Battleship
Overview
Battleship is a classic game of naval combat in which two players use observation, and inductive reasoning to determine the location of their opponent's warship and skin them.
It is thought that battleship's origins come form the French game L'Attaque played during World War I.In 1931 the Starex company released the game Salvo, which is considered the first commercial version of Battleship. Throughout the 1930's and 1940's many other publishers released similar games including Milton Bradley's Broadsides.
The iconic version of Battleship using plastic boards and pegs was published in 1967 and conceived by Ed Hutchins. In 1979 Battleship went on to be one of the earliest games to be produced as a computer game.
Players
2 player
Resources
- 10 X 10 grid, 2 for each player
- Grids should be labeled along the sides with letters and numbers.
- Pen or pencil
Goal
Destroy (hit) all your opponents battle ships
Setup
Each player is given 2 10 X 10 grid. One grid will be the player's field the other grid is their opponents grid.
Each player will place their ships on their "player's field" by marking the squares to represent each ship. Ships consist of the following:
- 1 x Aircraft carrier - 5 squares
- 1 x Battleship - 4 squares
- 1 x Cruiser - 3 squares
- 2 x Destroyers - 2 squares each
Game Mechanics
- Each turn the player will take a shot at attacking their opponent, by calling out coordinates on the grid (e.g. D5).
- If the opponent's ship is located within that grid, the opponent will respond with "hit" and place an "X" on their player's grid. The player should mark an "x" on that space for their opponent's grid.
- If the opponent's ship is not located within the grid, then will respond with "miss".The player should mark an "0" on that space for their opponent's grid.
- If all spaces of a ship are hit, then that ship has been sunk and the player should respond with "You sunk my battleship".
Outcomes
The first player to loose all their ships will loose the game.