Stratego Quick Game

Stratego Quick Game is a type of Stratego available on stratego.com/play where you only get 10 pieces (Flag, Spy, Marshal, General, 2 Bombs, 2 Miners, and 2 Scouts) to place on a smaller (8\*8) board.

O represents your opponent's side of the board, L stands for lake, and Y is where you can design your setup. There are a total of 889 billion, 625 million, 721 thousand, 600 possible ways of setting up your pieces in a quick game of Stratego.

## Basic Strategies

*See also List of Quick Game Setups and Strategies.*

### Flag placement strategies

There are 2 types of strategies regarding flag placement in a quick game. One can either place their flag behind bombs and attempt to capture both of the opponent's miners, or one can place the flag somewhere unexpected, and hope to find the opponent's flag first.

### Spy strategies

The 2 most common spy placement strategies in quick games are placing the spy directly behind a lake, and placing the spy directly behind or next to the general, but since these are so common, it is actually usually better to put the spy somewhere unexpected.

In quick games, since there are only 7 moveable pieces, if you think that a piece is your opponent's marshal, go ahead and attack it, because even if you attack a random moveable piece, you have a 1 in 7 chance of attacking your opponent's marshal, and another 1 in 7 chance of attacking their spy.

### Marshal strategies

Since many people would expect it and attack with their spy, it is not the wisest idea to send in your marshal first, unless you have a good idea where your opponent's spy is, or if you send it in at the same time as another piece as to confuse your opponent as to which piece to attack.

Defensive strategies with your marshal can also work, if you leave your marshal somewhere generally close to your flag, and wait for your opponent to send pieces closer.

### General strategies

In general, people use their general for defense, and this is generally a good idea, at least until you know where your opponent's marshal is (or at least have a generally good guess of the general area where your opponent's marshal is).

When being used for defense, it is generally paired with the spy as to ensure that if defeated by the opponent's marshal, that marshal can then be defeated by the spy.

### Bomb placement strategies

There are 3 types of strategies regarding bomb placement in a quick game. One can use both bombs to protect their flag and attempt to capture both of the opponent's miners, one can place bombs in unexpected places as to try to make their opponent blow up a high ranking piece, or one can do a little of both.

### Miner strategies

In quick games, it is best to save your miners (or at least 1 of them), as people often use both bombs to protect their flag. If your opponent's flag could be in the corner defended by both bombs, you should probably save your miners until you get a chance to attack the corner, but if your opponent's flag could not be in the corner defended by both bombs, using 1 miner to make a good guess as to where a bomb might be may not be a bad idea.

### Scout strategies

In quick games, scouts are good for 3 of the 4 things that they are good for in classic Stratego, not including actual scouting. However, they are particularly good for bluffing (as there are no less valuable pieces to attack them with to call the bluff), and for flag scouting or spy scouting (as the opponent's flag and spy are more easily exposed).