New Gameplay by McCarthVader

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[glossy pike]

Is the only way the flag moves is by a “flag fortify”? (moving only the flag to an adjacent territory at the end of each turn)

Or can the flag be carried with an army that attacks into and takes an enemy’s territory? This attack with the flag option could also be limited to one flag move. So if you made an attack with the flag and then attacked again the flag would have to stay behind and presumably you’d have to split off a considerable number of troops to guard it from capture.

[tidal prism]

Yeah I mean that also sounds good, I wanted to get the base idea out there, I haven't perfected it but I wanted to at least bring it to everyone's mind, I'll do anything I can to have more different types of Risk

[tidal prism]

Might also be better if you can only move the flag the turn after taking the territory

You should have to cap at least 3 territorys away from the flags starting position also

[glossy pike]

Yeah I can see it, the mechanic of your original suggestion might work best.

Once you attain the flag, you have to capture a territory that helps you move the flag in the right direction with a large stack or reinforce a large stack to it (assuming you don’t already have continuous territory connection to the flag’s location) then you move the flag on to this strong position and rinse and repeat until you get the flag step by step back to you capital or someone smashes your “flag stack” to steal the flag 🤣and begin their own flag moving operation.

This game mode is more “safely move the flag back to capital mode” than it is “capture the flag mode” since it seems that capturing the flag is the easy part😂

I think it is a very important choice you made that the neutral bot held location of the flag originally is not a capital or capturing the flag and just holding it there on a strong cap would be a play that could take all the fun and dynamic chaos out of the mode.

[tidal prism]

Yeah it is more safely move it back really because what I wouldn't want to see is someone is connected all the way to the flag right from the get go takes the territory and just wins the game, it has to be a little more difficult.

[glossy pike]

I think it would be a lot more difficult against good players since they would target your connectivity as well as your flag territory.

[tidal prism]

Yeah absolutely, I think it could work as a game mode with a little fine tuning, I think at the very least it deserves a chance and would be more popular I think than zombies.

There is also the fact that if you neglect your cap too much in pursuit of the flag someone could cap steal and you'd have nowhere to take the flag anyway🤣

[glossy pike]

Did you consider not using capitals?

You could just give each player a designated territory to take the flag to in the neutral bot starts with the flag mode.

Or each player’s designated territory could be a flag and anyone wins by capturing a single flag and returning it to their flag. So each player would be playing their own offense but players would be motivated to play group defense to prevent a flag from being returned to any players home territory (aside from their own of course). If your flag was taken you would not be dead you could recapture it or steal someone else’s.

[tidal prism]

I considered caps that work like blizzards to other players other than yourself but I think there has to be more than one winning stipulation or it stalemates as people just push and pull the flag back and forth

[glossy pike]

Victory conditions would be holding your home territory and any two flags on that territory in the mode variant I proposed.

[tidal prism]

There probably could be more than one variation on the settings of this game mode

[tidal prism]

Love that

[glossy pike]

So the simplest route to victory would be to retain your home territory and your original flag and just steal one flag and get it home, but of course it could get way more complicated with multiple steals back and forth.

If the mode is made this way then it could be combined with capitals or world domination or 70% to make a multiple win scenario fiesta.

[tidal prism]

It would encourage stealing, you wouldn't be able to stay passive

[glossy pike]

I’m adding the Risk idea: “Multiple Win Scenario Fiesta” as a new mode combining mode right now ! 🤣