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When you’re ready for more serious competition, you’ll find it in Ranked play. These matches can be scaled-down affairs with only 10 pieces per side or the standard 40-on-40 maps, and both are helpful for learning the ropes. Once you sign up by either using your Facebook credentials or registering your email address, the Quick Arena mode can get you right into the action against a random opponent. The rules are available at, but it almost seems as if the game assumes you already know how to play it.Ī single player mode can help you feel your way around against an AI opponent, but the real meat and potatoes here is competing head-to-head against other people. In one of the few drawbacks of this new online version, there’s no tutorial explaining all of this. Adding to the fun are bombs (which stay stationary but blow up attacking soldiers), Miners (low-ranking troops that can defuse bombs) and Spies (who can assassinate Marshalls but lose to everything else). The identity of each piece is only revealed when it tries to capture another piece, making bluffs and a good memory helpful tools to have in your arsenal.

The object is to capture the other side’s flag, though part of the challenge is actually figuring out where it is.

Each player has 40 pieces that represent soldiers, with ranks from Scout to Marshall. While it’s been around for ages, it’s never been given a treatment like Jumbo and Keesing Games just put together, playable on iPad or any web browser and with plenty of great new features.Įxplaining the complete rules of Stratego issomething I don’t want to get into here, but it’s a little like chess except you don’t know which pieces are which on the other side.

It’s a classic board game of capture the flag that’s simple enough to learn quickly, but full of subtle strategies. If you’ve never played Stratego before, well friend, you’re a little late to the party.