Starcraft and World of Warcraft Boardgames FTW

Is it a bird; is it a plane; is it Risk; is it Monopoly; is it World of Warcraft; is it Starcraft; or is it Superman? No, it is Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: Starcraft! USAopoly have teamed up with Blizzard to bring the battle-torn lands of Azeroth and the Koprulu Sector onto your favourite boardgames!

  

I was always a fan of passing go and collecting 200 hard earned monies, I felt like my life was going places; I owned all the real estate, even the train stations and electricity companies, rent was good and as long as I kept going in circles and not to jail - the cash would flow. Soon life became a bore, I was tired of controlling suburbia and I wanted to expand my horizons to places like the Twilight Highlands, Grizzly Hills, and the Swamp of Sorrows. For a while there was no hope of me escaping the suburbs, then suddenly, the Alliance and Horde appeared before me and all that I once knew vanished before my eyes. I could see the capitals of Orgrimmar and Stormwind in the distance and my suburban empire had disappeared. I was in the World of Warcraft, in Monopoly! My faith in Monopoly was restored. Now I just need to find the free-parking in Azeroth.

 

On the occasions I played Risk, I always went for Australasia. Eddie Izzard (If you don’t know who this is, you live under a rock) famously said, “World War Two: Hitler conquers Czechoslovakia, Poland and France; Russian front not a good idea; Hitler never played Risk when he was a kid, because, you know, playing Risk, you could never hold on to Asia. That Asian-Eastern European area, you could never hold it, could you? Seven extra men at the beginning of every go, but you couldn't hold it. Australasia, that was the one. Australasia. All the purples. Get everyone on Papua New Guinea and just build up and build up... ”

There is a slight problem with Izzard’s strategy in RISK: Starcraft, where is Australasia in the Koprulu Sector?

I am excited as a fat kid is for a cupcake, for Monopoly: World or Warcraft and Risk: Starcraft. Let the offline, off the pc games begin!

 

 

 

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  bosbvok

  Thanks, @Valshen. Keen to check out the GOW3 boardgame as well. Wonder if they have it at Wizards / Battlebunker as well. I don't think Outer Limits is in CPT.

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:09:20 PM

   
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  @Valshen

  Places like Outer Limits already stocks several Risk variants, as well as copies of the Gears of War boardgame.

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:52:23 PM

   
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  Grant Hinds

  Not yet. NEED to source SC2 RISK!!!

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:48:39 PM

   
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  bosbvok

  Sound awesome, Grant. Anyone know of where you can buy these locally?

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:33:02 PM