Qixel wrote:

It always seemed that whoever made a fortress out of Australia would win.

Now see, every darn time I've ever played Risk, the game always ends with the decided winner and the clear loser agreeing that the latter can keep Australia rather than bother to waste yet another hour achieving comprehensive genocide.

Australia is where the second-best go to die.

In Risk, I mean.  :-)

DeepGreene wrote:

The Generals.  It was like Stratego, except that you never showed your opponent your piece, even on the attack.  In a fight, you each took the relevant piece and put it into a slot (still facing away from your opponent) and an electronic judge would call who won.

Electronic Stratego worked much the same way.  It had an electronic judge anyway.  It also had bombs that you could secretly place under some of your pieces.  And you could find out the relative strength of any opposing piece on the board in exchange for giving up your turn.

I bought that same version about a month or two ago and it's a good time.  It reminds me of a game I used to LOVE when I was younger:  The Generals.  It was like Stratego, except that you never showed your opponent your piece, even on the attack.  In a fight, you each took the relevant piece and put it into a slot (still facing away from your opponent) and an electronic judge would call who won.  It added a fun dimension because it sometimes took a little longer to figure out exactly what your opponent was using against you.

Anyway, this is the only Stratego I've ever played, so I don't have much else for a frame of reference.  It's good fun anyway, and yeah, relatively quick.

zankfrappa wrote:

Battleship was great too and so was Risk.  The only thing I didn't like about RIsk was the roll of the dice introduced luck into the equation.

My older brother used to force me to play Risk by making ugly threats against my Barbie collection.

It always seemed that whoever made a fortress out of Australia would win.  Then I invented a counterstrategy that I called "Going nomad".  I would pick an out-of-the-way country in Asia, like Irkutsk, build up a giant army there, and bide my time until I could make a massive attack by sweeping out of the steppes.

     I loved Stratego.  Battleship was great too and so was Risk.  The only thing I didn't like about RIsk was the roll of the dice introduced luck into the equation.
      We also used to play a lot of Uno and another great card game called
Mille Bornes.
       Clue was great as well, and another fun game was Masterpiece, in which you had to guess the value of famous paintings.
        We always seemed to lean toward Parker Brothers, although Milton Bradley
had great games too.  I can't remember many Hasbro games.
        We were an Air Force family and moved quite a bit so we didn't always
know people when we first moved somewhere, so we played a lot of board games.

I have always loved playing Stratego when I was younger!  I never kept up with all of the other variants of it though.  This new version sounds very good.

Not to change the subject, but I used to play a game called "All the King's Men" has any one played it before or even heard of it?

http://www.abstractstrategy.com/all-the-kings-men.html

I like Stratego too.  For a time I even played it online, in fact, though I can't remember the URL anymore.