Pocket Gamer writes: "Very few boardgames spawn their own World Cup, Olympiad, Ryder Cup or, indeed, a Robot Championship. Even fewer games have British world number ones – step forward Richard Ratcliffe. Stratego has all of these and is now on the DS. So what's not to love?
Er, we'll come to that in a minute. Let's accentuate the positive part first.
Stratego, for those of you not in the know, is a kind of variant of dark chess. Two players move their red (or blue) pieces around a 10x10 board, the aim being to find and capture their opponent's flag. Like chess, each of a player's 40 pieces have various ranks so that, for example, a Marshall beats a Major and a Lieutenant beats a Scout. Unlike chess there are two kinds of pieces – bombs and the flag – which do not move. And also unlike chess there are two 4x4 squares in the middle of the board that no piece can enter."
