Stratego Strategy?

Question

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!

Answer 1

A general strategy for this game is to be deceptive. Some of the answers previous to mine give good specific strategies for deceiving your opponent into thinking you are doing one thing, while you are actually doing another. But never use the same strategy twice, or at least never in two games played close together, or your opponent will catch on and use this insight to his or her advantage. The important thing is to keep your opponent off guard, so he or she has no idea what you are doing. Keep your opponent guessing, and create new deceptive strategies for each time you play.

Keep in mind that your opponent will probably try to be deceptive also. This is where body language comes in. Is your opponent constantly looking at one part of the board in his or her area? Does he or she have a smile or smirk or look of intense concentration or worried expression on his or her face as he or she does so? Those clues might mean something.

Is your opponent paying just a little too much attention to the part of your side that holds the flag? You might want to take steps to protect that area. Or maybe you want to leave that area wide open as though there is nothing of value there while concentrating on putting up defenses in another part of your area as though the flag were there instead. If your opponent is attacking an area where your flag is not, see if you can concentrate your defenses there so he or she thinks you have something to hide there. Protecting a bomb or high-level piece instead of your flag is my favorite strategy, but remember not to do that all the time, or your opponent will catch on. Be creative!

One thing I never do (well, almost never) is put my flag in a corner. This is an incredibly obvious strategy, and one that will generally attract a lot of attention, especially if you do it all the time. But perhaps you want to pretend your flag is in a corner and keep ample protection there to throw your opponent off? There are too many fun strategies you could use to list all of them here. But the point is that you never give your opponent the advantage of knowing what you are doing. This simple advice is the key to winning the game. Have fun! - LJS

Answer 2

This is tricky to pull off but. As soon as they play their marshell at you.

Start agessivly moving any  peice towards his Marshell (they will think it is the spy). Thus sending the marshell into retreat.

With luck for the rest of the game. Or untill you can sneak your real spy in and past his defence's (try to make him think you have forgoton where his marshell was).

Always keep you flag surounded with bombs and a Major.

Answer 3

Put bombs around a bomb. People will think that the flag is there, thus sending their best people over and getting the sh*t blown out of them. Also, put all your crappy people at the back, mix in only one or two good ones....Keep the spy in the back, also a major....Use them and a bomb or two to surround the flag.

Answer 4

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.