Unlike Chess, the success of the 'attack' is determined by the ranks of the pieces, not the validity of that attack. Each piece, as in chess, follows its own movement rules. Each player is assigned an 'army' of 40 pieces at the start of the game, including a marshal, captains, sergeants, scouts, bombs, and a flag.
Hasbro released the second computer version of the board game in late 1999, but it is unrelated to this version of Accolade.įor those unfamiliar with the board game, here is the basic premise: Stratego is perhaps the best description of the 'realistic, modern military' version of chess.
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This PC conversion of the Macintosh game was made by MindSpan, and was the only non-sports game they developed. But if you can't wait, well, I'll see you on the battlefield.Solid computer version of Milton Bradley's classic board game Stratego. "Who puts a bomb there?!!") I'd consider waiting for the price to drop a few bucks and the bugs to get cleaned up. (If you remember it being aggravating, well, it's just as aggravating as you remember. The good news is that when you're playing against another person, Stratego is just as much fun as you remember. I won't say beating the AI is impossible, but at the very least the game should offer a choice of skill levels. 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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