Got a copy of Stratego (one of the old-style ones with descending rank, as pleases the gods) so I could show my board game loving girlfriend one of my favorite games from when I was a kid. She hated it.
It held up for me. I played a lot of Stratego with family and friends as a kid, but there was one friend in particular who routinely wiped the battlefield with my pieces. I couldn't understand how he so consistently beat me, and as an adult I was able to 1) reason more deeply about the game, and 2) quickly learn deeper strategy from the Internet. As a result, the game is even richer now to me than it was in the 1980s.
Seeing the paper title gave me so much nostalgia for playing Stratego as a kid, that was always my favorite Board game. Glad to see I’m not the only one who used to love that game, few of my friends growing up played it.
Stratego was probably my favorite board game as a kid, but, to be fair, when people these days say that they love board games what they probably mean is that they love Eurogames, which Stratego decidedly is not.
She’s one of the few people who can regularly beat me at war games. The Avalon Hill and GMT types. My favorite example is the time she carefully mislead me into believing that she hadn’t found the other end of a wormhole that opened near my home-world in a game of Space Empires 4x. Spent the whole game exploring and increasing ship speed and weapons just enough, waiting for me to commit my heavily armed, but slow-ish ships. Then, giggled, and sighed for relief, as she paid the overnight rate to send an armada to my doorstep. Oh, and time she slipped a WMD into the US in Labyrinth. Or in Starship Troopers..
She likes everything from Codenames to those Rosenberg games that are so heavy they should come with an OSHA training poster.
In Stratego she had bluffed me into believing her flag was in a corner.. But then she move a piece that I assumed was a bomb and her face gave away everything. But a momentary lapse of Stratego-face wasn’t the issue. Mostly, it was just too slow for her. Her last obsession was Tyrants of the Underdark. Deck building + area control.
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Got a copy of Stratego (one of the old-style ones with descending rank, as pleases the gods) so I could show my board game loving girlfriend one of my favorite games from when I was a kid. She hated it.
Did you still enjoy it? I loved playing this game with my Dad when I was a kid and I'm wondering if it still holds up.
It held up for me. I played a lot of Stratego with family and friends as a kid, but there was one friend in particular who routinely wiped the battlefield with my pieces. I couldn't understand how he so consistently beat me, and as an adult I was able to 1) reason more deeply about the game, and 2) quickly learn deeper strategy from the Internet. As a result, the game is even richer now to me than it was in the 1980s.
Played it recently with a 12 year old boy. He loves it.
Loved it. I still think it’s one of the best games out there. The best games tho: Neuroshima Hex! And 51st State from Portal games.
Seeing the paper title gave me so much nostalgia for playing Stratego as a kid, that was always my favorite Board game. Glad to see I’m not the only one who used to love that game, few of my friends growing up played it.
Stratego was probably my favorite board game as a kid, but, to be fair, when people these days say that they love board games what they probably mean is that they love Eurogames, which Stratego decidedly is not.
Yeah, no. She plays everything.
She’s one of the few people who can regularly beat me at war games. The Avalon Hill and GMT types. My favorite example is the time she carefully mislead me into believing that she hadn’t found the other end of a wormhole that opened near my home-world in a game of Space Empires 4x. Spent the whole game exploring and increasing ship speed and weapons just enough, waiting for me to commit my heavily armed, but slow-ish ships. Then, giggled, and sighed for relief, as she paid the overnight rate to send an armada to my doorstep. Oh, and time she slipped a WMD into the US in Labyrinth. Or in Starship Troopers..
She likes everything from Codenames to those Rosenberg games that are so heavy they should come with an OSHA training poster.
In Stratego she had bluffed me into believing her flag was in a corner.. But then she move a piece that I assumed was a bomb and her face gave away everything. But a momentary lapse of Stratego-face wasn’t the issue. Mostly, it was just too slow for her. Her last obsession was Tyrants of the Underdark. Deck building + area control.