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[maneuver7]

Hi everybody,

I love to play stratego online. Memorizing figures is maybe a little difficult. But it's still the greatest strategy game. Can you tell me why it is so unknown in the scene?

[Archetype]

I love stratego! Have also thought the unknown enemy mechanic is cool, which is the big reason of why I like it. Custom designed armies are also a blast.

And Stretego Online? Where? I used to own the PC game a while ago, but I never knew they created an actual website for it.

[Morgrim7]

Stretego Online? Where?

[Davio]

Stratego is pretty easy to play through PBF I think...

[Lekkit]

I played Stratego when I was younger. I didn't really get it then, though. I've had thoughts about picking it up now that I'm older. It really looks like a game I would like (and not be bad at).

[Robz888]

I love Stratego! I'm not great at it though.

[Davio]

I wonder how much of Stratego is actually rock, paper, scissors.
Especially when you play a lot against the same player.

[Kuildeous]

It kind of is….but with a bigger circle.

And a lot of bluffing.

[Electra]

I play this online all the time. There are memorizer tools too. Then you can focus on tactics.

@Davio  it's alot Rock Paper Scissors, but how come you Dutch guys always win?   

[popsofctown]

I hate memory as a game mechanic, with a flaming passion.

[shMerker]

I like the house rule of, you flip a piece on it's back once you've revealed what it is. So if you attack with something or you move a scout more than one space at a time you reveal it and now that's something your opponent knows and that you know he knows. It doesn't entirely eliminate the memory element because you don't have to reveal on defense so you have to keep track of which pieces have failed their attacks, but it does focus the game a little more on tactics and bluffing.

[popsofctown]

We play that house rule too.

The "Silent Defense" rule is actually listed as a variant rule, not a default, at least in the copy of Stratego I have.  (the main rules tell you to announce the value of both pieces, then on the back page on suggested variant rules it talks about letting the defender just say whether the attack failed or not.

[StrongRhino]

Have this game.
I usually play that when you attack, only the defender reveals.

[Electra]

I hate memory as a game mechanic, with a flaming passion.

Thank you, I love to hear that I'm not alone with that passion.

[Qvist]

I like this game also a lot, but I haven't played this since a long time.
On a side note: Has anyone tried out "Confusion - Espionage and Deception in the Cold War" ?

[mcmcsalot]

I love Stratego! I'm not great at it though.

Yea this is one of those games I feel we had assumed we thought up some great strategies, bomb locking and front loading, that are in reality basic strategies that are not used in high skill play. Hmm reminds me of another game ahemcoppersmithahem...

[shMerker]

Yeah I'm a big fan of putting all of my bombs around a 7 so my opponent goes to all the trouble of getting a miner through because why would there be all these bombs if not to protect the flag. When he finally does start taking them out I make a big show of  how worried I am that he'll punch all the way through before I can locate his flag. It's great when it works but it probably never works on anyone who has played more than once.

[Davio]

Yeah I'm a big fan of putting all of my bombs around a 7 so my opponent goes to all the trouble of getting a miner through because why would there be all these bombs if not to protect the flag. When he finally does start taking them out I make a big show of  how worried I am that he'll punch all the way through before I can locate his flag. It's great when it works but it probably never works on anyone who has played more than once.

The beauty is that it might actually work.
At its core it's just a guessing game.

If you're playing against a guy who has played 1000's of games against all kinds of people, but not against you, he might think you're a newbie who just plants bombs around his flag.

I wonder if the game actually becomes more fun if you play it more often against the same person or less fun, there's probably some optimal value, I'm going to say 42.

[shMerker]

Yeah I've never played enough to really know how much tactics influences things vs. just reading the opponent's mind. I'm terrible at mind-reading games myself. I spent a whole afternoon once playing abstract chess against my then-girlfriend and I was something like 0-100 by the end. I really thought I would win a few times too.

[StrongRhino]

I usually put my flag right behind the water gap, no one expects it to be there.
I'm not a fan of front-bombing, but front loading I do use.
I'm sure I could be playing a lot better, but whatever.

[enfynet]

I played a game against someone that had no legal first move because they blocked their entire front line with bombs...