I was given Stratego as a gift when I was eight or nine, and took to it like a duck to water. I guess ‘higher number means higher rank’ makes logical sense, but I do not like it! And the miners were always 8, now they’re 2s or 3s I think. I cannot get used to the highest rank being 10 now, not 1. I’d like to pick up a classic version like the OP for just this reason. But the newer games reversed the numbering, which I could never get used to. When my two boys were old enough I bought a new Stratego game and introduced the game to them. Sometimes two groups in a flanking formation. Offensively, after clearing many of my opponent’s higher ranking pieces and using scouts to determine bomb locations, I’d move in little groups a high-ranking piece, a low-ranking sacrificial piece and a miner. So you had a 50/50 chance of knowing where my flag was- if you chose wrong you lost a lot of moves, pieces and effort for nothing even if you chose the correct corner you had to work for it. I did the same setup without the flag in the other corner for a decoy. I always went with the flag in one corner surrounded by bombs and by a couple pieces which were one rank higher than miners, so your miner would be sacrificed right after clearing the bomb. I always used pretty much the same initial setup, just fine-tuning it over time. None of my classmates could ever beat me (except one who just went Kamikaze on me and got lucky one time). I was the Stratego equivalent of a Grand Master in 5th or 6th grade.
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