Stratego Board Game

Easy game to learn, challenging to master! What a fun game. I recently played this at a winter retreat with my 3 boys, lousy weather pushed us inside and this game was available. It has been around for a long time and I never played it, looking at the pieces you would almost think it would be really lame and boring. We literally played this game for hours! I ordered the day that I got home. My kids were pleased to see that the pieces were updated from the old "knights and castle" style to new robot warrior style. Regardless the game play is great. My youngest boy is 8 and the eldest is 12, the whole family has enjoyed the game. You will want to add this to your game collection if you love strategy games the way we do, or if you just want a game that is short and has some challenge to it. Worth every penny, listening to my boys play in the other room as I am typing this review.

I played this game as a kid with my brothers and for the price you just can't beat this item. Arrived asap and in flawless condition. Stratego is a 1v1 strategy game, that requires heavy bluffing and deceit to be a master of this game. Risk was always my favorite for group games but you certainly can't always have a lot of people readily available to spend 4-6 hours playing a board game, so I recommend this for small games instead of Risk. Try this awesome board game out with your, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, brothers, and sisters and I guarantee you will have a blast.

Not classic Stratego. Fewer total pieces, which simplifies the game, which makes learning easier but reduces complexity potential simply through possible combinations/options. Plus the numbers are inverted from what I remember...1 used to be the Marshall, I think, reinforced by my memory of the miners as 8s. But now 10 is the Marshall, 3 is the miner, and the rest of the pieces fall in line with strength building as the numbers increase. This should make learning a little more intuitive for new players, but rubbed me a little wrong.This version also adds in unique low-value pieces that add some fun strategy to the game (that I don't remember being in the classic version), but felt cumbersome on the small game board (smaller to accommodate the fewer number of pieces). Overall, it's a good game. 5 stars for Stratego being a great introductory strategy game. Minus one star for requiring the owner to apply stickers to all the game pieces and its deviations from my golden memories of the classic version.

Stratego will satisfy any strategy / war freak -- the boyfriend / father / nephew / brother who loves war / strategy games. Half the game is the board set up -- deciding where to place your scouts, flag, bombs, bomb-defusers (miners), and powerful pieces. The other half is figuring out what your opponent's pieces are and how best to neutralize them in order to find their flag. It's deep, cerebral play that will entertain and puzzle for hours.

I got this game because I remembered playing it when I was younger and now my friends and fiance can't get enough of this game! Its really fun for younger kids but also strategically challenging for adults if you want to play. :D The board game is a mix of chess and capture the flag and is an awesome gift and a great buy for yourself and friends. It sounds easy and childish but you get into this game very quickly.

I just got it today and to be honest the only good thing about it is the box that it came in!! if you changed the game rules by reducing the number of pieces and changing the unit structure then you don't get to call it with the same original game name as the older version, first of all you have to assemble the game pieces your self "yes you have to stick all the stickers to the 60 game pieces-20 mins of my life that I never get back"! they reduced a number of key units like the scout from 8 to 5, bombs from 6 to 5, and many other fun reductions over all 40 play pieces has been reduced to 30 per player!This is not the original Stratego and don't bother buying the other cheap version of the "classic" stratego unless you want to ruin your childhood memories of that game, apparently it looks cheap as well as this version, google classic stratego and you will get the difference.I believe on the other hand people who never played the game will find this or any other version fun

Kids seem to like this game better than the original because it is faster and easier to play. Strategy is not as important any more. It is also harder to maintain due to the Spotter piece. The Spotter lets you remove any piece if you can guess its number. The Spotter lets you win by luck.Setting up the game is more difficult as you no longer have the plastic trays to organize your pieces before you place them on the board. It also made it harder to determine which pieces your opponent still since you could not easily see what pieces you had removed.Initial setup involves placing stickers on all of the pieces. These stickers do not stick well so plan on spending a lot of time trying to determine what the blank piece used to be before its sticker went missing.

This is a game that my daughter and I can enjoy over and over again. A board version of capture the flag, this strategy game is quite simple to play and understand, while at the same time providing a lot of thought-provoking strategy from set-up through play. Even after playing many times, I still learn a lot about strategy each time I play it. And no two games ever work out the same.