I'd argue that it's not that the new rules are "bad" in the sense that they don't work, it's that The funny thing is that the art looks straight out of Heroscape, down to the "Lava Monster" creature that looks a hell of a lot like a Marro Warrior, if you know what that is. Not so any more, because with this latest "Fire And Ice" version, gone are the military ranks, replaced by mostly generic fantasy wankers such as the Dragon, Mage, Elf, and Dwarf. The only way to know what rank the other guy's piece is was to attack it, which forced you to make incredibly tough decisions that delivered a very palpable tension. 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. 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. There have been 70,517 plays and 12 likes from 19 votes since. This game is MS-DOS emulated, hence you can not use the mouse to play. The goal of the game is to strike the enemy’s flag while defending your own. Each piece has their own movement rules and the units can only destroy or attack those with lower ranks than them. In this game, the player is allotted 40 pieces in the beginning of the game, and it’s up to the player where to place them. Similar to chess in many ways and can be compared to the Japanese Shogi, but only set in the modern age with guns and bombs. The game is based on Milton Bradley’s classic board game of the same name and features all tradition gameplay and mechanics. Stratego is a classic strategy board/war game released back in 1990 for the MS-DOS platform. Play the classic war simulation game right in your browser in this solid computer version of the Milton Bradley’s board game – Stratego! Deploy your units at the right spot and carefully choose your moves to secure the victory.
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