Risk Strike

On your turn, first draw two cards: two continent cards, two tactics cards, or one of each. Continent cards can come from the deck or from the surrendered cards. Then either pass, which earns you one more tactics card, or attack. You may attack only once a turn.

To attack, name a continent you hold cards of and an opponent's continent to attack: the same continent or one connected to it on the reference card's map (Africa can attack Africa, South America, Europe or Asia, but not North America or Australia). Both sides may then play troop cards, and the other players may join in on either side. The attacker rolls one red die for each attacking continent card and troop card, up to three; the defender rolls black dice the same way, up to two. Compare the highest dice in pairs, with ties going to the defender. The loser of each pair discards a troop card or, if they have none, gives up a continent card: the defender hands it to the attacker, and the attacker surrenders it to the middle. You can keep rolling until the defender runs out of cards or you choose to stop.

Each continent card shows a domination number. Once you have collected that many cards of one continent, take its domination coin, even from another player, and keep it until someone else reaches the number. The first player with two coins wins. Tactics cards add the twists: Bombard turns any die into a 6, Rally adds 2 to each of your dice, Sabotage stops a battle, Spy lets you look at a player's cards, Artillery forces discards and Canceled Orders cancels another tactics card.

Tip: because other players can add troops to either side, it pays to keep a few troop cards for the battles that decide a coin, and to help whoever is attacking the leader.