I Need to Find the Stratego Battle Cards Game
It turns out that when Patch Products took on the Stratego board game (as I discovered a few days ago at Target and mentioned here) they also assembled something called Stratego Battle Cards. From the looks of things this is a nicer presentation of the Stratego Card Game (boardgamegeek.com entry), but I can’t really be certain because the new Patch game seems tougher to locate than I was expecting.
Now I’ve been a casual fan of the Stratego family (Amazon.com search*) for years, but when I say “casual” I mean it; I didn’t even know about the Jumbo Stratego Card Game that was released in 2012 until yesterday.
My larger question is just how does the Stratego Battle Cards game compare to the Hera and Zeus* from Rio Grande Games? If you’re unfamiliar with Hera and Zeus it is essentially a Stratego card game that was rethemed; see two BoardGameGeek posts — Geeklist and this forum post for more info.
Wait. Did I just ramble on about a card game that I cannot find at a reasonable price without ordering directly from the publisher? Man, I should just order the game for $10 from Patch Products and get on with my life. I think I need a break so I don’t ramble on again like this again . . .
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