From Indiana to Colorado, There's a Blue Caravan Headed West And It's GLORIOUS! - Risk Day 8
Yesterday was an extremely successful day. We won the majority of our highest leverage territories and overall finished with 14 territories, 1.2 territories over the expected result. We're in the midst of a battle with Nebraska with help from Wisconsin, Chaos, and maybe Stanford (It's unclear if Stanford and Nebraska are allies or not at this point). You can tell we're winning the battle, and Nebraska is on the verge of collapse with 4 separate enemies knocking at their door. So keep up the good work and continue to participate! We need all of the help we can get. Over the last few days we've narrowed the gap in player participation with A&M but still lag behind by about 80 players.
We have a non-aggression pact with Wisconsin. It’s very important that if you are playing do not attack Wisconsin owned territories, including the ones in Michigan. If you receive an order to attack a Wisconsin owned territory then it is because we have communicated with Wisconsin on that territory. If you have any questions about an order, then please DM us privately on reddit or discord.
How Does the Game Work?
On turn 1, each team starts with their home territory. It is up to each team to recruit players and coordinate moves. You can choose to defend any territory that your team currently holds or attack any adjacent territory. A "roll" happens each evening at 11 PM EST to calculate which teams have won which territories that turn based on the moves that were made by individual players. The ultimate goal is to conquer as much of the map as possible for your team. There are a number of different ways to do this, such as through recruiting players in sheer numbers or forming alliances with other teams.
Steps To Play Every Day:
- Sign up for a reddit.com account if you don’t have one already
- Visit 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 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)
Links for Discussion of the Game
- Reddit.com/r/collegefootballrisk is the general subreddit for the game as a whole.
- We have a discord server for specific discussion regarding strategy and also general discussion of Michigan sports. Follow this link https://discord.gg/4qMVeH and complete the vetting form that is sent to you when you join the server.
March 30th, 2020 at 11:28 AM ^
Finally a 2 star. Not sure why it took so long as I have been playing since the first season.
March 30th, 2020 at 11:38 AM ^
Pretty much the same here but still a 1-star. Don't know why.
March 30th, 2020 at 12:15 PM ^
There are 5 categories, your rank is median of those 5.
Two of them youll likely never get above 1*.
The other 3:
- Total turns played across all rounds of College Football Risk (including the reddit version)
- One star - 0 total turns played
- Two stars - 10 total turns played
- Three stars - 25 total turns played
- Four stars - 50 total turns played
- Five stars - 100 total turns played
- Turns played during the current round of College Football Risk
- One star - 0 turns played this round
- Two stars - 5 turns played this round
- Three stars - 10 turns played this round
- Four stars - 25 turns played this round
- Five stars - 50 turns played this round
- Streak of consecutive turns played
- One star - 0 consecutive turns played
- Two stars - 3 consecutive turns played
- Three stars - 5 consecutive turns played
- Four stars - 10 consecutive turns played
- Five stars - 25 consecutive turns played
March 30th, 2020 at 12:33 PM ^
this makes alot more sense now. thank you. I should be climbing up the ranks pretty quickly then.
March 30th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
i dont know what this is but i like it
When will we take back Ann Arbor and the state of MI? When we were in alliance with WI, I was cool about it but OSU has been moving north into southern MI.
thanks for rescuing the Colorado front range (CSU territory)!
Not feeling great about Ohio's hold on the NE, but other than that, like our position and alignment with Wisky.
This year they connected Alaska and Maine as well as Florida and Hawaii as a portal to the opposite coast. Nice addition!
Have there been any discussions with Georgia Tech? Seems like that will be needed to confront OSU and TAM.
Can someone explain what "Territory Power" is?
I've been able to reverse engineer how "Team Power" is calculated but not "Territory Power".
Also, if say both we and Wisconsin attack a Nebraska territory what is the order of operations there? Like does Nebraska just need to win each battle head to head, or does us dinging down some of their forces but losing the battle make it easier for wisconsin to take the territory?
Territory power is just the overall amount of stars that was sent to that territory.
There is no order of operations. The winner of the territories is just an random draw, there are now individual battles that take place.
The only caveat is that team's defending a territory they own get a 1.5 multiplier.
So let's say Wisconsin sends 40 stars at Nebraska, Michigan sends 40, and Nebraska defends with 80.
The territory power would be 200 (40+40+80*1.5). Michigan and Wisconsin's odds of winning that territory would be 20% (40/200). Nebraska's odds of winning that territory would be 60% (80*1.5/200).
Wonderful! Thanks for the explanation :-)
Playing this is easier than navigating this board most days. And the points count!
What are you waiting for?
Some see from that picture a blue blob that is growing from sea to shining sea.
Others see the equivalent of Custers last stand with Blue surrounded by a sea of red.