Battleship (1931)
Playtime: 30
Min. Age: 8
Number of Players:
2
Publisher:
(Unknown),
Bookmark Verlag,
Kaywood Corp.,
Invicta Games,
Dourios,
Peter Pan Playthings,
3M,
King International,
Jouets Mont-Blanc,
Gherzi,
Inovac Rima SA,
Guau,
The Purple Cow,
BCF,
Parker Brothers,
Magic Box Int.,
CEFA (Celulosa Fabril S. A.),
Exclusive Toy Corp.,
CBN Razor Company AB,
Montitoys,
Playkar,
MB Giochi,
Hasbro,
Falomir Juegos,
Unikatoy,
Klee,
House of Marbles,
Papita,
Max Dähnert & Söhne,
Pais e Filhos,
Alga,
Gegu Spielwaren GmbH,
Vilpa,
Berliner Spielkarten,
Maple Toys,
Brimtoy,
Stellar Games,
ASS Altenburger Spielkarten,
MB Juegos,
Piatnik,
Grow Jogos e Brinquedos,
ToyCo,
Clementoni,
Goldmerk,
Korea Boardgames,
Paul Lamond Games Ltd,
Whitman,
Schmidt Spiele,
Super Impulse,
Poptoy,
Action Games and Toys Ltd,
Dal Negro,
Enigma (Bergsala Enigma),
AG Müller (AGMüller),
MB Spiele,
CHH Games,
Ruibal Hermanos S.A.,
Ideal,
Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore),
Wilco Publishing,
El Greco,
Aristoplay,
Lakeside,
Tactic,
danspil,
Tesco,
HEMA,
Novedades Montecarlo,
Peri Spiele,
Milton Bradley,
Chad Valley Co Ltd.,
Nilco S.A.,
Sala,
Trixy Games,
The American Belt Company,
MB Jeux,
Mulder,
Noris Spiele,
Games International BV,
Smethport Specialty Co.,
House of Games,
Top That! Publishing PLC,
Marc Piqué Reg.,
Edition Michael Fischer GmbH (EMF Verlag),
Transogram,
Palet spil,
Winning Solutions (WS Game Company),
Saitek,
Nu-Bef,
Carlit,
Alexander,
MB Spellen,
Selecta Spielzeug,
Merit,
Spear's Games
Designers:
Clifford Von Wickler
Artists:
Taavi Oolberg
Mechanics:
Paper-and-Pencil,
Secret Unit Deployment,
Deduction
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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.).
In 2008, Hasbro "reinvented" the game into Battleship (Revised).
Some history of the published versions of the game:
1931: Starex Novelty Co. of NY publishes Salvo.
1933: The Strathmore Co. publishes Combat, The Battleship Game.
1943: Milton Bradley publishes the pad-and-pencil game Broadsides, The Game of Naval Strategy.
1943: Also published in 1943 Sink it by the L R Gebert Co. for distribution by G. Krueger Brewing Co.
1940's: Maurice L. Freedman Co. of RI publishes Warfare Naval Combat.
1961: Ideal publishes Salvo.
Other titles over the years have included Swiss Navy, Sunk (Parker Bros.), Convoy (Transogram), Wings (Strategy Games Co. of California), and Naval Battle (3M Paper and Pencil Version) .
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.).
In 2008, Hasbro "reinvented" the game into Battleship (Revised).
Some history of the published versions of the game:
1931: Starex Novelty Co. of NY publishes Salvo.
1933: The Strathmore Co. publishes Combat, The Battleship Game.
1943: Milton Bradley publishes the pad-and-pencil game Broadsides, The Game of Naval Strategy.
1943: Also published in 1943 Sink it by the L R Gebert Co. for distribution by G. Krueger Brewing Co.
1940's: Maurice L. Freedman Co. of RI publishes Warfare Naval Combat.
1961: Ideal publishes Salvo.
Other titles over the years have included Swiss Navy, Sunk (Parker Bros.), Convoy (Transogram), Wings (Strategy Games Co. of California), and Naval Battle (3M Paper and Pencil Version) .
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