LDS mission rules concerning bedtime

[creekster]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

This is interesting because instead of breaking the morning rules, you guys apparently broke the go to bed rules. No judgments, just observing something that was common my mission, as well. We were often late getting back home....if there was a ward activity or we were teaching or whatever.

Risk was banned in my mission. No joke. Too many fights. Also, too many Bolivians that couldn't figure out the strategy behind the game.

Were you in Bolivia at the same time as Mike Tyson?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by creekster

Were you in Bolivia at the same time as Mike Tyson?

Possible. It's a big country.

[Clark Addison]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

This is interesting because instead of breaking the morning rules, you guys apparently broke the go to bed rules. No judgments, just observing something that was common my mission, as well. We were often late getting back home....if there was a ward activity or we were teaching or whatever.

Risk was banned in my mission. No joke. Too many fights. Also, too many Bolivians that couldn't figure out the strategy behind the game.

Yes. We felt that getting too much sleep was a worse sin than getting not enough. I think that kind of makes sense. And in our defense, it was only on the night before P-Day. Missionaries are odd that way; I lived with a guy who would turn on a Wham! tape every P-Day morning while we were cleaning the apartment, and would get very offended if you suggested he might be breaking the rules (our mission allowed no pop music by closeted homosexuals)

And I believe you about the dangers of Risk. After one heated game, when my companion thought he had been ganged up on, he threw an iron across the room, and not in the soft, gentle way you may be thinking.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by Clark Addison

And I believe you about the dangers of Risk. After one heated game, when my companion thought he had been ganged up on, he threw an iron across the room, and not in the soft, gentle way you may be thinking.

Aren't alliances in Risk the greatest cause of familial violence? My older brother would always get one of my sycophantic sisters to join him in destroying my empires (which were always models of enlightened governance). Those were pretty much the only moments in my life when I have ever become enraged, like Curly in the boxing ring when someone played "Pop Goes the Weasel."

Shortly after my bro received his mission call last year, I thought of ratting him out to the brethren for the treacherous weasel that he is. But then I realized he was about to become scoutmaster for three years in a backward nation, and I decided vengeance was finally mine.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

Aren't alliances in Risk the greatest cause of familial violence? My older brother would always get one of my sycophantic sisters to join him in destroying my empires (which were always models of enlightened governance). Those were pretty much the only moments in my life when I have ever become enraged, like Curly in the boxing ring when someone played "Pop Goes the Weasel."

Shortly after my bro received his mission call last year, I thought of ratting him out to the brethren for the treacherous weasel that he is. But then I realized he was about to become scoutmaster for three years in a backward nation, and I decided vengeance was finally mine.

When playing Risk, I always do 3 things...

1. Always choose black
2. Always start in South America.....fairly easy to defend, decent bonus cards after each round.
3. Most important.....each and every time I occupy a new territory, I use the same line...."And the dark army continues to cover the face of the Earth." It makes little sense, but after a few battles, it really annoys the heck out of everyone.

These strategies have little or no corrolation to my overall success in the game. I am simpy stating that I do them each time.

I also like to give real-time commentary....as in, just after I roll the dice, "And DDD takes yet ANOTHER army..."

I think that if I were ever in real combat, my own troops would go Platoon and kill me.

[Levin]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

When playing Risk, I always do 3 things...

1. Always choose black
2. Always start in South America.....fairly easy to defend, decent bonus cards after each round.
3. Most important.....each and every time I occupy a new territory, I use the same line...."And the dark army continues to cover the face of the Earth." It makes little sense, but after a few battles, it really annoys the heck out of everyone.

These strategies have little or no corrolation to my overall success in the game. I am simpy stating that I do them each time.

I also like to give real-time commentary....as in, just after I roll the dice, "And DDD takes yet ANOTHER army..."

I think that if I were ever in real combat, my own troops would go Platoon and kill me.

I like to start in South America too. If that's not possible, then I usually go for the Blob strategy on the Middle East. Just put all my men there, and sit and pick off a country each time so I get those benefits, and then accumulate and accumulate. Nobody dares attack me, b/c my force is too big for young nation's to attack. So they fight each other, and then by the middle of the game, I'm just huge: a quivering mass of monumental strength, and then I explode into Africa, take that and South America in one fell swoop, fortify the borders, and then play a traditional game from there.

We should play online risk. Or online setters of catan -- an even more addictive game, IMO.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I also like to give real-time commentary....as in, just after I roll the dice, "And DDD takes yet ANOTHER army..."

I think that if I were ever in real combat, my own troops would go Platoon and kill me.

No question if you had been my brother, one of us would not be alive today. And as I envisioni you playing the game, I'm reminded of the epilogue of Animal House when Niedermyer's picture comes up with the tagline, "Fragged by his own men in Vietnam."

[ute4ever]

You nerds should get the Risk II CD-Rom; check your local eBay listings. You can change the settings for example make Australia worth 10 reinforcements, as you then slowly toy with the competition. I laugh at the petty mail room boss in The Secret of My Success for thinking he is God. Ha!! I am God!!

[il Padrino Ute]

Risk was a favorite on my mission as well. The Italian version was different - it allowed the defense to roll the same number of dice as the offense, even if you lacked the sufficient number of armies. Socialism even rears it's ugly head in board games.

No arguments or anything ever really happened during the mission, but in high school, my friends and I finally decided to stop playing Risk because we valued our friendship. The games almost always resulted in fisticuffs.

I haven't played it in about 20+ years. I need to buy that game for my family. It wold be great fun for an FHE activity.

[RockyBalboa]

Risk?!

You pansies...we played FULL court basketball every P-Day.