Not as interesting as the history I have with loose women and cheap vodka, but that history is shorter and includes more humiliation and painful hangovers. This is just a good, old-fashioned great freaking game - but as I mentioned, I have a history with Stratego. My son asks to play it with me regularly, and even my daughter will play now and then. I loved it as a kid, I love it as an adult, and the new stuff just makes it more fun. I'm having a hard time presenting an objective opinion on the new Stratego.
RULES FOR STRATEGO GAME MOVIE
To accurately describe the dramatic turns of event, I would need to employ that 'In A World.' voiceover guy who used to make movie trailers, but he just died, so you'll have to take my word for it. Oh, and it's really hard to get your slayer next to the dragon now. The entire board can shift every turn, and one quick maneuver can end up tilting the balance. No more one-space-at-a-time strategic maneuvers or stealthy bluffs. I can't emphasize enough what a huge difference these new abilities make - Stratego turns into an entirely different game. But the biggest difference is the dragon, who can now fly over the entire field as long as he can land on an empty spot, and then attack, and since he's the toughest dude in the game, that's a heck of a power. Sorceresses can make your opponent's guys change sides (I think they seduce them, which is inappropriate in a kid's game, but I'm OK with it). Elves can shoot at targets when they're not adjacent.
If you play the expanded version of the new Stratego, you get to add in a bunch of special powers. You have to know when to reveal strength, when to hide your power, when to act tough and when to run like your ass was on fire and your balls were catching. There's a lot of strategy in the setup, and you have to play well, too. It's all very simple, but the game's name is truth in advertising - serious strategy goes into this game. And if it's a trap, you're dead regardless, unless you're attacking with a dwarf, who can disarm the trap. More often, one player will discover the other guy's dragon, kill it with his slayer, and then have carte blanche to chew the rest of the other team to kibbles.Ĭombat is a simple affair - you spin your piece around to show your opponent what's attacking, and then he spins his around to show what just got hit. You can win by sneaking in and grabbing the flag while the rest of your army is becoming dog food. If you can kill all his guys, that makes it easier to find the flag, but it's not the point.
The object of the game is to find your opponent's flag. You could be approaching with a dragon, or you might be bluffing and you're about to attack his lava monster with a clown midget moonlighting from his porn job (technically, the porn is his moonlighting gig - the clown thing is his main income, but he gets a kick out of telling children that he makes adult movies). All your pieces are hidden, so the enemy doesn't know which guys are which. You set up on an eight-by-eight grid, with your guys in the back three rows of your side. You can play classic Stratego by only using the special powers on the scouts, dwarves and slayer (they used to be scouts, miners and assassins, in case you're familiar with the original), or you can kick it up a notch and play with the new rules.įor the uninitiated, the rules for Stratego are pretty easy. The new Stratego doesn't have a new name, but it totally should, so as not to confuse it with the old one. So I was skeptical, but excited to try it.
On the other hand, they replaced the Napoleonic theme of the original with a fantasy thing - beast riders and wizards and knights and dragons - and they added a bunch of new abilities. On the one hand, I wanted to play this with my kids. When I heard that there had been a re-release of Stratego, my feelings were a little mixed. By ninth grade, I was the school champion of Stratego (I went to boarding school in Africa. My dad didn't believe in giving me freebies, so I got my ass handed to me the first dozen times I played, but I got better, and eventually gave him a run for his money. And one of my favorite games as a kid was Stratego. Other fond memories include punching my little brothers or being terrified of girls, but the games were better, and included fewer wet willies or painful rejections. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of playing board games with my old man.
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