Best Winning Percentage Stratego Game Board Setup on Gravon

One of the best ways to learn how to get better at playing any game, including Stratego, is to watch how great players play.   I found all the won/loss/tie records of the archived game board setups at the Gravon Stratego website.  I’ll be listing the files of many of the top players(won/loss percentage record) so you can view and analyze how the top Stratego players performed.  Studying how the top players play can dramatically increase how well you play.

Here’s is what the top winning game board setup looked like:

Setup As Player 2

As Player 1

You can see the player had an unusual placement for his flag(2nd row).  The player also bombed in his flag.  The player also has a very strong right side with his colonel, marshal, spy and general placed there.  The player of this setup(I'm assuming only 1 person) had a won/loss/tie record of: 

Wins = 87 Losses = 9 Ties = 1 Games Played = 97 Winning Percentage = 90.62%

That's a really good winning percentage.  The person stopped playing, at least with this setup, in 2006.  I watched only a few of the games so far and was really impressed at the playing style.  The player rarely made mistakes, was great at trapping pieces and had very few wasted moves.  It seemed like every move had a purpose. Here's a listing of all that player's games.

Player1 Lost  classic-2006.0-1129.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-1169.xml
Player1 Lost  classic-2006.0-131.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-1565.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-1621.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-164.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-1653.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-1688.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-1770.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-1825.xml
Player2 Lost  classic-2006.0-1962.xml
Player1 Lost  classic-2006.0-212.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-2446.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-2464.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-2501.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-2675.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-2869.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-317.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-3212.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-3451.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-3549.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-3590.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-3622.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-3880.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-4155.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-4260.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-4311.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-4385.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-4642.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-4928.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-4936.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-509.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-5128.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-5333.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-5562.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-5757.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6098.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6332.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6392.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6501.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6559.xml
Player2 Lost  classic-2006.0-6616.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-6692.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.0-6735.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.0-6770.xml
Player2 Lost  classic-2006.0-918.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-1393.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-2352.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-2582.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-2903.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-330.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-3778.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-3965.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-455.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-5664.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-5998.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-6862.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-7297.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-7727.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-8015.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-814.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-8174.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-8202.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-8219.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.1-8372.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-1770.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-28.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.2-3264.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-3365.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-4587.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-4633.xml
Player2 Lost  classic-2006.2-4674.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.2-5665.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-5944.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.2-6026.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-679.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-8300.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-8363.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.2-8420.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-8716.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-8779.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.2-972.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.5-1869.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-2177.xml
Player2 Lost  classic-2006.5-2548.xml
Player1 Lost  classic-2006.5-3381.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-3636.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-4165.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-4948.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-5134.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-5390.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-5488.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-6440.xml
Player1 Won  classic-2006.5-77.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.5-976.xml
Player2 Tie   classic-2006.7-2497.xml
Player2 Won  classic-2006.7-5756.xml

To view the games, you need to go to gravon.de and download their Stratego game viewer(StraDos2) and the game files. Here's the link:

http://www.gravon.de/gravon/stratego/strados2.jsp

If you find a very interesting game played by this person, please list the filename in the comment section below.

A Stratego Player at Stratego.com with the name OuweSok found this fantastic game to view:
classic-2006.5-77.xml
You can visit OuweSok's youtube channel here.


Update:  Here's another similar game setup by the same player. He had a 45-6-1 record with this setup. He played these games in 2005 before he started using the other setup.  This setup has 2 captains in the back row instead of 2 lieutenants.

Setup as Player 2

Setup as Player 1

Here's a listing of the game files for the setup above:

Wins = 45 Losses = 6 Ties = 1 Games Played = 52 
Winning Percentage = 88.24%

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-1089.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1093.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1198.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-1295.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-131.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1407.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1428.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1575.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1604.xml

Player2 Lost  classic-2005.10-169.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-1714.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-1896.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-2210.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-2704.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-284.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-3339.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-3539.xml

Player1 Lost  classic-2005.10-3812.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-3878.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-410.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-4152.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-4162.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-4429.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-4543.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-4721.xml

Player1 Lost  classic-2005.10-4736.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-4902.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-5002.xml

Player1 Lost   classic-2005.10-5496.xml

Player1 Lost   classic-2005.10-6017.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-6121.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-6405.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-6447.xml

Player2 Tie    classic-2005.10-660.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-6678.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-6691.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-7406.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.10-8216.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-856.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.10-902.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.11-129.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.11-1519.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.11-1567.xml

Player1 Lost   classic-2005.11-2377.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.11-3229.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.11-353.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.11-3794.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.11-5954.xml

Player2 Won  classic-2005.11-6082.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2005.11-6689.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2006.1-4409.xml

Player1 Won  classic-2006.5-702.xml

To view the games, you need to go to gravon.de and download their Stratego game viewer(StraDos2) and the game files. Here's the link:

http://www.gravon.de/gravon/stratego/strados2.jsp