| napthyme | 20 Oct 2014 8:44 p.m. PST |
I picked up a game at a thrift shop that looked cool, but its in either Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese and I have no idea what the title translates to or what its exactly about. I could not find them at all on Ebay. Its called… Ataque Game. Un Juengo De Alto Mando.
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| Privateer4hire | 20 Oct 2014 9:01 p.m. PST |
Boardgamegeek suggests it's Risk or a very close cousin called War. |
| emckinney | 20 Oct 2014 9:21 p.m. PST |
"Ataque" is just "Attack." Google Tranlate is your friend: link (the link pre-translates the phrase) |
| emckinney | 20 Oct 2014 9:27 p.m. PST |
Love that an A9 cruiser tank made it onto the front cover. Or is it an A10 or early A13 with the single turret? Any chance of a larger photo of that corner of the box? If you can find the publisher, you should definitely take photos and add them to BGG. (Did you buy it?) |
| napthyme | 20 Oct 2014 10:02 p.m. PST |
Yes I did buy it, hang on there is a sticker on the bottom. It's from Chile. There is a name juguetes meyer sa on it, but looks like they are an importer. The only thing I can see for a company name is a circle that says hobby with a lego type man made with a red circle head and an H for a body. Searching by country I did manage to find it, but not much info on it. link Looks like its maybe written in Portuguese which chrome is not translating for me. |
| Martin Rapier | 20 Oct 2014 11:17 p.m. PST |
That looks like Risk to me, the board is identical. |
| arthur1815 | 21 Oct 2014 3:38 a.m. PST |
I agree – definitely RISK or a variant thereof. |
| OSchmidt | 21 Oct 2014 4:07 a.m. PST |
Oh gee… ummm…. I dunno… it oculd be… umm…Of course, it's risk.
Otto
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| stenicplus | 21 Oct 2014 6:12 a.m. PST |
I'd have said Spanish: "A game of High Command" The website you link to is in Spanish too and it fits that Chileans speak Spanish (or at least a slight variant – mush like US English vs UK English), given Meyer are a Chilian company. |
| Martin Rapier | 21 Oct 2014 7:53 a.m. PST |
Judging by the tables on the board it is standard/classic risk – the reinforcement schedule on the left hand side is the one I recall from the 1970s rather then the more modern fixed ratios for various risk card combos. The right hand table is the armies you get for holding each continent. Strange that it includes even numbers of coloured dice rather than three+two, perhaps one is a spare. |
Roderick Robertson  | 21 Oct 2014 9:42 a.m. PST |
Not *quite* the Risk board- Australia has a sea lane to India, and another to South America that Risk doesn't have (and, I think, another province). No Island Fortress Australia strategy… |
| jefritrout | 21 Oct 2014 10:50 a.m. PST |
I would say Spanish. Jogo is the Portuguese word for game, juego is Spanish. I've seen the Brazilian version (15 years ago) and if my memory serves well, this isn't that one |
| Buzzkill | 21 Oct 2014 8:24 p.m. PST |
Yeah, it's Spanish not Portuguese. BTW, the difference between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese is the accent, it wouldn't really show up in the spelling. Anyways, that's neither here nor there, I think it has been established that the game is Risk. |
