The Re-Raise on the Risk Meta Settings 

I think this game is really different from black’s pov. Pink sits behind you in russia, seems to be totally cool with you, and at some point he breaks your +8 (but nothing else) and puts in a crying emoji. In response you give them like 7 cards in their own bonus so you don’t have to worry about retaking/breaking every turn. Then pink starts beating the shit out of you and breaking all your shit every chance they get. So you try to cardblock him and force him into orange, and eventually you kill him because it’s clear he’s never going to relent and never going into Orient. I don’t blame the guy for his play, honestly. And I don’t think they’ll be an expert for very long.

Love these Europe Advanced games. It's truly replaced the classic map. More dynamic to play and more entertaining to watch.

I wonder if when Pete first broke black he had left a small stack in Germany if that would have worked out differently. I think that is the only real spot things may have changed, because no one had Germany so maybe trading there could have diffused the tension. Then again it may have just been wasted troops. What I really dont get is the people criticizing Pete for the way he played the rest and his analysis of blacks play. One thing everyone seems to be forgetting is the "Good Luck" that they dropped when Pete broke. That is the classic way of saying "this means war", and was likely the moment black decided to fight to the bitter end. Some people just have a small threshold for creating a mortal enemy, and that break was blacks. All of us have experienced that player that gets broken once and just goes completely ape shit, so it should not be too hard to grasp. A better player would have realized they dont want war on two fronts, and toned it down by taking at least one turn to trade single spots in Russia. Given the hyper aggressive retaliatory break, the "Good Luck" on the first break, the attempted card block WAY too early in the game, and not giving a cap card I think Pete analyzed this player perfectly: A good player who needs to work on empathy and prediction to improve.

your capacity of analyzing the game and what’s happening in the fog is one of the best feature of this channel. you gotta love it when actually happens what you predicted!

What a unique board... never seen the middle pocket like that

It is always the correct move to take Pete out regardless of how many cards he has

Sean Bean dies first, classic!

It’s been well over 20 years, and to be frank, your nose blowing reminds me of my grandpa. I still miss him (died in 1997) and my grandmother, who died in 2019. 😢😢😊😊❤❤❤ Now, I live in the house he built, and they lived in since 1973. I’m reminded how much I learned from them every day!

The fact he took that roll, the sac on this man 😂

I do like your line of thinking here for breaking black not orange. Orange might've been less upset about it. Sacrifice that one bonus to trade cards. But strategically, you're starting a war between orange and white. I think if black could see that's what you're doing they'd be happy to trade in their own bonus. I mean, strategically you breaking their bonus is great for them, you only hold one bonus (though it's a nice sized one) white and orange are dumping troops into each other letting black take bonuses to the west, and ultimately the fact that they have expansion options and you don't they're in an advantageous position for first. And you know that one of your best skills is knowing when to pounce. That you'll identify from context clues when you'll have the chance to chain the orange kill into the white kill to put you in that advantageous position. But the risk didn't pay off, black just couldn't pick up what you were doing based on context clues. I think not just empathy, but retaliating in kind, would benefit their gameplay greatly, you break my bonus, I break one part of your bonus, and we go from there. A really interesting game to watch, even if sad since as a viewer I'm always rooting for the peteman.

I don't know why but I'm a huge fan of Pete using the word penultimate

I missed the way Pete does the intro so much. It's awesome to hear him say "Riiisk TAKEERRRRRS" again

One of the best things about the Pete videos is i can watch them on my phone while i play pokemon roms and RU-vid doesn't tell me they don't work in the miniplayer.

I'm curious about yours and others comments about the fact that black not giving you any cap cards was an aggressive or unfavorable play. I don't understand why he would ever want to open your cap on a line that only faces into him regardless of whether or not he intended to deescalate at that point.

3:21 bless you Pete

3:21 Bless You

genuine question, why didnt you got for the North Africa cap when you were looking for a cap option

I don’t understand the concern around closing the cap. It’s already effectively closed because you have the next blocking territory right?

Pete i have a question . What do you use to make those red arrows and circle?

I thought this was a Risk video, Pete, not a tutorial on the trombone! Lol! Feel better, man.

Petemeown: at the end screen, can you hide yourself and your cat for a moment so we can see all the players’ names? Please and thanks ☺️

Came for the Risk, stayed for the epic nose blowing. 😅

Late night peteman, love it

personally I liked the 2 in West Africa over Russia 1:13, but that's just me

Also, I did note when you decided on an adversary to card trade, that your thinking of “forcing Orange to go after white” was a miscalculation- you didn’t realize how weak white WAS at that point, but you chose to break your neighbor black 8 troop…and you couldn’t defend against the retaliation effectively. Your capital provided most of your defense at the bottom going into orient. Ultimately a bad call, you were caught and that’s why the 3rd place finish.

Some people here want to deduce bad play just from the fact that Pete lost. That's not how the game works. There's still a lot of luck involved. I'd like to see more losses on this channel. It would help me and others get a better perspective on the real game

there was in fact a smorgasbord showing in this video!

Spoiler blocker!

bro i played a game earlier and the orange bot hit my 79 cap instead of blues 39 and im still pissed

10:17 You didnt have to close off your cap, just get an italy card as it was obvious you were about to lose that stack anyways. In the end it didnt matter as Orange reopened your cap next turn.

Spot on, due to other player mistakes Black was able stay alive... White should have killed blue many times over...

Whie didn`t bully you. He gave you 7 teretories to get a card. Breaking you that way was very smart

3:19 à tes souhaits

10:26 your cap was already closed 😕

Black will most likely remain an expert 😮

I don't follow along with the antagonizing black? Instead of a single card in your territory, as you expected, he gave you seven. Maybe it feels a bit over the top, but it is what you wanted, right?

from iraq ... have fun when i watch u

Great video as usual. In your live streams, please have a discussion about converting consistent 2nd place finishes into wins. I’m struggling with this on the regular now (aka TaranWanderer1974)

I think because you broke all his bonuses, your statement about him needing to realise you only did it for a card may be invalid. What he did do was keep you off your bonus, but he would not have won if you had also defended more and not let orange slowly strangle white. White losing was what causes black to continue to expand and ultimately kill blue, who should have seen black as being aggressive and him and white keep black down with you You needed to kill orange in fact and steam roller the board from Asia and Africa and let black have nearly all of Russia until he reached your cap. Which brings up another point, I have rarely seen you not let the aggressive player come and open your cap, which is yours and Kilted's classic moves, you struggled using 5 or 6 troops far to many goes due to this, so again orange and bullying him out of Asia was the play.

It's cute how people try to give opinions, after the game has played " ..."Monday Quarterbacking" the situation. You were quite clear and consistent, in your gameplay. What would the reasonable Peteman do? Do what you did:)

i hate that some player not knowing what we mean from atack some times i see somone take 30 trops so i break just 1 bonus to stabilize the game so you can take bouns but not being over power but this player break all my bonus so usually the game end for me or for him 😂😂😂🫡

Whie didn`t bully you. He gave you 7 teretories to get a card. Breaking you that way was very smart