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[czafa]

How come you can't go diagonally? I always played stratego like that! It really confuses me.

[Warfen]

The official rules of Stratego say that you cannot move diagonally.

Though i am curious how Stratego would play if you were allowed to play diagonally.
How do you play then? Do you allow all pieces to move diagonally, or only certain ranks?

I might give it a try some time to see what its like

[Tokimitsu]

If you could move diagonally that would make your bomb placement a little too obvious because if you can just get diagonal from the flag with a scout its an easy game over. I mean if there was an option to play like that in an unranked match it would be pretty cool tho. I sent some feedback on the features page about certain game rules that can be toggled, which would be awesome, and some different game modes. I hope they see it and decide to implement that. I think it would make the game have more play and appeal to more people.

[Zapt0r]

hmm, pretty sure that isnt allowed. you should read the rules !

still, might be kinda cool to play like this once... will try it out

[BLeonard]

The OP might have learned how to play Stratego using the "Ice vs Fire" version. In that version, the pieces with a 5 Rank (Red is a Lava Beast, Blue is a Yeti) were allowed to move digonally.

Personally, I have played a lot on the Probe computer program and the game options allow for Captains (5's) to move diagonally, for Lieutenants (6's) to jump over adjacent pieces, and Sergeants (7's) to cross barriers. You can chek or uncheck these prior to playing to play by the rules you want and to disallow the rules you don't want. Personally, I like the traditional rules, because that's how I have always played... But, others might have learned a different way.

It seems as if a lot of the variations of Stratego over the years have variations in the rules, as well. People likely aslo have their own "House Rules" that they have played by, kinda like how some people put money in the middle of the board for the "Free Parking" spot in Monopoly.

-Bill

[czafa]

Ok, the game that I was used to playing was actually a some sort of clone of Stratego with a few changes. It had a very slightly different map (here's a picture: http://postimage.org/image/vx9yn56fp/)
There were one less character and a bit different order of ranks (see the picture)
Another thing was that when the opponent captures your piece with his stronger piece, he doesn't show you his capturing piece. I think this adds to the strategy, as you can defeat many pieces without revealing your piece's exact rank, unless the opponent decides to attacks you.
And the main difference is that all pieces could move diagonally, though could only attack a square next to them. This makes it much easier for example to move between your mines which could be effectively placed in some zigzag pattern. The scout can only move multiple squares forward or backward.

[Midnightguy]

In the Fire and Ice game, the Elf (4) could also make an attack diagonal and shoot across the no man zone. However I never really played with all the "bells and whistles" but I think I do recall only the Lava Beast/Yeti (5) could attack on the diagonal but that was part of a full out attack on all 8 points of attack. If somehow it was surrounded by eight pieces 4 or lower, it could clear them all in one attack. However, if one pieces is 5 or higher it was removed from the game. As far as I remembered, it still have to follow the straight one space movement.

[trickz]

How come you can't go diagonally? I always played stratego like that! It really confuses me.

Lol,....maybe the ISF will implement this rule as well one day.
I wouldn't be surprised