About This Stratego Game Page

What this site is

This is an independent page about the Stratego game: one place where you can open a board and play, and where the rules are written out in plain language for the day you sit down at a real table.

The game at the top of the home page is Stratego® Online, the official browser version at play.stratego.com, shown inside this page. We did not build it and we do not own it — the credit for the game belongs to its publisher. What we write here is the part the official site does not cover in depth: how ranks compare, what happens when a spy meets a marshal, why bombs are not free defence, and what to do in the first ten moves.

Why the rules are written out

Most people who search for this game fall into two groups. One group wants to start a match right away. The other group wants to know what the game is, how the pieces work, and whether it is worth buying — often asked by parents who have been handed the box by a child. A board alone does not answer the second group, and a wall of text does not serve the first. So the home page opens with a playable board and then explains the game underneath it.

Sources

The piece table, the movement rules and the battle rules follow the standard 10×10 game as published in the rule sheet that ships with the box: forty pieces a side, twelve piece types, equal ranks removing each other, a spy that only beats the marshal when attacking, and a miner as the only piece that can defuse a bomb. Nothing on this site is invented to sound good.

What is not here

We do not sell the game, we do not sell ads, and we do not collect accounts. If something on a page is wrong or out of date, send a note through the contact page and it gets corrected.