Risk Godstorm is a Risk variant board game published by Avalon Hill and designed by Mike Selinker with developers Richard Baker and Michael Donais. The cultures of the Celts, Norse, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians clash for supremacy of the ancient world. Players invade territories, play miracle cards, sink Atlantis, and conquer the underworld. The latter is a significant addition to the Risk series, as soldiers do not leave the game when they are killed, but instead go to their heavens and then embark to take over the underworld.

Each player has a pantheon of four gods to bring onto the ancient world map, to whom the game ascribes the spheres of the Sky, War, Death and Magic. Respectively, these are:

• Marduk, Gilgamesh, Druaga and Ishtar for the Babylonians.
• Lugh, Nuada, Arawn and Brigid for the Celts.
• Ra, Set, Osiris and Isis for the Egyptians.
• Zeus, Ares, Hades and Hekate for the Greeks.
• Odin, Thor, Loki and Freya for the Norse.

The ancient world map contains the following continents:

• Germania, which contains Hibernia, Caledonia, Anglia, Thule, Varangia, Galicia, Alemannia, Gaul, and Iberia.
• Hyrkania, which contains Rus, Scythia, Cimmeria, and Sarmatia.
• Europa, which contains Liguria, Dalmatia, Dacia, Thracia, Roma, Apulia, Corsica, Sicilia, Graecia, Minoa, Ionia, and Anatolia.
• Asia Minor, which contains Phoenicia, Assyria, Parthia, Sumer, Babylon, and Sheba.
• Africa, which contains Atlas, Carthage, Gaitulia, Cyrenaica, Nubia, Egypt, and Kush.
• Atlantis, which contains the fictional territories Hesperide, Poseidonis, Tritonis, and Oricalcos.

The underworld is bordered by five heavens:

• Kurnugia for the Babylonians.
• Avalon for the Celts.
• Duat for the Egyptians.
• Elysium for the Greeks.
• Valhalla for the Norse.

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