Watch “How to play Battleship: Board Games,” a how-to-play guide for Battleship from Hogwa5h Gaming on BoardGameVideo.
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It's another classic board game on Hogwa5h Gaming! Lead your naval forces to victory and match wits with your foes in this game of tactics, logic and sometimes just blind luck.
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Some how-to-play. Battleship is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 6 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 16 other videos.
2 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Battleship, from BoardGameGeek:
Battleship was originally a pencil-and-paper public domain game known by different names, but Milton Bradley made it into the well known board game in 1967. The pencil and paper grids were changed to plastic grids with holes that could hold plastic pegs used to record the guesses.
Each player deploys his ships (of lengths varying from 2 to 5 squares) secretly on a square grid. Then each player shoots at the other's grid by calling a location. The defender responds by "Hit!" or "Miss!". You try to deduce where the enemy ships are and sink them. First to do so wins.
The Salvo variant listed in the rules allows each player to call out from 1 to 5 shots at a time depending on the amount of ships the player has left (IE: players each start off with 5 ships, so they start off with 5 shots. As ships are sunk, the players gets fewer shots). This version of the game is closer to the original pencil-and-paper public domain game. Many versions of the pencil-and-paper game have different amounts of shots based on the ship (IE: Battleship: 5 shots. Destroyer: 3 Shots, Etc.).
