Risk Day 32 - Welcome To Alaska! Enjoy The....Polar Bears And Ice Fishing?

What a fascinating map. We don't have many buffered territories (I count 2 of them), but our "empire" stretches from Texas, around the west coast, up to Alaska, and back down around New England. This is what you might call a "possibilities map." There's so much we can do....it's just a matter what we want to do.

But more on that in a second. I'd like to take this opportunity to celebrate the biggest prize of last night...Alaska! The Buckeyes have held onto this strategically critical territory for all but 3 turns since Day 7 (and on 2 of those 3 turns their ally Stanford held it). As a reminder, Alaska connects the Washington and Boston College territories, so it serves as the gateway between the Northwest and the Northeast. It is critical both as a means of traveling from one side of the map to the other, and as a buffer for protecting your territories on either side. In other words, this is a BIG deal.

So let's learn a bit about our new hosts....

Alaska was the 49th territory to become a state, joined by Hawaii later the same year (1959). Its state motto is "North to the future," and it boasts the tallest mountain in the USA with Denali, as well as the next 9 tallest mountains in the USA (California's Mount Whitney enters the list at #11). Alaska is also by far our biggest state. It is 1/5th the size of the continental U.S., and it's bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Finally, while polar bears are mostly in the Arctic, there is a population of around 4,700 polar bears in Alaska.

Anyway, back to "possibilities." We've got a lot of them. We're butting up against Texas (hi TAM!), we still control most of the west and touch every OSU territory there, and we also have a bit of a foothold in the Northeast and the easternmost part of the Midwest. We can't get too crazy or, as you guys have noted, we'll stretch ourselves thin and could get seriously hurt, but MAN there are a lot of tantalizing options out there.

You know what that means...we need to keep the momentum going! We had almost 5000 power last night (just a 2-star away) and we still have the most players (though the Buckeyes are closing the gap). Y'all are doing a great job of playing consistently and recruiting your friends and family (I see you MGoParents recruiting your kids....well done), so keep at it and let's fly by 5000 and aim to get to 6000 sooner rather than later. Agreed? Agree. Go Blue!

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