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Online Flash game -- Dice Wars.

Dice Wars is a strategy game, where you must defeat the other players and gain control of the map. You play against up to eight computer opponents, on a variety of maps.
You play as blue and the territories controlled by you are marked in blue. The strength of each territory is shown by a stack of dice, the bigger the stack the better.
You can have a maximum of eight dice on any territory, giving you a maximum attack strength of forty eight (8* the dice face value of 6). Although you could also achieve a total of just eight (8* the dice face value of 1).

Each player takes a turn attacking and when a player ends his turn, he is awarded an extra dice for each territory he controls, but only for the largest group of adjacent territories. So if a player has a group of five territories, a group of three territories and two isolated territories, he will ony receive five extra dice.
The extra dice are distributed randomly across all of a players territories.
It is not possible to move dice from one territory to another, to bolster your defences, the only way to move dice is to attack.

I hope I have explained that well enough, as there are no instructions with the game and initially the game appears to move so fast, that it is hard to tell what is happening, but after a few games, all becomes clear.

The game graphics are nice and simple, so that you can see the state of play easily. As the computer performs each attack, the territories involved are highlighted and the status panel at the bottom of the screen shows who is attacking who and how many extra dice they have been awarded.
Sound effects are limited to a dull thunk if an attack is successful and a high beep if it fails.

When playing, it's best to avoid having isolated single territories, they contribute no extra dice and can receive some of the extra dice generated by your main group, so I found the best strategy is to weaken these areas so that they are attacked by other players, you can then concentrate all your power on your main group of territories.
Towards the end of the game a stalemate type situation can occur, particularly at defensive bottle necks on the map, but you can eventually wear down a weaker enemy by continually attacking.

I greatly enjoyed playing Dice Wars, it is quite challenging. Personally I prefer to play against two or three computer players, as it is too easy to win against large numbers of players.
If you like strategy games, you will have an absorbing few hours playing Dice Wars. Because of the lack of a help file, I would suggest copying and pasting my game description to a text file for reference.

Loading time approx one minute on a 56k connection.

http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html

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