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From: Pit <schaefer@malaga.math.uni-augsburg.de>
Subject: Re: Thought question: Stratego
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 13:55:36 GMT
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Kenji Ulstein <kenhar@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Will Dwinnell wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if people had any ideas on good opening Stratego
> > setups?  I suppose the flag is usually placed in one of the corners or
> > Will Dwinnell
> > Commercial Intelligence Inc.
> > 
> I have found a good aid to mobility is puting lots of scouts in the front 
> line, that way it lets me know who I'm going up against And gives me room 
> to move 1 & 2 behind the lake. (After the # 9's are crushed)
> ____----------____
> Kenji Ulstein          Kenhar@U.Washington.edu
>  
My favorite is building 3 places for my flag( the two corners
and one in the middle) and then choose the location randomly(1:4:1).
I also like blocking one side a bit. the spy should be with the ****.
pieces that are close to each other should have a two-point difference.
2 mineurs should stay in reserve in the backrow.
My bomb backbone would look like this:

.--..--.. 
.........
.......x. 
x..x.....x
.x.x.....          

