way more randomness: you have a risk board and every players get's 3 or 4 territories randomly which would be his SCs, maybe some neutrals also randomly...
would make every game truly different...
and i've been thinking about this one:
every SC has a resource, either for normal units (no fleets, but army includes tanks so didn't want to say that...), tank divisions or missiles, so 3 resources, spread over the SCs and every turn you get one resource of the one displayed by the SCs you're in, when you ahve enough resources you could build the units, normal units 1 resource, tanks 5, missiles 10 (of their own resource of course), then, there's no supporting thing, and when 2 infantry divisions (just thought of that, instead of normal units) face eachother they both die, same counts for 2 tank divisions, for inf. vs tank tank wins, and missiles could be fired one time and kill all units on 1 territory...
all numbers i just made up and might not be balanced yet...
few extra rules not mentioned yet:
more units are allowed on the same territory
units that die obviously get disbanded, no retreating in this game...
taking all SCs seems perfectly fine to me since then you could change the tide near the end when you finally get that missile...
draws are still a possibility...
so, that was it, it's not diplomacy anymore really but it's a nice and diplomatic game to me and it shouldn't be extermely hard to change, the resources might be but then you could decide you can't stock them and/or there is only one resource...
or inf has to be placed immediatly...
or everything as soon as you get it, missiles being stand-by i guess...
i've made it for risk-board with random start but again don't know wether that's fair or anything...
other ideas: involve planes, they move faster, they are maybe stronger but can't take SCs, or they can only support, and of course they can fly above both land and sea... could be added to above or just this variant...
i think that was all, if it's too hard for this site or something then i would still like maps and additional/different rules, to play with friends...
if anyone knows another place to say this tell...