A summary of the rules are written below. For a comprehensive Stratego guide, see the Stratego wiki
Stratego is a strategy much like chess with a few caveats:
- You and your opponent cannot see each other’s pieces before attacking them
- Pieces can only be taken by pieces with a rank higher than its own
- Pieces can only move one tile vertically or horizontally (not diagonally)
- Each player attempts to capture the opponent’s immoveable flag piece
As with any game, there are of course, exceptions to the above rules:
- A scout piece (rank 2) can move as a rook does in chess
- A bomb piece (rank 0) defeats every other piece, but is immovable
- A miner piece (rank 3) can diffuse enemy bombs
- A spy piece (rank 1) can defeat a marshal piece (rank 10) if the spy attacks the marshall
- Rank 0 - Bomb (B)
- Rank 1 - Spy (S)
- Rank 2 - Scout (2)
- Rank 3 - Miner (3)
- Rank 4 - Sergeant (4)
- Rank 5 - Lieutenant (5)
- Rank 6 - Captain (6)
- Rank 7 - Major (7)
- Rank 8 - Colonel (8)
- Rank 9 - General (9)
- Rank 10 - Marshal (10)
- Rank 11 - Flag (F)
Our team created a simple, easy to use, Terminal-based version of Stratego in OCaml 4.03.00 where a user can play against an medium-difficulty AI. Movement is based on a grid similar to a chess board, but we decided to use an (x, y) coordinate system rather than the alphanumeric labeled grid.
- Download the stratego folder to your local machine.
- Make sure you have OCaml 4.03.00 installed to your machine.
- Open up Terminal or Command Line.
- Navigate to the stratego folder within Terminal/Command Line
- Enter 'make' into the console
- Enter 'make play' into the console
- Chris Sciavolino (board.ml, game.ml)
- Dan Laine (ai.ml)
- Katie Gioioso (ai.ml)
- Ryan Feldman (display.ml, main.ml)
