Risk Factions: How to Dominate the Battlefield

When it comes to playing Risk Factions, understanding how to effectively use your troops is crucial for success. Since you're limited by the number of troops you can generate over time back at your Base, finding ways to turn the tide of battle in your favor is essential.

One way to do this is through the use of special bonuses offered by certain factions in the game. For example, The Book of the Dead allows Zombie troops to regenerate after dying in battle, giving you a significant advantage. These bonuses can provide boosts to individual dice rolls, give you extra dice to roll, and more.

To begin with, it's best to focus on attacking territories that have fewer troops than yours. As you eliminate your enemies piece by piece, you'll gain access to special weapons like the Donkey Cannon, which can be a game-changer in battle.

You can continue attacking as many territories as you'd like in a single turn, so long as you have the troops available to do so. For each dice roll that has a higher number than your opponent, you knock out a single troop in the enemy army, and vice versa (ties are in favor of the defender).

Once you feel a particular territory has enough troops to attack, you can simply click on another territory to attack it through the roll of the dice. Attackers will typically roll three dice per turn, while defenders roll only two.

These extra troops can be won by completing missions or as rewards for winning matches, but are more readily available through training buildings back in your Base. Starting troop formations are randomized for each game's four players, and it will then be up to you to take over the entire map by wiping out the three opposing armies.

Each territory on the map requires at least one troop to maintain, but you'll be allowed to move troops across territories once per turn, and add new troops to your formations from your own personal supply. The game's maps are both literal and creative, with a shrunken Earth being your starting playground.

In Risk Factions, players begin with just the Human character type, or Faction, and can immediately take to the battlefield against zombies and cats. With the game's closed beta now available, it's clear that EA / Playfish has brought a new level of excitement to the classic Risk formula.

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