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Thank you so much for your kind comment, I really appreciate it! I haven’t thought about making a Stratego basics video yet, but it’s a really interesting idea. Maybe I’ll consider it in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

Alright, well next time I'll play something slower

Yes, you are right, both me and my opponent were playing pretty quickly by that point and neither one of us noticed

Great bluff I have to say. I have never played stratego over the board but its nice to hear stories as such.

@Panther-64sq can you link the site you use to play? I'd like to give it a try. Many thanks.

@@fancytoxicsoda strategus.appspot.com/play

@@Panther-64sq my man. Thank you

Too bad, wish everyone would have time for a few games every once a while

I have to disagree. The game was designed to test the limits of my opponent's skill and decision-making under pressure. Offering a draw in a situation where mistakes could still be made would undermine the challenge and the essence of competitive gaming. It’s about seeing who can stay sharp until the very end, not giving free draws when someone hasn’t fully earned it. The ending was not about being unsportsmanlike, but about respecting the rules of the game and rewarding precise play. If the opponent had played perfectly, the draw would have been well deserved.

You were already lucky that he didn't went down with his miner at 13:57

@@Snoom5 You are right, we both were playing bit too quickly by that point and we both missed it. It could have been a disaster

@JohnSteer-e8h Hi, I was asked by my opponent from the second game to postpone uploading it until he finishes a tournament in which he's currently playing. Hopefully I'll upload sometime next week.

@@Panther-64sq . Many thanks for your reply. 👍🏻

@@gilbert3579 You are definitely correct

@@phillipregnier5441 Yes it does, but in few days I will upload video in which the setup worked on one of the best players on the site and I managed to beat player above 600 elo

Looking forward to that video

My mind process when taking that major went like this. It¨s unlikely that the major is protected by marshall, so there is really good chance I would get free major. But if it actually is protected, I will finally be able to attack all the targets you allowed me to know. So it wasn't that big of a risk considering that even If I lost the colonel I would still be in the lead.

You are exactly right about the spy, but I wasn't sure about how much of my setup do I wanna reveal. Thanks for the tip about hiding the result, I might use it at some point.

Thank you for your kind comment, I might make a video for tips to remember all pieces soon

@@Panther-64sq that would be very helpful!

Happy to provide, yes you definetly lottod very well and I am sure you had reasons why youwent for it, I am still trying to fully understand some of your decisions, but you have done very good job when it comes to risks.

​@@Panther-64sqMy decisions were based on little things because I also didn't really know what to expect. For example some bluffs were to try you get to waste scouts, I assumed your flag was like most cases on the marshall side. So that's why I assumed the other side was the weak side. And since you brought a 2nd piece over to defend, I thought the chance of being a tripod in the corner would be small. If you got any questions I willing to answer them!

Good question. I suppose you are talking about the position right after he traded colonel with me. If you'll look at his setup at that moment(21:25), there are four places where he could have closed flag. In that moment there are three pieces that moved of which neither gives me a clue to where his flag is. I have moved with five pieces of which both of my majors are known. So he knows that the two sergeants and captain are liabilities. What he has to do is attack them with majors. What will likely happen is that I will have to trade both of my majors for his and he will likely get atleast one sergean to it. and in that position he will have extra major and three captains against two. He would definetly be able to overpower the other known sergeant, but that would have taken him some time within which I'd have to guess where his flag is(It turned out he had open flag, which I did not expect, so I'd have problem even in that case). I might get lucky to bluff one of my sergeant as a miner to get some whereabout of his flag, but it is either that I will get lucky and find his flag, or he will just over power me. I am not saying you are not right that 6 pieces is a lot of pieces to do something with, I am just saying that it's super risky what I have done and there was a big chance, that if he would have made some proper bluffs, I likely lost. Hope I made it clear, if you want to, I could make a short video in which I would deeply explained it. Also it's very possible, that my view is not objective and I am overestimating power of two unkillable pieces because I had so much success when playing with them against bigger army.

@@Panther-64sq Thats true that you dont know his tripod. I made the assumption that you knew it was the middle one

@@Panther-64sqyou are selling yourself short here with this line of thinking. Given the piece advantage you had at 21:26, he was going to be forced to move pieces to reveal his setup regardless because he needs to find your last 2 miners. If you had no miners left and his flag was bombed in, then it is more likely you would have lost because you have no miners to get to his flag which makes it easier for him to trap your remaining pieces at that point. The trick to winning an end game like this has he not lottoed your bomb with his major would be to send non-miners up as bluffs. He has to respect that any pieces that comes on his side of the board could be a miner so he is naturally going to try to trap whatever the first piece is that moves up. Then from there you have to send other pieces up the lanes to apply more pressure until he is forced to make a decision. I think either way you would have won this game because you had command of the board with having 2 concealed miners in your arsenal.

@@TEDREN-w7k Good point, yet it's still very risky and I am not garanted to win if he reads me corectly. But you're right about implying that he is under lot of pressure

Thank you for your comment, yes I will be joining in that open, never played a tournament before. I will also definetly make recaps of those games

Thank you for your kind comment, we could definetly play a game, my user name on strategus is Panter so feel free to reach out

@@Panther-64sq message sended!

@@CPT_DIRTBAG I havent recieved anything, have you sent it to Panter, or Panther?

@@Panther-64sq Panther65, I only found this or green panther

@@Panther-64sq I sended to Panter now