Stratego (Amiga NTSC) - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
31Stratego is a strategy game, developed and published by Accolade in 1990. This is the type of game which takes full advantage of the Amiga's mouse, but is this a great board game or just a bored game? Lets find out.
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Production Notes:
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Captured: 5th February 2022 (x2 tries)
Narrated: 8th July 2022
Not sure if I played this game more than once before making this review, as if you know the game, it is the same in all versions. This comes with a few rule tweaks in the options, but nothing special. I played it twice, and recorded the outcomes. With good strategy, it's possible to save a few miners for the end game, and probe the enemies rear line for weaknesses. When I first played the game, I was unimpressed, but as I enjoyed played Stratego in real life, I figured this would go perfectly with the Medieval Banquet games, along with Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and Kings Bounty. So I recorded them all around the same time.
Narration wasn't too much of an issue, except I was still waiting for my new teeth at that point, and I wanted to record all of these Medieval games before (or during) the time when I had to get some if them pulled out. So you'll hear me having some trouble speaking 'S's. After narrating this, there was a big gap to narrating the other games in this series, when I decided to instead have those Medieval games as part of the main lineup this year.
Danscore:
I had The Art of Chess back in the day, but there were lots of others: Chess Simulator, Chessmaster 2000, and the radical Distant Armies game. Even Chess Player 2150 had something interesting going on. All of those games have much better semi-3D graphics than this one, and were published sooner. This isn't just a lame ST port, but it also doesn't come with any interesting music or even sound effects. With a game like this, there really needed to be individual sounds or figures on a board, with different weapons to show some action going on. With the real board game, there were tiles with images from the Movies on them, and I'm sure the Amiga could draw a cannon or an archer just as well as The Lord of the Rings version, which had Trolls and Elves. In fact, given Battle Chess had already been released 2 years before, with animated characters, it might seem rather obtuse to release a game like this and expect Β£25.99 for it in 1990. The game itself handles simply enough, but the backgrounds could be better. They ported the board game faithfully and without any bells or whistles. I can only give this a 5.5. Its not unplayable, but it's not too 'good' either, and is rather dull. Compare this to something like the arcade game Rampart, or even Archon, and the reason for playing this board game on an Amiga seems to dwindle. On harder modes the game is also rock hard unless you are a master, and if this was aimed at masters, surely there should be some kind of in-game masters challenge instead of the cold Tournament mode. Sadly it was not to be.