stackyFACTSAmassing a giant army and charging into a territory feels powerful until sheer statistics humiliate you.
Amassing a giant army and charging into a territory feels powerful until sheer statistics humiliate you. In the rules of Risk, when there is a tie on the dice rolls, the defending player always wins. Because of this baked-in structural advantage, mathematical probability dictates that an attacker needs significantly more troops than the defender to have even a slightly reliable chance of actually conquering the territory.
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