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The ranks are printed on one side only and placed so that the players cannot identify the opponent's pieces. Before the start of the game, players arrange their 40 pieces in a 4×10 configuration at either end of the board. Typically, color is chosen by lot: one player uses red pieces, and the other uses blue pieces. A few versions have wooden boxes or boards. Some versions have a cardboard privacy screen to assist setup. More modern versions first introduced in Europe have cylindrical castle-shaped pieces. The pieces are small and roughly rectangular, 1 in (25 mm) tall and 3⁄ 4 in (19 mm) wide, and unweighted. The early sets featured painted wood pieces, later sets colored plastic. The game box contents are a set of 40 gold-embossed red playing pieces, a set of silver-embossed blue playing pieces, and a folding 15 + 1⁄ 2 in × 18 + 1⁄ 2 in (39 cm × 47 cm) rectangular cardboard playing board imprinted with a 10×10 grid of spaces. This description is of the original and classic games many variant shapes and colors of pieces and boards have been produced in the decades since. It has been licensed to manufacturers such as Milton Bradley, Hasbro and others, as well as retailers such as Barnes & Noble, Target stores, etc. 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. 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.

There have been 47,479 plays and 2 likes from 2 votes since. This game is MS-DOS emulated, hence you can not use the mouse to play. The goal of the game is to strike the enemy’s flag while defending your own. Each piece has their own movement rules and the units can only destroy or attack those with lower ranks than them. In this game, the player is allotted 40 pieces in the beginning of the game, and it’s up to the player where to place them. Similar to chess in many ways and can be compared to the Japanese Shogi, but only set in the modern age with guns and bombs. The game is based on Milton Bradley’s classic board game of the same name and features all tradition gameplay and mechanics. Stratego is a classic strategy board/war game released back in 1990 for the MS-DOS platform. Play the classic war simulation game right in your browser in this solid computer version of the Milton Bradley’s board game – Stratego! Deploy your units at the right spot and carefully choose your moves to secure the victory.