Oops! I forgot about the other half of my intention in raising this post. I have edited the header post accordingly.

I think one major drawback to it all, is that certain areas would become 'fortresses', nearly impossible to take, and if someone kept building up an army there, could be an ...

Some positions should be more defensible than others, or special type of terrain should not simply block movement or allow one way. This would be true for walls, too.

So, if we wanted to similate Hadrian's crossing of the Alps, then perhaps if someone attacks over the mountains in a map, it can ...

It's politics, get over it.

Risk is not merely about being the most dominant player, but playing your political cards well.

Why did Milan survive so many hundreds of years in the Italian peninsula (before finally being annexed in reunification in the 1800s), when it was one of the most ...

Yes, you can have true randomness.

But you need quantum computers for that.

Game 6149, it looks as though these two, dugcarr1 and Iggy, have some sort of secret alliance they haven't declared.

Now, it's only round 2, but I am suspicious because these are playing within minutes of each other, first time it was two minutes, this time it was ten, they aren't really ...

Breaking a treaty *is* not having poor etiquette. Rather, it's being ruthless.

It's not frowned upon, although it has its repercussions.