31st
I played the new version of Risk tonight. Same board, same basic rules and gameplay, a few twists.
1. There are cities and capitols - the cities are randomly distributed and give you a territory bonus for the draft, while you need to control your own capitol to win and you can get bonus points for controlling enemy capitols.
2. You can still play in world domination mode, but you can also play an objective based game - there are 8 objectives on the board (like Control Asia, Control 18 territories, Capture 10 territories in 1 turn, etc), each with a certain bonus (Guaranteed Card, Attack die [allows a reroll], Extra Maneuver, etc.). 3 objectives to win.
There is a third gameplay mode but we didn’t try it.
In any case, it was my second game of Risk ever. In the first one it was down to me and Miles, and I threatened to never speak to him again for beating me. In this one we were playing with 3 others we didn’t know well, and despite the fact that one of them was a 17 year old arrogant little you-know-what, I won, and left the event without punching him.
(We also went to the county fair before playing board games…mostly looked at awesome horses and chickens and baby ducks)