HaHa, ya by the look of the "Status before the third round of play" he dose seam to have a very good position to take out N. America with his 8 armies. Hmmm.... perhaps that is how you died? And by reading the other posts he secured his African borders it seams.
I secured my African borders, but then Mario, John and Bruce ganged up and started hammering me so I didn't hold them for long. Fortunately, my getting enough cards to make a set coincided with John wasting the rest of his armies attacking Venezuela, so I abandoned Africa, used the troops I had remaining in that continent to fortify Brazil, then used my new trade-in troops to advance through North America.
Once I'd wiped out all of John's positions I got his cards which I was able to trade for enough armies to conquer the rest of North America and to secure my borders afterwards.
That is the one problem of winning from the very start. Reminds me of a game of risk I played
My sister on her first turn takes S. America and Africa, I take Australia, and my dad gets Europe. So my sister is in the lead and try’s to take N. America while my dad and I are in a mutual agreement. So then I take Asia get my gained troops and a card set and Blast into Africa and take all of them except for one. I think I was getting the upper hand in that fight (But if you ever play any game with my sister that lasts longer than ½ a hour you are never gonna finish it).
So it is sort of dangerous to get the upper hand from the start
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Once I'd wiped out all of John's positions I got his cards which I was able to trade for enough armies to conquer the rest of North America and to secure my borders afterwards.
My sister on her first turn takes S. America and Africa, I take Australia, and my dad gets Europe. So my sister is in the lead and try’s to take N. America while my dad and I are in a mutual agreement. So then I take Asia get my gained troops and a card set and Blast into Africa and take all of them except for one. I think I was getting the upper hand in that fight (But if you ever play any game with my sister that lasts longer than ½ a hour you are never gonna finish it).
So it is sort of dangerous to get the upper hand from the start
I'd love to get game of OBF Lux going though.
I don't know, just an idea.
see if that works
After all, someone needs to scrub the toilets.