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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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.