![]() Sub-licensed in 1961 Milton Bradley the game became available for American distribution. In 1942 Jacques Johan Mogendorff with its Napoleonic imagery was licensed in the Netherlands. The game, called L'attaque was invented in France by Hermance Eden around 1910 and made its way to Great Britain a little before World War One. Early pieces were cardboard in metal clips, then painted wood and then silver embossed plastic and, these days, stickers on plastic. New variant versions of the game have different types of pieces, like archers and cannons. ![]() In the two player game each side gets 20 pieces: 8 scouts, 6 Bombs, 5 miners, 3 majors, 2 colonels, one each marshal, general, spy, flag, and 4 each sergeants, lieutenants, captains. The name Stratego is from the ancient Greek meaning leader of an army. Stratego is a simple game of capture the flag inside a 10” by 10” board, blue versus red, with ten different troops, one flag each, and several bombs to protect a chosen strategy.
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