RISK Factions

Hey there, achievement hunters. In this walkthrough, we'll be focusing on the achievements in the following order.

1. The campaign is largely a formality. There's only one achievement explicitly obtained within it, but it serves as a decent tutorial to Factions mode and its features.

2. The multiplayer is the bread and butter of the game and where you'll be spending most of your time. The majority can be obtained locally against the CPU or yourself if you have the extra controllers. Four achievements require matches on Live.

3. There are three miscellaneous achievements that require a bit of planning in advance. These will be covered here.

So! Who's up for a rousing edition of Global Thermonuclear War?

• The main menu has a statistics page in the form of War Records. This is useful for tracking how many of each faction you've destroyed and how many super overkills you need for Demon Child.
• While everything can be done by yourself, many of the non-Live achievements get exponentially easier with multiple controllers. Just do your own thing with one profile and have the rest skip their turns.
• For online matches, quitting out occasionally works and occasionally doesn't. Play each game without quitting to minimize the frustration of a game not counting.
• When going for online wins, host each match yourself. I emphasize this whenever it comes up, but a win when you are not the host is not guaranteed to count for you.

Local

First, in order to get familiar with the game, go through campaign mode. It goes by fairly quickly, teaches about the new features of Factions mode, and oh right there's an achievement for it. Probably should've mentioned that first. Also, you unlock more maps for multiplayer for use in getting 5 Star General.

Faction Specialist12 (10)

Complete the human, cat, robot, yeti and zombie campaigns.

• Unlocked by 10,348 tracked gamers (70% - TA Ratio = 1.20) 14,878

Now that you're properly prepared, it's time to dive into the multiplayer. Chances are the following was done during the campaign, but just in case, secure an objective first. What may not be entirely apparent is that you need to take the objective reward in order for it to qualify.

First Strike5 (5)

Be the first to get an objective in game.

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Next, you'll need to win a match on every map in Factions mode. While this sounds like a daunting task, there is one saving grace: every 5-player map is also a 4-player map, and every 3-player map is also a 2-player map. If you're struggling or just want this game done quicker, stick to the 2-4 player variants.

Most of the time, anyway. You'll want to play at least one game with 5 players, and that's to control everyone's capital, including your own, at once. If possible, turn on every extra controller you have, but even with 4, you'll still have one CPU, which will be quickly forced out of the game when everyone controlled by you bum rushes them. With four controllers, place all human controlled capitals together simply for ease of capture, then steamroll away. Once the CPU is out of the way, capture every capital with your main account for the achievement.

Capitalize This28 (20)

Control 5 capitals.

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If you don't have enough controllers to make this viable, another way is to use a map that has the temple. If you control the temple, you can convert one area to your great nation every turn. Potential includes taking your opponents' highly occupied areas for a massive troop bonus or simply cut out the middle man and convert each capital. However, you must take the last one by force, or the achievement won't unlock.

Stick with the aforementioned 2- and 4-player games, and after completing every map (which, again, you can only do if you've unlocked the maps through campaign!) you'll pop another achievement. Continually alter who you're playing as and who you're fighting in order to top off the 100 necessary from each faction.

Destroyer15 (10)

Kill 100 human, cat, robot, yeti and zombie units.

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Secret Achievement63 (30)

Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement. (Secret)

Show secret details

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Live

The next few achievements require Xbox Live Gold for online multiplayer. To reiterate from the tips page, quitting out works on and off, so it's easier to play the games legitimately rather than hope quitting might work.

Man Up! is a viral achievement, so find someone who has the achievement, then beat them to unlock it for your massive increase of nothing.

Man Up!0 (0)

Defeat someone over Xbox LIVE who has earned the Man Up! achievement.

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Gather four other players and play Command Room in a ranked match, hosting the match yourself. If you're particularly enterprising, you could skip the five player local game and capture everyone's capital in this game to capitalize your time. Either way, win here for another achievement.

Master & Commander35 (15)

Win a 5 player ranked Command Room game on Xbox LIVE.

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From here, you need to win nine more games to finish off the online portion of this game. I cannot stress this enough, host each match yourself, especially if boosting. Two player matches are quickest to go by.

Soldier19 (10)

Play 5 games on Xbox LIVE.

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Glory Hunter55 (20)

Win 10 ranked games on Xbox LIVE.

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Ironman

This achievement is best done with a second player/controller. Without this and trying it solo, the achievement comes down to pure luck, with less than a 1% chance of happening normally.

When the game starts, you'll want two possible objective rewards from the game: Defense Die and Airport. If you don't see these, quit out and restart the game.

To start, each profile picks a side and at least one continent to take. This will be your source of troops for the game. When placing capitals, place your capital on the opposite side of the map: for instance, if player 1 takes the easternmost continents, place the capital on the western side. When the game starts, each player captures the opposing capital, thus preventing the game from ending too soon. Split the map in preparation as you see fit and choose a border to contest.

The achievement profile (P1) will complete the objective for Defense Die and Airport. Place the airport in an area adjacent to your border territory. If Guaranteed Card is in the list, have the second profile (P2) complete that objective for the extra troops. P2 will build up troops right on that border, while P1 will build up troops on their airport. When P2 has six troops, they should attack P1's area with 1 troop. Instead of attacking normally, hit right so that instead of attacking with three die, P2 is only attacking with one. This gives P1 the advantage of two die vs. one, plus the airport which adds one to whatever you roll, plus the defense advantage.

If P2 succeeds, pull every troop out of that territory in the same turn. On the next turn, P1 will attack said area with their airport troops and pull their troops back to the airport to effectively reset the area. Continue doing this until you've unlocked...

Ironman25 (20)

Defend a minimum of 5 attackers with one defender.

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Demon Child

The game doesn't get into overkills, but you may have seen it and its unique animations while playing. An overkill is rolling two 6s, which then destroys four troops instead of two. A super overkill is rolling three 6s, which decimates the entire force in the area, no matter how many troops they have. Additionally, for this to work, the opponent must not roll any 6s to counteract.

This is best done with three controlled players, although it's still doable with two. Choose a sizable three player map if possible.

When the game starts, check the objective rewards for: Guaranteed Card, 2 Troops, Attack Die. If all three are not available, quit the game and restart. This is where three players help, as there are more objectives and more areas on a three player map. Upon starting, split the map so that the achievement profile (P1) has half of the continents and the helper profile (P2) gets the other half. Both profiles should place their capital in the other player's territory. When the game starts, each side should take the other's capital immediately so the game won't end early. Gang up on P3 and kick them out of the game, they've served their purpose.

P1 should get Guaranteed Card and Attack Die, while P2 gets 2 Troops. This gives a steady influx of extra troops beyond the continent bonuses on both sides. P1 should place all of their troops in one border territory, whereas P2 should put a maximum of 50 troops in an area before adding more troops to an adjacent area. The goal is to have a string of 50 troop areas for P1 to eventually steamroll through. P1 should wait until they get 10 stars, then trade them in for 30 troops and an achievement.

Star Command37 (30)

Earn 10 stars and trade them for 30 troops.

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Continue like this back and forth until P1 has a minimum of 250 troops in their territory. With a handful of restarts to get the right objectives, it should take about an hour to reach this point. At this point, attack the string of 50 troop territories. Save yourself the time by pressing X to use Fast Attack. You'll know if you got a super overkill if the defending territory drops straight down to zero. Continue attacking these territories until there are no more 50 troop territories, then use your maneuver to put your troops back in the original border territory. On the next turn, P2 should attack through the 1 troop territories and start re-establishing their 50 troop territories.

Even with all this, the achievement still comes down to luck, but a bit of patience from here is all that's needed.

Demon Child66 (30)

Achieve 10 super overkills.

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Congratulations on finishing Risk: Factions!