Winning a Game of Risk Against My Dutch Family-In-Law

Winning a Game of Risk Against My Dutch Family-In-Law

Breaking News about my continued attempts to beat my Dutch family-in-law in a game of Risk!

I have emerged victorious. Many said it could not be done. Many said I would not survive. Many said I would be driven insane trying but against all odds I have prevailed and emerged victorious.

There were times when defeat seemed inevitable but even in the darkest hour I never lost hope, I never gave up. And now, because of this determination, I can proudly declare that this day will hence forth be remembered as the day I beat my Dutch father-in-law, brother-in-law and wife at a game of Risk (and that they are never allowed to mention what happened in Mongolia again).

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Assignment: North American & Africa

I fully expected to be hand over command of the Dutch military any day now since I am clearly the man for the job.

Read the story of my previous Risk defeat at the hands of my Dutch family-in-law.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

27 Responses

  1. Hey, you’re already the King of Holland, so why not? :)

    (I don’t know how to play this game. Did you have the blue pieces? Or the pink ones?

  2. the wife says:

    whaha! Blue, that’s me! Don’t I look important and a strong army on the board???

  3. …Or was it the yellow pieces? I don’t know anymore…

  4. Dragonlady says:

    You’ll have to teach us tisk later, it sounds fun

  5. Invader Stu says:

    Luuk – Well yes… but… I had a lot on my mind ok… like the whole of Asia :p

    Barb the French Bean – I was the yellow pieces yes :) I always play yellow

    The wife – And trust you to take Great Britain from me

    Dragonlady – It’s very complex but it is a lot of fun

  6. Wrong Side of the Pond says:

    Well of course you won then Stu…you have America and America always wins! :D

    But really, letting anyone take NA is just asking to get pwned. How’d you trick them into letting you have that?

  7. Luuk says:

    Who had Europe? Because Europe always wins.

  8. Invader Stu says:

    Wrong Side of the Pond – I stormed through and took the whole country in my last turn :) We play a very slow game.

    Luuk – I think it was my brother in law who had the biggest force in Europe but no one was ready to take it and you can’t hold it for long

  9. VallyP says:

    I remember my boyfriend and his friends playing that when we were students (or something incredibly like it). See, the desire for world domination is inside every man, even one as mild and seemingly harmless as Invader Stu (check the name, though)….mongolia was lucky to escape being invaded…poor old Holland didn’t :-D

  10. Luuk says:

    I never really played risk, i should.

  11. Lennert says:

    Ah yes. Mongolia. A very difficult country to take. Atleast when I am playing with my friends. Managed to hold it against all odds for three turns, with only 5 pieces, against 15 orso. Did eventually loose the game, but it messed up the game for many players who thought they could get an easy kill and steal my cards…

    This is Mongolia!!

  12. Wezz6400 says:

    Dang, I really should’ve returned sooner to respond to this. Stu outranking me, pffft. Enough reason to drop some Kirov Bombs on his head, but he’s long gone and my Kirovs need new gas. :-(

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