{"id":20,"date":"2004-12-31T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-31T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-08-20T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T17:19:24","slug":"risk-versus-diplomacy-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/31\/risk-versus-diplomacy-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk versus Diplomacy Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a term that I will be using from time to time &#8211; I just used it in a post without explaining what it meant, though.<\/p>\n<p>Risk and Diplomacy are both world conquest board games, but each has a different approach. <\/p>\n<p>Risk is all about the dice rolls. There is not a lot that separates a great Risk player from a good Risk player. Some planning is necessary, of course, but more depends on fate and luck.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomacy is all skill. There are no dice, no combat result tables, nothing but the player and his\/her brain.<\/p>\n<p>The Risk vs Diplomacy axis is the spectrum along which all strategy games lie. Some lean more towards luck, others towards skill. All are somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a term that I will be using from time to time &#8211; I just used it in a post without explaining what it meant, though. Risk and Diplomacy are both world conquest board games, but each has a different approach. Risk is all about the dice rolls. There is not a lot that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}