![]() ![]() New user on the sub? Please make sure you read our rules below and check out our Contribution Guides since we have additional rules regarding specific topics. Same strategy.Flair icons are BoardGameGeek microbadges and are used with permission. (Footnote: the new version of Stratego has the strongest guy as a 10 instead of a 1. (We are happily married with 4 great children…and have never played Stratego again.)Īnyone else have a strategy that has worked well for you? Anyone else been defeated by your wife? Comment below. “It’s a trap!” She had been sandbagging games 5-8 so that I would forget about the strategy she used. About a week before our wedding, we were playing again, and she used her game 4 strategy, but I wasn’t prepared for it. We got engaged, but she still hadn’t beat me. I didn’t think to much about it, and we played a few more games. Game 5 I played to combat what my future wife had done in game 4, but she didn’t do it again. We played about 8 games of Stratego and number 4 was pretty close. She loved playing games, but just couldn’t beat me. I always joked with my family that I wouldn’t marry anyone that couldn’t beat me is Stratego. At this point, it is just about mopping things up. Eventually, you have a guy that cannot be killed. Keep up the strategy, trading for their 3s if they show up. Eventually, they will have to use their 2 to stop you, but then you bring out your 3s. Your 2 basically has free reign to kill anyone that moves. Use your 1 and go straight for the kill (watching out for their spy). They will always look at their 1 or spy to see how to kill you, then once you draw out their 1, don’t even worry about using your spy. Once you reveal your high guy, watch their eyes. Kill the target with someone strong (consider using your 1 or 2, just don’t let them lure your 1 into a spy kill. (anyone from 6 and lower can get you going on the trading strategy). You really want to test around with your scouts until you find someone good to kill. Conservative playĭon’t reveal your strongest guys early on. It helps to have your 1, 2 and 3 accessible, but not on the front line, but once again, you don’t want to be predictable. It helps to have scouts towards the front to gather intelligence. The rest of your guys just randomize conservatively. If you don’t move it around in subsequent games, they may win on an all our rush, so just randomize. It doesn’t really matter where you put the flag, as long as it is in the back row, and protected by bombs. Sometimes you get lucky and they will attack with a high guy on your bomb, but if they are playing conservatively, it won’t ever work, and you won’t be able to move your guys where you want them. Some people try to be cute and put bombs on the front line, or just behind the lake. He won that one.ĭon’t make the same mistake. If I would have played properly, I would have had a bomb in the way of the flag, but I didn’t. He slipped a guy down the side and went straight across the back, killing everyone. I was implementing the strategy and was killing all of the other players guys systematically, and he went for broke. Bomb PlacementĪfter developing the Straight Across Trading Strategy, the first time I lost, I was cocky and left my flag open on one side. I’ll describe each piece of the strategy below. In the end, you win if all their guys are dead which makes for a much more systematic win. Most people try going for the flag in Stratego, and most people expect you to be looking for their flag. his 2 with your 2, his 3 with your 3, until you have a piece that cannot be killed. Once you have one piece up, kill his 1 with your 1.Play conservative in the beginning until you have one piece up on the opponent.Randomize your other pieces, but ensure that you have scouts towards the front.Safely randomize where you put your flag, but usually towards the back.Never block your flow of traffic with bombs.This is called the Straight Across Trading Strategy (comment if you have a better name for it.) I have only lost twice since then, and I’ve learned from both losses that I’ll mention below. When I was about 11, I decided I wasn’t going to lose anymore and I came up with a strategy that has worked many times since. As a dad now, I realize that my dad may have let me win. I remember playing over and over again and beating my dad, but never beating my older brother. ![]() I played these games over and over with my siblings and my dad. (Monopoly, Risk, Stratego, Battleship, Scrabble). The main ones are still best sellers today. In the old days there were really only a few games that everyone owned. ![]()
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