![]() ![]() Anyhow, it had Marshals, Colonels, Captains, and so on down the ranks to the lowly Scout only a very few pieces had any powers, and in almost all cases, the guy with the stronger piece would win an individual battle. Never trust a guy with a pornstache, says I, and that skeevy pervert totally looks like he's got some children locked in a basement somewhere. The first copy I ever saw was the 1970's version that had a Colonel Mustard-looking guy smiling across the board at you, holding a piece. Unfortunately, with regard to the new advanced rules, they literally destroyed what made classic Stratego what it is. Further, as I realized just recently after reflecting upon a thread at Fortress: Ameritrash, this is actually a hybrid combat/deduction game. All I know is that when I saw this sitting at my local Goodwill store for 4 bucks, complete, I could not help but buy it to see whether my nostalgia for the game was ill-conceived.Īs it turns out, now that I've been playing hobby games for a great while, I understand with great clarity that this game is literally a great grandfather to games like Dungeon Twister, or other more European style confrontational games. To me, this speaks to the broad appeal and longevity of the game's core mechanics, and to Hasbro's apparent ideology that freshening up games for the iPad generation can sell more units. ![]() Recent versions have tried to spice up (read: bastardize) the game with all kinds of new skins and special powers, such as a Lord of the Rings and Star Wars version, and this latest iteration, a generic fantasy version. If you haven't heard of the old Hasbro game, Stratego, you've been hiding under a rock for 30 years. It's actually quite brilliant, according to her gleeful smiles as she trounced the shit out of me not via luck, but by being a clever little turd. She immediately fell deeply in love with it, because it's simple to learn, relatively quick, but has enough strategy to feel like it's not a total waste of time. Anyhow, a couple nights back we broke out Stratego: Fire and Ice, and playing the basic "classic" rules, we played a couple of games. Angel Baron won the bronze, the first American winner since the competition began in 1997.Over spring break I've been introducing my 12 year old daughter to some of my more advanced games because most of her friends are away with family and whatnot, but since we're moving soon we're preserving our vacation time for the move and so here she sits, with only a couple of neighborhood friends to hang with. Tim Slagboom from the Netherlands won the gold in 2019. Several Stratego competitions are held throughout the world, including a World Championship held in the Netherlands. Lot’s and lot’s of themed versions were also produced, like Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, American Civil War, and Democrats vs. There are now several versions including the original, a science fiction version, and a fantasy character version called Fire & Ice. Sub-licensed in 1961 Milton Bradley the game became available for American distribution. In 1942 Jacques Johan Mogendorff with its Napoleonic imagery was licensed in the Netherlands. The game, called L'attaque was invented in France by Hermance Eden around 1910 and made its way to Great Britain a little before World War One. ![]() Early pieces were cardboard in metal clips, then painted wood and then silver embossed plastic and, these days, stickers on plastic. New variant versions of the game have different types of pieces, like archers and cannons. In the two player game each side gets 20 pieces: 8 scouts, 6 Bombs, 5 miners, 3 majors, 2 colonels, one each marshal, general, spy, flag, and 4 each sergeants, lieutenants, captains. The name Stratego is from the ancient Greek meaning leader of an army. Stratego is a simple game of capture the flag inside a 10” by 10” board, blue versus red, with ten different troops, one flag each, and several bombs to protect a chosen strategy. ![]()
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