![]() If you like games that help you refine your wits while also living out your dream as a military captain, then Stratego is definitely the game for you. In other words, tons of fun for everyone! Stratego rules can be a bit tricky to learn at first, but once you get the hang of them, they are simple enough for young children to grasp while also having a depth of strategy satisfying to adults. There are now four-handed versions available to play with different modifications and online versions, too (if you don’t have the board game at home). Based loosely on an early twentieth-century French game called L’Attaque, Stratego has been played in Europe since World War II and in the U.S. Stratego is typically a two-person strategic game appropriate for players over eight years old, making it a terrific game for the whole family. And nothing beats breaking up the monotony of a rainy day (or quarantine) - and getting those brain cells churning - like a good old-fashioned strategic board game. The verdict - although largely based on chance, it is still a very attractive "strategy-puzzle" game.Let’s face it: Everyone loves a good challenge. It's simply not worth talking about the graphics - in such games it does not become outdated, although one cannot fail to mention the excellently drawn backgrounds on which our bloodless battles take place (they can be chosen from a small set). A scoreboard is located in the upper right part of the screen, which helps to keep track of all current game events (who is walking now, what move is in a row, how many soldiers are left in the battle, and so on). It is pleasant to note that the interface in this game is very clear and “friendly”. The goal is to destroy all enemy units in this way, or most of them, reaching the enemy flag. If units of equal rank converge, both of them are “removed”. ![]() The square with the defeated military unit is "removed" from the game (the square disappears). There is no way to know which unit is on the attacked square of the enemy until we attacked it, so there is a rather significant element of randomness in the game. When we make our move to the cell occupied by the enemy (that is, already marked with “not our” color), the battle begins, the one with the stronger unit always wins (that is, if, for example, “general” and “marshal” grabbed then the “marshal” will always win, regardless of who attacked first). The spy is interesting in that, as such, he is completely defenseless, but if he attacks the enemy marshal first, he always kills him. In addition to the troops themselves, there are also special "parts" - spies and the aforementioned sappers. The flag cannot be moved, its capture, as already mentioned, automatically brings victory. Also in the game there is a cell occupied by the flag of the army. Bombs cannot be moved, but they are extremely dangerous - any soldiers are blown up on them, with the exception of sappers. The game is turn-based, in one move each military unit (except the weakest - the "scouts": they can move as many cells as they like) can only move one cell. Initially, forty such "pieces" of land are under our control (they look like cells marked on the playing field with squares of "our" color), five bombs and nine types of soldiers placed on these squares (all of them correspond to any military ranks, the highest - "marshal", lower - "scout"). The ultimate goal is to capture the enemy's flag and keep your own. The task is to capture the territory of the opponent in “parts”. ![]() Stratego - "Desktop" strategy (although to be honest - much closer to the puzzle), so to speak, a variant of Capture the Flag.
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