
The attacking player notes the hit or miss on their own "tracking" grid, in order to build up a picture of the opponent's fleet. The opponent announces whether or not the square is occupied by a ship, and if it is a "hit" they mark this on their own primary grid. In each round, each player takes a turn to announce a target square in the opponent's grid which is to be shot at.
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There are two typical complements of ships, as given in the Milton Bradley version of the rules:Īfter the ships have been positioned, the game proceeds in a series of rounds. The types and numbers of ships allowed are the same for each player. The ships cannot overlap (i.e., only one ship can occupy any given square in the grid). The number of squares for each ship is determined by the type of the ship.

Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. On the other grid the player records his/her own shots.īefore play begins, each player secretly arranges their ships on their primary grid. On one grid the player arranges ships and records the shots by the opponent. The grids are typically square – usually 10×10 – and the individual squares in the grid are identified by letter and number. The game is played on four grids, two for each player.
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The 2012 film Battleship is an American science fiction action movie inspired by the board game.ĭescription File:Battleships Paper Game.svgĪ typical pen-and-paper version of the game, showing the large "primary" grid and the smaller "tracking" grid Submarine-tracking sonar and aerial reconnaissance to spot ships are also features).Ī minigame version of the game was used in the third season of The Hub's Family Game Night, which uses a 5×5 grid and the first team to sink three ships wins the game. These alter the rules, including the size of the grid (8×12 in the NES version, 8×8 in the Game Boy version), size of ships (it is common to feature a submarine that takes up a single square) and special shot missiles for each ship (for example, in the NES version the cruiser has a 5-shot missile which strikes 5 squares in an X pattern on the grid in one turn. Iterations of Battleship appear as applications on numerous social networking services.īattleship was also part of Hasbro Family Game Night for the PlayStation 2 and Wii, as well as the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade). It is played on an 8×8 grid, and includes slight variations, such as 4-player gameplay, various ship sizes and shapes, as well as the option to make the ships touch each other. In Clubhouse Games for the Nintendo DS, Battleship is known as Grid Attack. Many computer editions of the game have been produced since. Ships may be placed only around the islands, and only in the player's half of the board.īattleship was one of the earliest games to be produced as a computer game, with a version being released for the Z80 Compucolor in 1979, and Atari's Battle Zone following in the early 1980s. In the updated version, each player's board contains several islands on which "captured man" figurines can be placed. In 2010, an updated version of Battleship was released, using hexagonal tiles. In 1977 the same company released a computerized Electronic Battleship, followed in 1989 by Electronic Talking Battleship. In 1967 Milton Bradley introduced a version of the game that used plastic boards and pegs. All of these early editions of the game consisted of pre-printed pads of paper. Strategy Games Co produced a version called Wings which pictured planes flying over the Los Angeles Coliseum. Other versions of the game were printed in the 1930s and 1940s, including the Strathmore Company's Combat: The Battleship Game, Milton Bradley's Broadsides: A Game of Naval Strategy and Maurice L. The first commercial version of the game was Salvo, published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company.

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