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Civil War Stratego
Studio : USAopoly
by USAopoly
Brand : USAopoly
Model : ST053-000
Release Date : 2007-09-25
Publisher : USAopoly
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0000304003431
UPC : 000304003431
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 3 reviews)
List Price : $29.95
Our Price : $16.04
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Wood playing pieces! This is the first time the game will feature wood pieces in approximately four decades.
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Wood pieces will represent all levels of both the Union and Confederate Armies
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Colorful game board will depict a classic Civil War battlefield (i.e., Antietam).
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A collectible for the avid Civil War enthusiast.
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Recommended Age Range 8 and up
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The North takes on the South again! - in this special edition of STRATEGO ! Pick a side and fight for your country?s honor! Meet on the ultimate Civil War battlefield to capture your opponent?s flag before he can find yours! But beware, the next piece you attack might be a Siege Mortar that will blast your soldier off the board! Do you want to keep the Yankees out of the South and protect your sovereign rights as States then Confederate General Robert E. Lee is your man! Or will you join the fight with the Yankees and General Ulysses S. Grant to squash the Confederate rebels? The decision is yours! Game features historically accurate Union and Confederate soldiers on 80 authentic wood playing pieces. Ages 8+ 2 players |
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Civil War Stratego brings history to life |
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I admit that I'm a diehard Civil War fan and collector. Adding Civil War Stratego to my collecion was a no-brainer. My wife saw the box and said "Let's open it up and play!" The look of shock on my face gave away the simple fact that this was purchased as a collector's item. Her response was, "Oh God, yet another piece for the collection!" Life is good. |
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Could have been much better |
They really missed the mark with the Civil War edition of Stratego. That's a pity because it looked like it had great potential, but it almost seems like they stopped putting much effort into it half-way through the design process.
First of all the box shows an older, gray and bloated version of Ulysses S. Grant on the cover from a photograph taken when he was president. He was a trim young man in his forties with dark hair during the Civil War. Maybe that's a quibble, but it hints at the lackluster research that went into the game itself.
As with the previous reviewer, I think the wooden playing pieces were a huge mistake. Unlike the plastic pieces of other Stratego games, these pieces have a tendency to fall over when even slightly bumped. I can understand their wanting to make them wooden to look more "rustic," but it has seriously hampered the playabilty of the game.
I will give them credit for making the soldier images on the peices look different for both sides and making them of various different types of soldiers such as infantry, sharpshooters, zouaves, etc. And making the bomb in the orignal game into a siege mortar was a stroke of genius. That's an historical touch that was really nice. The images on all the pieces are so-so. Some of them were obviously made to resemble real people like Lee, Jackson, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, etc... even the spys look like they were based on a couple of the real women spies of the period. Again, a nice touch... but, unfortunately the nice little touches seem to stop there.
The biggest dissapointment is the gameboard. It looks like what it is; an lackluster computer-generated overhead view of a weedy field with a stone bridge crossing a stream (a lame rendition of Burnside's Bridge at Antietam). The dark green battlefield of grass, trees and lakes that made the original Stratego gameboard look so lush and attractive is missing. Plus they added a cannon graphic on one side of the bridge... a cannon that the Union player will always have to view upside down.
Although I love Civil War history, when it comes to Stratego I think I'll stick to the classic version. |
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Poorly designed pieces |
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The civil war version has one problem, if you give the board a slight bump, the pieces all fall over. The version I had as a kid had much more stable pieces, they were hard to tip over. Playing with this version is frustrating. |
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