normally risk, but when you play with the right people, it can be a blast. I had a one-on-one with a friend of mine, and i held america, he held asia. my little brother had been playing for a bit, but threw a huff when he was losing and stormed out, so we just left his armies in africa as roadblocks, ones we would attack, and the other player would roll for, but couldn't attack themselves. eventually, i pushed through into europe, and mounted a beach-head into ukraine, a massive region that represents eastern europe. i had 3 cannons and 3 infantry there, amounting to 33 units, and adjacent to that, in two different regions, my friend had amassed a force of 40ish units. we began the battle in earnest, but it dragged on for turns. eventually, i was whittled down to only two units, and my friend three. he launched one final weary attack, hoping to destroy my stranglehold on europe before my reinforcements could arrive, but in the end i beat him back to one unit each, meaning no more attacks could be placed. my reinfocrements came, a further 15 units into my forces in the ukraine, and we then ploughed through the remainder of his forces, as he only had one or two units in his other regions. it was the risk equivalent of the battle of the somme, and the most fun i had in a boardgame.
but for me, the most boring boardgame is chess. i could never get into it.