These two new AL East teams in our division decided to trade in their Risk cards and deploy all 30 of their new armies in Scandinavia, Ukraine, North, South and Western Europe and we're left clinging to Great Britain with our 5 measly armies waiting to be bludgeoned out of existence.
There's optimism, there's stick-to-a-tive-ness, unflagging determination, yada yada yada. Then there's blindness. The one is admirable. The other is stupid.
To use another metaphor, the legendary courage among the 100 men at the Alamo was, if legend be correct, admirable. But once there were, what, over 1,000 Mexican troops at the gates with cannons and all hope of timely aid from Sam Houston was lost, the outcome was a foregone conclusion and those inside knew it. They might fight extra smart, extra hard, profit from the best of luck...and only postpone their fate by an hour or so.