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'''World War 5''' is an Icehouse game for 2 to 4 players designed by [[Andy Looney]]. It is designed to be a game similar to the classic game RISK, but with much simpler rules, evenly distributed resources, and a shorter play time. Each player seeks to conquer an entire opposing continent without losing all their home territories.
The game was first published by Looney Labs in 2008
==Board Differences in Pyramid Arcade==
World War 5 is part of [[Pyramid Arcade]], but its version of the board has some design changes compared to the original board. The new design is missing a connection from Southeast North America to Northwest Africa and a connection from Southwest Australia to South Africa. On the other hand, it includes a land connection between Southwest Asia and Northern Europe that does not exist on the original board (the territory line between North Asia and Southwest Asia ended in the small body of water called the Caspian Sea, but in the new design it ends halfway the border with Northern Europe, adding the said connection).
==Probability==
The chances of successfully invading an occupied space depend on the sizes of the pieces since size determines the number of dice that each player rolls.
Larger pieces usually defeat smaller pieces regardless of which is attacking.
For every combination of pieces, the probabilities of a '''successful attack''' are given in the following table.
{| class="wikitable"
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Defending piece
|-
| width="50px" height="50px" style="text-align:center" | Small
| width="50px" style="text-align:center" | Medium
| width="50px" style="text-align:center" | Large
|-
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"| Attacking<br>piece
| width="50px" height="50px" style="text-align:center" | Small
| style="text-align:center"| 41.7% || style="text-align:center"| 9.3% || style="text-align:center"| 1.2%
|-
| height="50px" style="text-align:center" | Medium
| style="text-align:center"| 83.8% || style="text-align:center"| 44.4% || style="text-align:center"| 15.2%
|-
| height="50px" style="text-align:center" | Large
| style="text-align:center"| 97.3% || style="text-align:center"| 77.9% || style="text-align:center"| 45.4%
|}
==External Links==
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* [http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/WW5/index.html Old website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyB6p9rrMY
* World War 5 is [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/39565 listed on BoardGameGeek].
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