Risk! (Risiko! in italian) Master edition represents, since FutuRisk’s release in 1992, the most complex and interesting evolution of the game ever published. Its development was heavily influenced from suggestions made by thousands of Risiko! lovers worldwide, and the results are really, really interesting.

This is not only the most “scenographic” edition, but owns a great strategic level, incredibly complex and strong until the end.

The gaming board can be mounted, assembling together six different ”squares” from a set of 12: this allows to build up an infinity of games.

All Risk! Master players have the same abilities: they must conquer two squares and half of all the territories available in the game. Fighting rules are the same of other Risk! Versions, and they can vary if you use Standard, Expert, Tournament or Master rules.

What’s really new is the Master’s production points feature: when it’s your turn to add tanks to territories, if you don’t have at least a production point (that you can buy for the equivalent of three tanks) in a single territory, you can’t put more than one tank in that territory; this means that you will not be able to charge quickly a single territory with tanks until you don’t build a production point in that territory. This is a wonderful feature to improve game’s strategy, and it’s also very beautiful and suggestive to see, as production points are represented by semispheric transparent plastic miniatures, giving the game’s cities an interesting 3d .

Risk! Master edition gives every player its own coloured dices (purple player has purple dices, yellow player has yellow dices, etc.), adding even more personality.

The game includes a classic card system, when you make a tris you can change cards with a number tanks depending from the combination; cards are not used, like in precedent versions, to assign territories to players: in facts, at game start, players assign tanks to territories in order, turn by turn, square after square, until the whole world is covered.

I playied this game for hours and hours, and I’m never tired of playing it.

It’s simply great. If you can find it or an equivalent edition in your country (I own the italian version, and I’m not sure it’s published elsewhere), and you are a Risk! lover, just don’t miss it.