New Hillsboro store hopes to be a hit with tabletop war gamers OregonLive.com
Date: 30.07.09
Why open a store? Besides getting Carrero's painting operation out of his garage, the location provides space for retail displays and six tables for game playing. Opening the store during a recession is fine timing, Callison said, because more people are looking for entertainment at home.Why Critical Hit? In the game parlance, a player scores a "critical hit" when he destroys or seriously harms an opponent's game piece. The partners also hope their store is a hit among tabletop war gamers.
What, exactly, is a tabletop war game? This is not Yahtzee or Monopoly. Instead, players hew to complex rules as they battle opposing armies of space creature or fantasy character figurines across various landscapes.
"The best way to describe this," Carrero said, "is Stratego on steroids."
Are tabletop war games new? Not really. Before Dungeons & Dragons and several popular movies helped turn the focus to fantasy and science fiction, most such games were based on historical wars. Critical Hit plans to carry a popular World War II game called Flames of War .
In the game of Stratego, if you physically move a piece, does that mean you violated the rule of "moving"?
If you physically move the piece, does this relate to the rules of "moving" in the game? As in, moving from one square to the other?
Only if you let go of the piece.
Do you turn pieces back around in Stratego?
In stratego when a player attacks both players turn their pieces around but once thee winner is declared and the loser removes hi/her piece does the winner turn their piece around to where it isn't visible what the unit is or does it remain visible?
yes, you turn it back around. The other player should remember what the piece is, but they may not.
That's the way I've always played it.
but i think they leave it turned so the opponent can see
in stratego is the bomb removed after a piece hits it?
not the miner but every other piece
or can the bomb only be removed from the board when touched by a miner
No, it isn't removed. I play this game all the time. The directions (which are in my hand) say that the only time a bomb is removed is when the miner attacks it. You don't turn it around either.
Otherwise, you turn it around and the other player tries to remember where it is.
In Stratego, can you move a piece into the lakes or no?
you cannot move peices into the lake.
In Stratego, when you attack a oppents piece do you turn each pieces around and if so, do they stay that way?
Pretty sure about this one. if you attack an opponents piece, you turn both around and the "fight" follows. After one piece loses, you turn the other piece back around, in hopes the player who lost a piece will forget what it was.
Where can I find a list of the characters for Stratego Star Wars edition?
My son got the game and for a change it came with 8 extra pieces. We are trying to figure out which are which and can't find a list. We have already tried Milton Bradley with no luck. Any help you can give is greatly appriciated. Thank you.
try online at toys r us... or just hit up a yahoo search
What is the perfect perfect stratego configuration?
Has a computer figure this out yet. What is the perfect placement of pieces. How many scouts up front. Where to put Miners? I know it depends but what is the best.
I love stratego!! I learned to play as a kid with my dad all the time...but it's a lot harder to find somebody who wants to play it now that i'm all grown up. Here are some great tips for setting up your pieces. (If you follow the link, there are even more tips and suggestions). Enjoy!!
It is usually a good idea to completely surround your Flag with Bombs. If you do so, and if during the game you are able to capture all of your opponent's Miners, you reduce the number of ways your opponent can win the game in half. If your Flag is surrounded by Bombs, without Miners, your opponent simply will not be able to capture your Flag. He must now capture all of your remaining men in order to win.
Below are the two most common methods of surrounding the Flag with Bombs. The first one is in the back row, up against one of the edges of the board. This method uses just two Bombs. The second method is anywhere else in the back row and requires three Bombs.
Keep the identity of your Spy a secret for as long as you can. If your opponent correctly guesses the location of your Spy, or if your Spy becomes a casualty of war, your opponent's Marshal becomes much more powerful.
It's usually a good idea to save your Miners for the late stages of the game, after most of your opponent's Bombs have been identified. For this reason, I usually deploy most of my Miners in my back two ranks.
I usually keep my Marshal on one side of the board, and my General on the other. If I kept both of these two officers together, then one side of the board would be quite weak and undefended. Keeping these two officers apart helps to distribute my resources. My Spy is usually nearby my General, to give him some backup, in case my opponent's Marshal is lurking nearby and desires to give my General some trouble.
Keep you eyes on the arrangement of your opponent's pieces. After a short period of time, usually you can get a pretty good idea where his Flag and Bombs are, simply by noticing which pieces he has not moved. For this reason you may wish to be sure to not move a few of your pieces, in the hopes that your opponent is keeping an eye on which pieces you don't move.
Your Marshal, General, and to a lesser degree your two Colonels are too valuable to lose and therefore should rarely go exploring into enemy territory. These pieces should only attack pieces that a) have already moved and b) you know or strongly suspect are of a lesser rank.
The strength of the Scouts increase near the end of the game, when most of the board is free of pieces and the Scouts can fully utilize their power of rapid movement. For this reason you may wish to initially place a few of your Scouts in your rear rank.
What do I need to do to get my boardgame built and how much would it cost?
There are a good number of pieces similar to risk, stratego, monopoly, and settlers of catan plus the board. How much would it cost and what would could I sell it for in bookstores and other places people still play boardgames?
I collect boardgames, (I only have 3 but it is a start) my best bet is to have it copyrighted so it wont be stolen if you actually show it to potential publishers, and then take it to some sort of publisher that has the equipment and try to work a deal with them to get it published at least some copies. and then you can manually go to local shops and have them put it there for starters.
Can Stratego end in a tie?
I just started playing Stratego and I am wondering if it can end in a tie? (aka draw).
Both my opponent and I were down to 2 movable pieces each, all bombs still on the board, neither player had a minor to get rid of said bombs. Each flag was surrounded with bombs with no minors how could anyone win? It seemed like it would just be those 4 remaining movable pieces chasing each other around the board all night long!? I understand that in addition to getting the opponents flag that if a player can not move any piece than that is a win as well. It seemed like neither was possible in this scenario?
Yes you can declare a draw if you and your opponent agree but your opponent would really know if the flag was surrounded by bombs.
Stratego Strategy?
hello. i am looking for a great Stratego strategy. i am not looking for advice like put the bombs around your flag, i mean like a picture of the beest setup of you pieces. thanks!
One thing I like to do is pretend I'm going to move a piece that is a bomb. Since folks think I was going to move it at one time they don't think it's a bomb. Put 7s behind behind bombs to take out their 8s.
Stratego World Championships
I shall begin with a quick apology to any readers who were expecting a few posts to which I had alluded before the long period of inactivity. It has been mainly due to my laziness over the Christmas break, meaning lack of work on any interesting projects; I currently have a backlog of 3 or 4 intended posts. So, expect some long and numerous ones over the coming weeks and months as I attempt to catch up and put life into this blog!
The Computer Stratego World Championships is something of which I’ve been aware for a while now (since before its second event in 2008 in fact), but this year I’ve made my mind up to actually compete. Contrary to what its name suggests, it is a rather small competition (though indeed international and the only one of it sort), with only 5 individuals taking part last year. (Now I slightly regret not entering then while I at least had a statistically better chance, despite the lack of time and even experience.) This year there may be as many as twice as that number, and it appears as if there is even some academic interest from various places as well. Also, it seems that I will be submitting the first bot (computer player) written in .NET, thanks to a web service interface provided by Sven, one of the current and last year’s participants. (The standard interfaces provided with the SDK are only for Java and C++, requiring some form of IPC to get the client working with other languages.) Given that I have almost a full year to write, test, and improve upon my submission, I very much hope to submit a competitive bot by the time of the competition in December.
One of the great things about this tournament is the opportunity to test the bot you have coded at any time within a sizable online Stratego community at Metaforge (the host of the actual event), whose admin was nice enough to provide all participants with free testing accounts. If I’m lucky I may be able to get some useful feedback from some of the experts. The main method of testing and learning (perhaps automated learning if I’m feeling adventerous) will be offline, running marginally different versions of the bot against each other.
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