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th-child has dominated the top of the scoreboard for countless months, and was an integral part of Major Command, both in front and behind the scenes. If anyone has ever played against him, you would know that th-child and dorcee were an unstoppable team.
I know I got my butt kicked by them many times!!
th-child joined Major Command a couple years before I became Sheriff. He had already been made an Admin staff member by Badorties before I came aboard, and was actively chasing down cheaters, keeping order in the forum, and generally making sure everyone was having a fun time…. and he did it all with a smile!
Despite the occasional troublemaking by disgruntled players, th-child always took care of business in a calm and collective manner. Which was an inspiration to watch when I felt myself beginning to lose my cool. And my guess is that his rational temperament, along with a keen sense of strategy, is possibly the key to winning all those games!
There will definately be a void felt in the Admin side of Major Command, and a void in the gaming side too… which leaves an opportunity for someone else to claim the rank of MajorCommander!
Now only a couple questions remain….
Take care and have fun in whatever you do, and hope to see you soon again!!
We here at Major Command, (The best online Risk game website ever!) we were very excited and surprised when a long time player, Lulzim, contacted us with an idea for a new map. Actually, it was more than just an idea, he had practically finished it! – And within the course of a few weeks, we had the map uploaded, and ready to test with our Play Testers! If all goes well, we will have this map available to all our players within a couple weeks.
Meanwhile, please read more and welcome the newest addition to our map family – Barbarossa!
This map is beautifully designed and has a style reminiscent of the classic Risk board game map. Barbarossa utilizes all the fun features that make online Risk a fun game to play.
Barbarossa features several small quick Commands that will keep the game fast and tight. It will be a challenge for even the most experienced players for a long time to come!
Some features include:
And what is even more exciting, are these amazing new medals Lulzim designed for this great Risk game map!
Soon you will be able to take the challenge to be the first player to capture these great medals and be victorious in Operation Barbarossa!
Don’t forget to give a big shout out to a Lulzim for all his hard work in creating this newest online Risk game map!
Have fun everyone!
Sheriff.
We have just updated our RISK Gaming Blog from an old-school fixed and rigid website format, to a new mobile responsive and tablet friendly gaming blog!
With the help of jdinbc over at Great Bear Web Designs, all our blog pages, RISK board game reviews, and player’s stories, can now be easily viewed on a phone or tablet. The game blog still has some styling issue to iron out, namely the player’s info on the dogtag, but we are working to fix all lingering issues. 🙂
In the future, we are also planning to migrate our RISK Game Forum and our WIKI pages to a mobile friendly and responsive design too. Which will be great to view on all widescreen computer monitors of course, but more importantly, it will be great to view on all smartphones and tables. Now you can catch up on all the important Major Command Game stuff when you’re on the go! 🙂
So the big question is…
Well the short answer is… “kinda”. Playing RISK on a mobile phone is still a bit of a challenge. The RISK maps are quite large and viewing all the territories on a small screen is somewhat of a challenge. Playing RISK for now will remain best on a desktop or laptop, but we are making forward steps so that the gaming experience will be better when you are away from your home computer, and you quickly want to check on your games using a phone or tablet. Currently, the biggest improvement is our ongoing conversion from FLASH to HTML5. Those who have participated in our BETA game testing may have noticed the the new RISK game engine loads quickly and without issue on all mobile phones and devices. And the maps all pop up in a breeze!
The Major Command Android App designed by 5battalions is almost ready for launch. We’ll post more about this is a seperate blog, but I’ll give you a quick rundown now. So for now, when using the Android App, a player will be able to receive turn notifications, new private messages notifications, and access the Blog, Forum, and their player’s profile page directly from the app.
Currently the app is mainly a handy tool to receive notifications on your phone and to have quick access to the website. It does not make the game any more playable on a phone then it already is. Though more features may be added in the future, if 5battalions is up for the task! 😉
The app will be available in the Google Play Store shortly.
As for the new game engine, we only has one more rule to implement. After that, all the maps should be playable. The challenge now is to integrate the new engine with the current website. Namely in terms of integrating player’s scores, the scoreboard, the tournament section, the game results page, and all those things we take for granted at the moment. We also still need to clean up the UI a bit and implement Diplomacy as a feature.
There is a lot that will be unrolled in the coming months, so stay tuned!
Thanks for playing and have fun!
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Thursday, 25 April, 2024 | 47Without opening your door, Translated by Stephen Mitchell |
