
(One of the reasons - there are many - that Stratego Legends failed as a game is that all the special powers made playing through the more-or-less-determined opening and midgame a complete slog.) How much of an advantage do you now have? At the start of the game, he reveals one of his 6's. As a thought experiment: imagine setting up to play against a good opponent.

There is very little room for tactics and decision-making in the early game, because most of your pieces are trapped and much of the information you gain in the early game isn't very useful.

With 40 pieces per side, most of the opening and midgame is, basically, randomly pushing the two setups against each other to determine the configuration of the endgame, which is where pretty much all of the interesting play is. The main problem with Stratego is that there's too much of it.
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