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Stratego
by Milton Bradley
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This memory was added on: February 21,2007
My older brother and I used to play this. He usually won until I found a new strategy. I'd use most of my bombs to surround a decoy and then put my flag behind just one bomb. It didn't always work, but when it did...oh the power of beating him! I think we used the "kablooey" term too.
Dea
1965
This memory was added on: October 24, 2006
My husband and i have this one, niether one of us knew that it was a retro game we saw it in a toy store recently and thought oh this looks really fun wow we're enjoying a classic
Natasha
1978
tashie216@aol.com
This memory was added on: July 23,2006
LOVED this game. One of my all time favorites, along with Clue. I have a wooden set. Sorry to see "they" ruined it in the sense of reversing the #s as to which pieces rank. I remember I used to put a few nines up front to scout...reserve my miner 8s to the back and only pull them up to front after I figured out where teh opponents strong hold was. I'd put my 3s and 4s not in my second rank, and get a lay of the land. Then I'd keep the spy near the flag...figuring the 1 would eventually head for the flag.
My friend, Nora, and I used to play a variant. We'd put all our pieces faces down and shuffle them around....then we had to set them up in order we picked them up from front row to back, left or right. Which REALLY made you "make do." VERY unpredictable game them.
Battleship was great too.
Karen
1956
This memory was added on: July 8,2006
Ahhh Stratego one of my favorite games of all-time. My brother 3 1/2 years my senior, beat me all the time, it only made me a better player. He tortured me I remember one game where he stationed 7's and 6's on the borders because they were the highest pieces on the board until I couldn't move....dam him!
Thomas
1965
tomas@bis.midco.net
This memory was added on: December 24,2005
Stratego is a fantastic game. I used to go on a cycling trips in holland, and every single youth hostel had a copy, so I would play them each time with my dad or my brother. (I was around 8-10) When we stopped doing those holidays I decided I wanted my own copy, so I got one for my birthday. It's always a great game to play.
Will
7/10/92
w.g.lloyd@btinternet.com
This memory was added on: October 27,2005
When the last time I played Stratego, I got my brother's flag even though I lost my 1,3,4,4,and four scouts but won by a lucky out-of-boundes miner!
Enimlike
10-4-123b.c.
kjghsriuth
This memory was added on: October 27,2005
When I started playing Stratego,I always used a General[#2] to get my opponent's Colonels-Miners [#3-#8] and use my Miners to sneek past the enemy lines and disarm enemy Bombs. I have a hint about the setup called:Blitzering? Ha! I forgot. When you set up you put your Genral in the front lines sorounded by high ranking officers or Scouts [#9] or both! I forgot again! Just in case, go to http://www.edcollins.com/stratego.Then tell me if I am correct!
Quikeit
January 1st, 1979
4844I8Y8OAWEFO74
This memory was added on: May 7,2005
I played a recent version of this game & it's backwards from the original!! In the original, the men that took out the mines were number "8". Now they are number "3". The strongest men were lower numbers, now they are higher numbers. Confusing!
Jim
1968
This memory was added on: January 28,2005
We had this game. My brother loved it, but I hated it. It reminded me of chess. Any game where you have to think that much wasn't fun for me then. I would just move random pieces so that I would lose as quickly as possible.
Andrea
1971
This memory was added on: July 25,2004
We used to play a variation when we got bored of the normal rules. We'd turn all the pieces around so you couldn't see me, but your opponent could. Kinda stupid now that I'm older (35) but at the time we thought we were pretty slick. There was another one based on this premise, but it had kings and knights. The pieces fit into holes on a plastic board and you had 'catapults' which were just little bellows that would blow air thru tubes in the bottom of the board and cause some pieces to pop off. Wish I remembered the name of that one....
SnipeHunter
1968
This memory was added on: July 24,2004
Me and my brother used to play this all the time. It was a great strategic game and enabled us to have hours of fun playing game after game.
Mikiey
1973
mikiey@hiwaay.net
This memory was added on: July 17,2004
George Dunne
1966
Georgedunne@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 17,2004
It was an sunny summer afternoon ritual to play Stratego after lunch in the early 1980's, on one my friend's stoop in Brooklyn. The games would end just in time to catch GET SMART on the tube. I could really bluff my opponent; make a scout[#9] chase down a general[#2].
George Dunne
1966
georgedunne@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: February 24,2004
Spent a considerable amount of time playing this game. Everytime one of our pieces would hit the bomb we made a large "BOOM" noise.
Bill
1962
wrbusmc@charter.net
This memory was added on: January 9,2004
I used to think the Old Guy on the Box was cool
EJ
1971
This memory was added on: September 3,2003
I first played this game at my old freind Tim Clair's house in the mid 70's. I have a few of these game boards. I also have one that is a electronic verson sold in the 1980's called (The Generals). Stratego was and is still a easy and fun Game.
Mike
1959
This memory was added on: August 21,2003
LOVED THIS GAME!!! we played this for years... tirelessly.. hours on end! the winners developed a sort of "flick of the wrist snap" when capturing the losing opponent's flag!
HEY! MY EYE!!!!
carrie-ann
1961
ca_mohr@msn.com
This memory was added on: August 11,2003
Kabloooey!!!!!
That's what we used to say when an attacking piece hit one of our bombs.
Lots of great memories from this game.
Stra -- tee --- go!!!!
Nick
1959
nabramo@starbulletin.com
This memory was added on: July 7,2003
Yuck hated that game so boring everyone wanted to play it but me! I'm the minority for the hatred of Stratego the most painful game on the planet
Leezie
1975
This memory was added on: June 3,2003
Have an original game that I picked up at yard sale and a new set that I still love to play. One of my all time favorite games.
Steve
1957
slbradley@goeaston.net
This memory was added on: May 22,2003
This was my first war game, we could feel the experience of being almost in battle. What grat joy that game gave me. I spend hour poayng and never got tired.. Now i make dioramas in 1/72 scale, but in my mind they are still static wargames like stratego
Virgilio gomez
1960
virgiliogomes@yahoo,com
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