I jumped off the bus from work and joined Leon and Brian in the Dolphin. They had already acquired the Risk! board and were waiting for me to arrive to set up a game. It was rather an old version of the game (circa mid 70s) so the board looked a bit different and the pieces were a bit odd as well. There was no clear definition where Alaska joined Asia on the other side of the board, but after some deliberating, we settled on Kamchatka. In addition, there was a lengthy discussion about the order of merit of the military icons on the cards but we eventually established the following hierarchy from lowest to highest:
Infantry -> Cavalry -> Artillery
I went for the brown pieces, Leon went for yellow and Brian chose blue, upon which, battle commenced! Yukari joined us for a little while but it was quite an involved game and it was all talk about that. We all had rather a nice dinner though and carried on with the game afterwards. Fast forward to midnight and the game had not significantly progressed - We each roughly took up around a third of the world so the game was declared a draw (whilst I was in the gents) and we made a fateful decision to head to The Works which was as empty as I have ever seen it...