Risk, But with NUCLEAR WEAPONS | House Rules

[@Ikonicre_Moonshield]

Dom gets a hold of nuclear weapons. North America is destroyed completely. Checks out....

[@itiscujo]

This was Comrade Dom's plan from beginning.

[@Icemansam44]

They’re older codes sir but they still check out.

[@Halinn]

@@itiscujoYou can tell because Russia still stands strong

[@mattclemson]

"We've discovered that every single nuclear warhead happened to land directly on the house of someone who posted on the internet about... The Landlord's Game?"

[@drumstick74]

...and when it was all gone, he muttered, "Good Riddance!" 😅

[@thewraith255]

Ah, because if there was one thing that Dom needed, it was the nuclear launch codes.

[@57thorns]

Dom might need them, everyone else really does not need him to have them.

[@poilboiler]

You wouldn't want them falling into the wrong hands do you?

[@isaiah3613]

Dun dun dom!

[@Icemansam44]

It’s an older code sir, but it still checks out.

[@jackwilliamtaylor5656]

Given that the American briefcase that contains the codes is called the Football, and is always handcuffed to a government official, I'm imagining that Dom just has them written on Sully's back and carries him around like a filofax

[@buckysinister]

So... Even if you destroy at least one country every round, Risk STILL takes over an hour to play. Amazing.

[@beningram1811]

And that’s *with* speeding up the counting between every round.

[@maniacturtle]

In the online game Risk: World Domination there's a few different styles, lots of different maps, and some games take only 10 to 15 minutes because you can use a blitz function or you can choose to manually roll.

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

Thats down from the usual 8 or so…

[@keithparker1346]

I'm not seeing the criticism as many modern games take far longer but I guess it's modern gamers liking to diss older games

[@RenewedRS]

​@keithparker1346 wait what modern games take longer while being equally or less complex than Risk? 😂 you made that up

[@hand_of_saxon9616]

"I got so excited about Argentina, I forgot to place my troops!" I see Dom is playing as Maggie Thatcher again

[@shaeisgae8952]

​@@danstratyt Monopoly: God save the queen rules. It's like monopoly Roman rules except every round Dom dies and plays a new character and everyone has to pay half of their savings into the bank for the monarchs funeral.

[@the_bandcamp_one]

​@@shaeisgae8952you can't forget the other half for the new one's coronation

[@LoyalandTrue.]

Please do some research. We won, you aren't getting them back. GSTK.

[@ryanlutes9833]

Whether he's winning or losing, Dom always becomes more unhinged the longer a game goes on

[@livedandletdie]

It doesn't matter if he's playing or not, the longer a game goes on, he becomes more and more unhinged, but he also starts pretty unhinged.

[@TallDarknGruesome]

@@livedandletdie I don't think I have ever seen Dom hinged, is there an older episode you can refer to where his marbles are still intact?

[@redringaming3017]

@@TallDarknGruesome I believe this man was born without any marbles to begin with.

[@danielkoehler2817]

As a Canadian, I find it incredibly funny that for at least 15 minutes, there was a brutal long war between Ontario and Quebec. Sounds like home.

[@danielkoehler2817]

Update: Quebec won…

[@DasGanon]

That one guy who shows up to every leaf game in the away sweater is overjoyed.

[@danielkoehler2817]

Update 2: The neutral’s take no prisoners, mes amis. C’est la gare

[@dechair3113]

At least we outlasted (god forgive me for uttering this word) Alberta

[@SquallLionhart409]

@@DasGanon I remember always seeing a guy with season tickets wearing a jersey with the nameplate saying "Leafs Suck" for years. I would understand if we were in Montreal, but we aren't even in Canada. It was the end of an era when the jersey was retired in commiseration for both of our teams sucking. We somehow have won more FOUR times as many playoff series post lockout, despite having the longest playoff drought in NHL history compared to the Leafs being in the postseason every year since 2017.

[@CDNChaoZ]

The higher Dom's blood pressure rises, the more fun the audience has.

[@CommissarMitch]

Here is a fun thing: Diplomacy but you have to honour every deal you make.

[@MultiClassGeek]

Diplomacy, with no hidden comms

[@alexanderv9136]

This can produce a whole series from one game)

[@happyguy333]

This would be brilliant!

[@nicholasvandervelden450]

@@MultiClassGeekThat's just Wilson rules

[@CommissarMitch]

Sully and Dom work so well together as they are both capable of following any "Yes and..."

[@josephschultz3301]

Dom's unflinching, vehement hatred towards his _best friend_ will never cease to be utterly hilarious

[@aidanlaudersmith4730]

The vibe of these two is two fun, divorced dads

[@ChickenNugNugz2]

Speed running the mid life crisis 😂

[@PaulRudd1941]

You would like Audio Opera.

[@15sherpinski]

Bad news: Sully has found the nuclear codes. Good news: Sully still can't read

[@adaelion3772]

Bad news, they are numbers, and he can count.... to 9.

[@mikebliss3153]

"This isn't sadness, Sullivan. This is fury. This is radioactive anger. This is nuclear rage."

[@randomshotz13]

"This isn't sadness Sullivan. This is fury. This is anger. This is radioactive angst. This is nuclear rage."

[@stickworldmayor]

I like to think that the neutrals are not bombing themselves but instead they are so crazy they forgot safety protocols and the missles blew up on the launchers

[@57thorns]

Love how (at least during the first 25 minutes) they are losing territories faster than they can gain them. Thermonuclear war in a nutshell.

[@57thorns]

31:38 From Argentina (not) being the end of the world (well, they kind of share that honor with Chile, considering the southern point of South America) and human footballer steaks(?) to baked Alaska.

[@whocares2277]

Lots of questionable decisions there, especially from Dom - attacking with a disadvantage for no reason, bashing neutrals for no reason, or not taking easy territories in Asia.

[@KevinWeirG2]

Immediately creating a rivalry between the editors is a bold new direction in content creation.

[@joshuadbrodie]

Full plastic jacket really got me

[@Ali-ey9sz]

I do love how Sullivan's laugh always seems to cause him great pain, but he's also always laughing.

[@AKKK1182]

"Risk, But with BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS" where you mix Risk with Pandemic

[@MrSnowmanFR]

Long live the Dommunist Party

[@littlenikke]

As a Canadian who has played lots of Risk, my favourite game was a random game at grad school, a peak Risk game where I knew no one. Me and one other player, we had never met before, were from Canada. Me from the Prairies, them from the east coast. Maybe 10 words were exchanged. We both planed to dominate but wouldn't take on each other. We ended up splitting the other territories and then shook hands.

[@bareakon]

Okay guys, I guess we can stop enabling Sully's Brooke delusion. Someone call the New Yorker.

[@mattclemson]

Let's be honest, Hot Bucket Cold Bucket should have absolutely been a dead giveaway.

[@SpaceMissile]

@@mattclemson I am kinda out-of-the-loop about the sully/brooke topic, but I did just look up the "hot bucket cold bucket" bit and that was _sooooo funny_ ahaha, thanks for that.

[@feroxfreak209]

A yes the three famous times House Rules actualy improved a game: monopoly, risk and that candy-colour-card game where they took guesses and drank.

[@mikebliss3153]

Don't forget Snakes and Snakes.

[@matsvee6746]

​@@mikebliss3153or vibes guess who

[@gregkelton81]

@@matsvee6746 Vibes Guess Who was by far the best.

[@britballer4697]

27:57 “I remember when the England team was English and now it’s just steaks with legs” has to be an all time best quote 😆

[@Mircu1987]

Dom and Sully is such a great duo. It's so iconic to hear Dom say "Shut up!" If there was a game made with NRB characters then I would definitely put it as Dom's catchphrase. Just like Shaggy has Zoinks!

[@aurelia2132]

Dom: "Neutral Peru." Me, quietly to myself: "Perutral..." Dom: "Perutral!" True connoisseurs love a portmanteau.

[@gyroscope915]

What a start to a game. That was a truly amazing round neutral player! I wasn't sure about you when sully introduced you but I'm sure you will fit right in!

[@jonathanwancour5342]

I saw this video pop up and thought, "Sweet, they're playing Risk 2210" (famously the Risk game that actually has nuclear weapons). I don't know why I thought House Rules would do something that straightforward.

[@Kage-Yami]

I didn't see the House Rules bit to start with, so I at least was a bit more justified in thinking the same thing. 😅 It'd certainly be more interesting than stock Risk, I reckon, even this House Rules variant... I remember enjoying playing it years ago with my family.

[@keithparker1346]

I suspect it's because most people don't know of Risk 2210

[@jonathanwancour5342]

@keithparker1346 Probably right. It's a shame, though. Risk 2210 is still my favorite version. It solved some of the things I disliked about classic Risk. The turn limit prevents overly defensive play and the commander cards can punish doom stacks. Layering energy management and variable turn order on top of that makes the game more dynamic. There's much less "one attack just to get my card."

[@DracoSuave]

2210 is SO good, with Godstorm just behind

[@PeteTheWargamer]

I love the House Rules vids, easily my favourite. I look forward to seeing you folks at the UKGE!

[@Mr_Bunk]

Pete! Nice to see you here!

[@thechaospope]

31:06 Kinda surprised that Teri didn't object to Dom moving his troops to On-Teri-Oh

[@CarlosThadeu]

Such a Teri-rible pun 😂

[@aaronfidelis3188]

Most Kills Achievement goes to the Neutrals Most Friendly Fires: Also Neutrals.

[@Phalxxx]

I love the idea the Brooke is a shared mad delusion that was bought into by so many people that she became real.

[@argyem6688]

In my head canon, the "neutrals" were Teri-tories. Pleased to see Teri survived in Yakutsk It would be fun to replay this with the small tweak that the neutrals only nuke the players, not themselves (and maybe if they draw their own Teri-tory they get another soldier in that location). That way Teri would have a chance of winning without actively playing. 🙂

[@yoshi6421]

I love this modification!

[@joshuahorton3927]

The transition of crying men to Dom's empty black eyes staring back at you seems to be very appropriate.

[@BobertJoe]

They never explained that there would be a nuke after every turn, so the first two times I thought it was a retaliatory fire in response to the players' nukes. I think that would have been a more interesting way to do it, since it turns a nuke into a gamble. Instead it is just random so you may as well nuke if it takes out more than a couple of enemy troops.

[@yoshi6421]

1:43 Yes they did.

[@NecroZora]

The title of this alone brings me back to when I was 13 years old without any friends and making up my own rules of Risk that included options for nukes and missile strikes so I already love it.

[@loap4634]

I like how european are the least affected by nuclear bomb in this.

[@MsTV.00]

Hearing the guys named Michael by Sullivan immediately threw me back to when they did ready steady bet and had the 3 Michael horses

[@giorgiafletcher9546]

i thought of the exact same thing lol

[@shalaz1981]

I love the idea of Hasbro R&D’ing dice just to get Dom. 😂

[@PinataFreaks]

This is one of those House Rules that should absolutely be replayed with a full set of players. This was incredible.

[@donovanchau3483]

Full Plastic Jacket would be an amazing stop motion movie with green army men

[@cookiestyleguy5886]

Strangely enough, this video didn’t make me want to play Risk, but it did make me want to play Fallout again.

[@vimbert]

The Neutrals are such a hilarious addition to the cast! We need more of them, please.

[@pietrosmusi6348]

I love how Dom's mood is a constantly swinging pendulum that goes from "I'm the best" to "i hate this stupid game"

[@adambennett6595]

There was an old game called Supremacy that was like risk. But you had a stock market and could develop nukes. After so many nuke strikes the games ended in mutually assured destruction leaving the planet in nuclear winter. Invariably the game ended with one mad man holding the world hostage

[@sintanan469]

Ah, yes. The old Bunker Grandpa Simulator.

[@BasketOfPuppies642]

I can't believe that Dom didn't just choose to roll better numbers. Rookie mistake if you ask me.

[@MRdaBakkle]

You know when Dom isn't playing the Gamemaster Sully actually looks like he is having fun instead of being terrified.

[@ohlookameme9917]

You guys never miss on your ads for your shows and merch, I'm not from the UK and i still wanna buy a ticket lol

[@ishanaprabhakar7542]

4:31 Another tidbit about the strangeness of this world is the fact that there is no New Zealand

[@SirSaladhead]

NZ planned for all this, converted their entire country into a mobile space station and lifted off.

[@lordbp]

@@SirSaladhead Did they take Tasmania with them as well

[@EvilOverlord1662]

The very first nuke that goes off wipes me out. So thanks, I guess?

[@mess2038]

Dom just as a megalomaniac vibe about him, it only makes sense he’d acquire nukes.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Two things I love about this pairing in this video: (1) How amused Sully is by his friends, bc his laugh is contagious af; and (2) how, whenever Dom gets annoyed, he makes a Miss Piggy sound.

[@BeardyTAS]

Honestly, the most surprising thing about this video is that they actually playtest things!

[@beningram1811]

Full plastic Jacket got the thumbs up from me.

[@secretforreddit]

I absolutely love this variation and will 100% be adopting this for my future games of risk! Gotta love ways to shorten it a bit, and this is a great thematic method!

[@adamthebatmanwest]

This should combine with the last video, if you wanna drop "the bomb" you gotta take a dab of the "the bomb" hot sauce

[@beamccullagh3292]

I would love to see a 4 player version of risk that dom thinks is a normal game, but he has rigged dice so he almost always looses and just watch him slowly get madder and madder

[@macdoo99]

House rules: Diplomacy but everybody is Dom (full game of diplomacy where everybody is dressed up as Dom and pretending to be him)

[@boostbeetle]

Brooke wasn't invisible! She was a sock puppet the entire time!!!

[@Xenotric]

The neutral player could be referred to as Territories Existing Ridiculously Independently. Gotta hate those TERIs! :P

[@Tyflighter]

Masterful editing! I am loving the Big Red Button, explosions and all the visual effects! :D

[@filiaaut]

The agressive zooms on Dom's enraged face each time he shook the dice were hilarious. So simple, and yet so effective.

[@tomzitiger]

we need a video with dom playing diplomacy NOW

[@birdmcturd1626]

“The fairies did that” Don’t say it,don’t say it,don’t say it

[@leoff7]

I don't know which game, but you should make a House rules with heart monitors and there's a punishment if it gets above a certain level!

[@grungington]

Would love to see this one again, multiplayer.

[@dallinadams9422]

Yes, 4 players!

[@gingerinajacket8519]

33:06 I mean, it is kind of a phyrric victory, because 986 emus died, and 2500 injured, while the 3 guns were overrun. The war was ended due to public criticism (On the side of the Australian Government) and the high cost of ammunition. The humans absolutely could have kept going in the war, if it weren't for the other humans. It wasn't like the Emuminator (The Emu Terminator) rose up and actually caused a revolution or something, they just failed to gain much traction.

[@BrianJNelson]

I feel like Rimmer needs to be here entering all of this in his Risk diary.

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

I know I'm outing myself as a peasant here, but Iceland isn't the frozen foods specialist, that's Farmfoods. Iceland even had a dig at them in an advert about it.

[@CZProtton]

No Doms Barred is really getting better and better.

[@gjs9871]

We’ve got to finish this emu war, spoken like a true australian

[@PsychoSavager289]

For the next one: Kerplunk, but with hot sweets instead of marbles. Whoever makes them drop has to eat them.

[@paulblake1563]

Great idea

[@lloydhendric1281]

But with some gross flavored Jelly Belly.

[@ricardovillon1189]

That sounds great. I'd enjoy seeing Dom and Sully try to eat them.

[@final_catalyst]

Yes, but you only play with diabetics, and the only insulin is sitting on top of all the candy. (this is a joke, to be clear)

[@bry814]

Glad to see Sullivan got his horses again.

[@joshuarichardson5065]

Can't forget about Venezuelian gold farmers in old school runescape. Best kind of people we love South America.

[@subman23]

They set up a whole tournament, and it was won by a figment of Sully's imagination

[@fjcracing1318]

8:53 feel like this conversation has happened in many real strategy rooms

[@mrkrabbbbz]

i havent even watched the first minute and i just know i need a part 2

[@KevFrost]

We need a part 2 where we have Comrade Dom Stalin, Sullivan Truman, Teri DeGaulle and Tilly Churchill divide up the world between them.

[@brendanhulse7439]

This is a legitimately fun seeming version of Risk. And it's vaguely balanced too. Like it isn't, but nobody gets an advantage in dropping nukes.

[@brendanrobertson5966]

The number of countries on a Risk board is less than the number of countries historically invaded by Britain.

[@Thurman321]

An idea to slow-down the run-away nuclear warfare might be that for every nation destroyed by nuclear warfare on a continent, its continent bonus drops by 1, meaning ruining a continent to be the last one in control of a flaming ruin won't give you the full benefit of capturing it intact, and at a certain point, it gives nothing. You might also consider an option 'clean' fallout by spending a certain number of troops (Perhaps 2 in addition to the 1 lost to nuclear attrition for 3 total), as a means of getting a conquest card and repairing an annihilated continent. This would create an interesting strategic decision regarding expansion inward (rebuilding the shattered husk of your empire) versus simply throwing all your weight and strength behind a final push to annihilate your opponent. It would also tempt players towards a death-spiral of having less countries left and therefore less resources to clean up the ones that remain. Just some suggestions, great video by the way!

[@ashleyharris4114]

This inspired me to play a game or Risk, a game of Tactical Nuclear Warfare myself, although I made alterations as follows: Each turn gain 1 Troop. Each turn gain 1 troop per 4 territories you control. On the 3'rd turn before you calculate how many troops, place a Capital on one country you control; The Capital has the following Rules: Whoever controls a Capital gets +1 troops per Capital they own (so stealing your opponents is beneficial!, the Capital has a Nuclear Defence System, so it can never be Nuked! So if a that Country is drawn too bad, no Nuking! * Neutral doesn't get a Capital! Gain extra Troops per region you control modified by the amount of that Territory left, so for example Africa, Control 5-6 get the full 3, Control 3-4 get 2, Control 1-2 get 1 extra troops. Modify that for the other regions accordingly. If territories are nuked you can attack from your current square to another square, obviously you are passing through Nuked countries so the penalty needs to apply, so for example move through 2 squares lose 2 even before you battle (only apply this once for combat) and proceed as normal, at the end of all battles the troops that battled occupy that country (assuming you won) without penalty (so if you attacked with 3 then 1-3 can now occupy that won country, but never more than battled. Reinforcing that country will then cause more deaths from radiation... Such is the price of Nuclear War I guess! 😅 And finally... Cards rather than Stars count towards getting extra Troops and you can't trade in more than 4 cards at a time as follows; 2 cards, 2 troops, 3 cards, 4 troops, 4 cards, 7 troops. All the above Rules prevents the game from being able to be ran away with by exchanging a lot of cards as well as restricting bow many resources can be gained per turn. But I have to say, this is now the ONLY way that I want to play Risk! It was a lot of fun and the game was considerably shorter. And remember, if you lose at a Game of Risk, Tactical Nuclear Warfare, it doesn't matter, because you know that your enemies are all going to die from the Radiation anyway! *And just a thought, if you feel that your army would never let their Capital be captured, then apply this Rule: If an opposing Army captures your Capiltal, immediately Nuke that Capital ( the Defence System goes Off-line when it's captured) AND the country that that attack originated... If for some reason your opponent attacked from their own Capital, it's Nuked too, bad luck you can't avoid it! 😅 Great video as always guys, such fun!. 🎉

[@shaned36]

Sullivan and his love of horses returns 😂

[@ktoams]

From Iceland: We dont need nukes, we got volcanic eruptions, right around when this video came out :D

[@leechmiller1072]

I just found your channel, I'm really enjoying it. One thing I noticed in this game is the neutrals kept pushing the self-destruct button.

[@nigredoooalgown6245]

Watch comunopoly next! (Communist, monopoly, with Dom as Stalin)

[@leechmiller1072]

@@nigredoooalgown6245 Yeah I watched those. They were awesome.

[@baron.7284]

This reminds me of Risk Evolution where you could unlock nuclear weapons as part of the game's ongoing development. Founded the world capital - immediately gets annihilated and is uninhabitable forever.

[@patrickjohnson1649]

Also... *NUKEM*: "Get them Before they Get You!" Another Quality Home Game from Butler Brothers.

[@SharkTrooper77]

Here's a suggestion Risk but with shots and every time you lose you have to take a shot.

[@Pootasaur]

Missed opportunity for Teri to not be neutral, especially when France started in neutral

[@norude]

I always imagine Terry as the animated Terry from Pixar's soul

[@jamesroberts3013]

New idea: Scotland Yard, but it’s the Troubles, and the budget’s a ol bit thin

[@blauerdrache2474]

Brillant

[@lauraniun3092]

I would like to take a moment to appreciate the emu war 2.0 and also the joke about Melbourne. 10/10

[@icecrystal7965]

Wait wait wait This is pretty much exactly the plot of xenonauts The random nukings are the aliens

[@cryotosis]

Patrolling the Mojave, almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@christofferthorsson607]

well, comrade general secretary Dom did say the revolution shouldn't be spread.

[@jasonlib1996]

Dom has clearly been watching full metal jacket recently

[@lina9535]

If I ever get myself into gear and finish the game I'm working on, I'm gonna make a character just for Sully because his laugh would make it so much better, and also one for Dom, because he's Dom (and we like the anger 👍).

[@at0mic_cyb0rg]

This is really fun and chaotic, plus a great way to speed up Risk! I once created a house rule which I thought was nifty, but realised afterwards dramatically extends the game lol where basically you can spend a single card to airdrop troops into the territory even if you're not controlling an adjacent territory. It happens before placing reinforcements on controlled territories, and uses those reinforcements. Three possible outcomes: win the airdrop and take the territory, lose all of your reinforcements in the airdrop, or cut your losses and end the airdrop so you can place the surviving reinforcements as normal.

[@mutebanshee7769]

I love the little bit of added strategy this adds. It wasn't super highlighted here, at least not where I'm at so far. But the give and take of moving into territory that you have in your hand so it can't be nuked, holding key strategic locations in hand for future nukes, or deciding to trade in cards for troops with the added pressure of knowing that you are putting some of your territories back into the pull... I love it

[@Flamuski]

Dom ~doesn't~ sounds like the ideal candidate for using Nuclear Weapons!

[@noahsmethers9339]

Someone asked me if I was watching anime. I - in fact - was not watching anime, but I WAS watching two grown men argue over nuking each other.

[@SomeGuy-kn9yc]

I love how utterly unhinged Dom gets