2nd Legacy War

2nd Legacy War
The 2nd Legacy War, sometimes called the Great Jedi Mind trick, was played on 03MAR13. It was the first war fought on a non-standard Risk board and resulted in Martin's victory.

Deployment
Andy, capitalizing on his prize from the 1st Legacy War, established his head quarters in Russia. Martin and JP set up in the South West Continent and South East Continent, respectively, to attempt to dominate small continents early on for a reinforcement advantage. Dana, trying to use space as a buffer between himself and his prospective enemies, deployed to the frozen waste of Yakutsk.

Conflict
Martin and JP's strategies proved to be effective. However, the notorious success of dominating the South East Continent in all other versions of Risk, brought unwanted attention to JP early on. JP succeeded in capturing the South East Continent, but was quickly ousted by Dana. And so a long and bloody conflict between Dana and JP began. Turn after bloody turn JP would unify the entire South East Continent, only to have Dana counter attack and rob him of his reinforcement bonus. Both sides fought to utter exhaustion. Meanwhile in the west Martin consolidated his position while fighting low intensity brush fire skirmishes with Andy over the South Central Continent. Neither made much of an effort to generally commit against the other. After several turns of quasi build up, Andy launched an offensive to try to wipe out Dana and JP's weakened armies and claim his second victory. His plan proved to be overly ambitious. The offensive lost steam before he was able to wipe out either force. Andy did, however, succeed in spreading himself too thin and further weakening Dana and JP. Martin, with his superior numbers and position, followed up by succeeding where Andy failed and conquered the world.

Prizes
As victor, Martin established the major city of Rio de XKCD in Brazil, anchoring it to the bunker established during the 1st Legacy War. Andy, further consolidating the North Central Continent, built the minor city of Iron City in Great Britain. Dana and JP, left in weak positions from the constant struggle, chose to add coins.