Comment on battlecheat

• restingOface@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most iterations of the game assume you cannot place ships right next to each other.

  I have never heard that rule. I cannot see that anywhere, even as a variation

  • https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-ca/instruction/battleship-game
  • https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Battleship
  • https://officialgamerules.org/game-rules/battleship/
  • https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/the-basic-rules-of-battleship-411069

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, I dug down and apparently it’s a regional quirk?

    Even the Wikipedia article about the game doesn’t mention it in English, but does mention it in Russian.

    English:

    Before play begins, each player secretly arranges their ships on their primary grid. Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. The number of squares for each ship is determined by the type of ship. The ships cannot overlap (i.e., only one ship can occupy any given square in the grid) or be placed diagonally.

    Russian (translated by yours truly):

    The playing field is typically a 10x10 square, on which the fleet is placed. <…> When placed, ships should not touch each other by sides or corners. Some variations may lack this rule.

    Also, apparently it is common for the game to have 5-long ships, which don’t appear in the Russian versions.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)

    ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Морской_бой_(игра)

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    • Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is also the case for the German version I player, funny.

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    • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How odd!

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think it’s for Russian knock off version of Battleship and not the real version. Especially with the talk about all 5 ships being carrier sized 5 peg ships.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That isn’t a rule at all, dude. You must had had a house rule when you were a kid.

  It is in the rules that you can’t stack ships tho. Lol

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Certainly not just a house rule, I’ve met it everywhere.

    And, as it seems from further down the thread, it seems to be the difference because large parts of the world rely on Hasbro’s Battleship as the rule source, while the other seems to play by older rules (by the time Hasbro/Milton Bradley released the game, it was already almost a century old).

    Others from Spain and Germany also seem to know that rule, but it was not in the official Hasbro version of the game. This is what appears to make that difference.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol at trying to cop out on being wrong by claiming you were basing your answer on the pre 1963 pencil and paper game of Battleship. What’s worse is that you COULDN’T stack ships in the paper version and that the picture\meme for this post is using the boardgame.

      You’re a riot, man. People must love how right you always say you are.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re either serious about it and trying to turn a friendly game meme discussion into some kind of battle, or you’re trolling and doing so with 0 finesse. Keep your game a little higher.

        Either way, since you love being contested, here are pre-1963 ship figures for Battleship, dated early XX century:

        1000121393

        Hasbro hasn’t been first in that, either. They are just large enough to dictate what is considered to be “official”. And this is far from isolated case.

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