another context that it was a great read, so I took the time to come back and read it.
Glad I did. It's such a good analogy of so much that is done in so many contexts—especially virtual contexts.
Not only was the comment very entertaining, but I might actually be a slightly better person for having read it.
A perfect example. Bravo.
That was
Put this freaking post in the Mgo Hall of Fame. Well done, my friend!
So don't read shit you don't want to read. I don't get this.