The United States trademark was filed in 1958 and registered in 1960 to Jacques Johan Mogendorff and is presently owned by Jumbo Games as successors to Hausemann and Hotte, headquartered in the Netherlands. The name Stratego was first registered in 1942 in the Netherlands. strategus) for leader of an ancient (especially Greek) army: first general. Stratego is from the French or Greek strategos (var. The International Stratego Federation, the game's governing body, sponsors an annual Stratego World Championship. There are also variant pieces and different rulesets. There are now two- and four-player versions, versions with 10, 30 or 40 pieces per player, and boards with smaller sizes (number of spaces). It has been in production in Europe since World War II and the United States since 1961. The game is a slightly modified copy of an early 20th century French game named L'Attaque (" The Attack"). Stratego has simple enough rules for young children to play but a depth of strategy that is also appealing to adults. The objective of the game is to find and capture the opponent's Flag, or to capture so many enemy pieces that the opponent cannot make any further moves. Each player controls 40 pieces representing individual officer and soldier ranks in an army. I won't say beating the AI is impossible, but at the very least the game should offer a choice of skill levels.Stratego ( / s t r ə ˈ t iː ɡ oʊ/ strə- TEE-goh) is a strategy board game for two players on a board of 10×10 squares. Plus, the AI is what I'd call overly aggressive, as it never forgets the location of your pieces (once revealed) the way a human would. I also found Stratego to be pretty buggy, alternately crashing, producing error messages, or having trouble signing into Facebook. Unfortunately, I saw a lot of this message during testing. If it doesn't detect an Internet connection, it'll let you play offline. That's insanely annoying, but at least there's a workaround: turn off Wi-Fi (and/or 3G if you have it) before launching the game. The iPad version requires you to create an account or sign in via Facebook (sorry - no GameCenter support), even if you want single-player action against the computer. That would be fine if this were a freemium title, but here it seems a little greedy. (Use an app like Appsfire Deals to track its price.) What's more, you must buy "battle coins" if you want to unlock new avatars, battlefields, and other game content. That strikes me as a little steep, though it's a good bet it'll be cheaper down the road. On the iPad it'll cost you $6.99 for the privilege. Of course, Web and Facebook strategists (Stratego-ists?) get to play for free. Yep, the game supports cross-platform play, so you can tackle Facebook friends just as easily as you would your fellow iPad owners. For starters, you can create and save multiple board setups (i.e., troop deployments), a huge time-saver and a great way to test how various deployments work against your opponents.Īnd speaking of opponents, the app lets you play against a virtually unlimited supply of other humans, be they on Facebook, the Web, or another iPad. That curiosity aside, Stratego for iPad does a fine job recreating the original while adding some welcome digital touches. Granted, the board would be cramped on an iPhone or iPod Touch screen, but I've seen plenty of other games work around that.
Remember Stratego? It's the classic capture-the-flag boardgame.
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