Capital Risk Board Game is the same as the Global Domination Game. The only difference is that the Capital Risk game’s rules were designed to be a quicker game. The objective of the game is to occupy or acquire the enemy headquarter while you are still in control of your territories.
If you want to make the game even shorter, you can adjust your objectives in such a way that if there are only four people playing, once you have captured any of the two enemy territories while you are still in control of your territory, you have already won. Or if there are 5-6 player playing the game, the first to acquire three headquarters wins.
Capital Risk Before the Game
After the initial placement and deployment of all the armies to their respective territories, each player, without letting the other players know, choose a territory which will become the player’s headquarters. Players must find the card with the image of the chosen headquarters in the deck of cards without showing the other players.
When everyone has found the Risk Card of their respective headquarters already, they will show it to everyone so that everyone is aware of everybody’s headquarters.
Capital Risk Game Play
The game play rules of the Global Domination Game applies to the Capital Risk Game as well. The only difference are the rules that apply to the head quarters. If you acquire another player’s headquarters, you must take that player’s Risk Card and place it in front of you facing up as proof that you have already acquired that territory.
If your headquarter was taken over by another player, that does not necessarily mean that you have already lost. You are can still play as long as you are still in control of your other territories. This means you can retrieve your lost headquarter if you have a territory adjacent to it.
You cannot use the card that signifies your headquarter as a part of a set of cards to be traded in for reinforcements. In fact, you must keep that card out of the way to avoid including it to your sets.
Winning Capital Risk
To win the game, you must either acquire all the headquarters of your opponents or acquire the specified number of head quarters (if there is an agreement) before your opponents while maintaining control over your territories.