How are initial territories assigned?
In the U.K. rules and the 1959 U.S. rules, the Risk cards are dealt out as evenly as possible (omitting the jokers), and each player then places one army from their initial allocation of armies in each territory thus assigned to them. In later U.S. rules, the start is not determined using the cards; players take turns putting armies in unoccupied territories until each territory has one unit. In the 1959 U.S. version, players start with only the one army per territory. In all other versions, after each territory has a single army, players take turns distributing the remainder of their armies, one a time, on their territories. In the old U.K. rules, you can place at most 4 armies in a single territory at setup. The new U.K. rules and the U.S. sets have no such limit. The total number of armies per player is the same in most versions except the 1959 U.S. edition, and depends on the number of players: 6 players – 20 armies each 5 players – 25 armies each 4 players – 30 armies each 3 playe
