I count myself among the RISK despisers. But i have also become somewhat bored of plain old A&A (heresy, i know!), so my brother and my friend and i decided to combine Risk with A&A, we haven’t finished our first game yet, but we are having so much fun!! We play with the A&A units and rules on the Risk board and it is every man for himself! It sort of takes on the best of both worlds in that you get to use the strategy and tactics of A&A while having the every-game-is-different-trash-talking-backstabing-goodness of Risk.
I also really enjoy the Lord of the Rings Risk, has anyone played that?