The battle raged on. People were dying all around us. It became impossible to tell who was winning. All I saw was bloodshed. Mikaela and I had fortified our troops around the opening to Australia and were strengthening our numbers to make a move on Asia. Seth and Michael’s armies were failing miserably, but we held true to our alliance if for no other reason than they made a decent human shield between us and Blair and Emily’s troops. Spencer and Rachel had largely ignored us up to this point due to our primarily defensive strategy, but they were starting to notice us once we added a couple tanks to our frontlines. Blair and Emily were surrounded in Europe and the only thing protecting them was their alliance with Spencer and Rachel and Hunter and Meredith.
We could sense from our communications that Hunter and Meredith were wary of their alliance. They were stuck in a position where they could only attack us without breaking their alliance. The writing was on the wall. Eventually Spencer and Rachel would attack them or vice versa. At New Year’s, a temporary cease-fire was called to welcome 2014, but tensions ran high. This was when a new alliance was forged. We encouraged them to break their alliance and attack Blair and Emily along with Seth and Michael and us. We had no entry points into Europe so this alliance was in our best interest. Blair and Emily would be wiped off the map and likely take Seth and Michael with them, plus Hunter and Meredith would deplete their troops as well.
All was going according to plan until Seth and Michael decided to do a last ditch power play for control of Europe by attacking us. They failed to eliminate Blair and Emily and we were forced to wipe out their forces completely. Hunter and Meredith finished off Blair and Emily leading to Europe being partially controlled by both of our armies. Naturally our alliance with Meredith and Hunter was destined to crumble at this point. They realized that we were the bigger threat than Spencer and Rachel, especially with our reinforcements set to arrive within the hour. They re-allied themselves with Spencer and Rachel who were determined to bring us down at any cost, even if it meant destroying themselves.
This is where Mikaela and I made our first and fatal tactical mistake of the war. We had spread ourselves far too thin to take out Europe due to Seth and Michael’s foolish attack and we made some errors with placement of our reinforcements. That is when Spencer and Rachel started their attack. We had the greater numbers, but luck was not on our side that day. They burst through our troops in Russia and China with minimal losses on their side. We had fortified the perimeters of our territories, but left the other countries relatively unguarded. This gave them basically an open path through our territories. Meanwhile, Meredith and Hunter were attacking us from Africa and chipping away at our forces. Our final stand was in Australia. All hope was lost, the reinforcements were too late and Spencer and Rachel destroyed us. Meredith and Hunter were able to wipe out their heavily depleted forces and conquer the world. We were able to walk away from that game of Risk with our lives, but the memories of that 7 hour game with haunt us forever.
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