RISK Map

I sometimes get obsessive about looking at my web traffic statistics. It’s fun to see how many hits your site gets, and what states and countries they are from.

Recently, my agent and UK publisher talked up The Painted Man at London Book Fair, which got us some international attention. Not long after, we sent out a batch of .pdfs of the manuscript to international publishers, which sparked a lot of web traffic throughout the world.

So I was looking at the world map, which shows where visitors come from in familiar google maps style, and I realized something.

If this was a RISK game, I would be kicking ass. Check it out:

Note how I not only have armies in Australia, but also bases in the gateway countries in Asia. You can see a path up from there to Europe, where I have a pretty firm grip, not to mention the US and Canada, which pretty much locks up North America. That means I would be pulling 2 armies each turn for Australia, 5 for Europe, and soon another 5 for North America. And that’s not even counting the armies for countries and turning in cards.If only my real RISK games went this well…

Posted on May 16, 2008 at 1:54 pm by PeatB
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3 responses to “RISK Map”

  1. Austrailia is key. At least that’s what Hurley said on Lost…

    Posted by matt, on May 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  2. I see that you’re wisely not wasting any troops trying to hold Asia. The 7 extra armies per turn would come in handy, but we all know Asia’s a ghost. With so many borders to defend, it spreads your forces paper thin.

    Posted by Myke, on May 16th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

  3. He’ll get Asia too, and then we’ll get that sweet “Super Tattoo Demon Killer #1” manga series.

    Posted by matt, on May 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm