Editing Stratego (section)

===Modern Stratego variations===

====Electronic Stratego====
''Electronic Stratego'' was introduced by Milton Bradley in 1982. To promote the release, the company hired two actors to play [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]], who played a match at the [[New York Public Library Main Branch]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_12_1983-02_Reese_Communications_US/page/n9/mode/2up |title=Stratego Summit Held |date=February 1983 |magazine=Electronic Games |access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref>

It has features that make many aspects of the game strikingly different from those of classic ''Stratego''. The board is 8 wide by 10 squares deep, instead of 10×10. The blocked "lake" areas are therefore 1×2 instead of 2×2. Each side has 24 pieces, instead of 40, deployed in the three rows closest to the player; instead of six bomb pieces, ''Electronic Stratego'' uses hidden bomb pegs.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>

Each type of playing piece in ''Electronic Stratego'' has a unique series of bumps on its bottom that are read by the game's battery-operated touch-sensitive "board".<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>{{rp|7}} When attacking another piece, the attacking player hits their ''Strike'' button, presses their piece and then the targeted piece: the game either rewards a successful attack or punishes a failed strike with an appropriate bit of music.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>{{rp|22–25}} In this way the players never know for certain the rank of the piece that wins the attack, only whether the attack wins, fails, or ties (similar to the role of the referee in the Chinese game of ''[[Luzhanqi]]'').<ref name=Worley-review/> Instead of choosing to move a piece, a player can opt to "probe" an opposing piece by hitting the ''Probe'' button and pressing down on the enemy piece: the game then beeps out a rough approximation of the strength of that piece.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>{{rp|26–27}}

There are no ''Bomb'' pieces: ''Bombs'' are set using pegs placed on a touch-sensitive "peg board" that is closed from view prior to the start of the game.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>{{rp|16–19}} Hence, it is possible for a player to have their piece occupying a square with a bomb on it.<ref name=Worley-review/> If an opposing piece lands on the seemingly empty square, the game plays the sound of an explosion and that piece is removed from play. As in classic ''Stratego'', only a ''Miner'' can remove a ''Bomb'' from play.

The ''Scout'' is allowed to move diagonally, in addition to its usual horizontal and vertical moves. Again, as with the non-electronic ''Stratego'', scouts are not allowed to jump over pieces.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982/>{{rp|28–33}}

A player who successfully captures the opposing ''Flag'' is rewarded with a triumphant bit of music from the ''[[1812 Overture]]''.<ref name=E-Stratego-1982>{{cite web |url=http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Stratego,_Electronic.PDF |title=Electronic Stratego |date=1982 |publisher=Milton Bradley}}</ref>{{rp|36}}<ref name=Worley-review>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_08_1982-10_Reese_Communications_US/page/n97/mode/2up |title=Lead the Electronic Army to Victory! |author=Worley, Joyce |date=October 1982 |magazine=Electronic Games |access-date=7 August 2023}}</ref>

====New pieces and versions====
In the late 1990s, the Jumbo Company released several European variants, including a three- and four-player version, and a new ''Cannon'' piece (which jumps two squares to capture any piece, but loses to any attack against it). It also included some alternate rules such as ''Barrage'' (a quicker two-player game with fewer pieces) and ''Reserves'' (reinforcements in the three- and four-player games). The four-player version appeared in America in 1997.

Starting in the 2000s, Hasbro, under its Milton Bradley label, released a series of popular media-themed Stratego editions.

Besides themed variants with substantially different rules, current production includes three slightly different editions: sets with classic (1961) piece numbering (highest rank=1), sets with European piece numbering (highest rank=10), and sets that allow substitution of one or two variant pieces such as ''Cannons'', usually in place of scouts.  Sets produced since 1970 or so have uniformly adopted the rule that scouts can move and strike in the same turn.