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Is the "no ships adjacent to other ships" rule part of the original commercial Battleship game? When I played it with my family, we didn't follow that rule, and

by schoen 5y ago

Is the "no ships adjacent to other ships" rule part of the original commercial Battleship game? When I played it with my family, we didn't follow that rule, and so there was considerable scope for ambiguity about whether nearby hits were part of the same ship or not.

whitexn--g28h 5y ago
This is the commercial version I remember which has less ships, a smaller board and no adjacency rules https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf
- jtokoph 5y ago
  I love how the game came without the labels pre-attached. Gone are the days of "some assembly required".
  - dylan604 5y ago
    Of all of the assembly required, I wonder why just this one sticker on the outside. The interior had insert cards/stickers for the ocean and other inserts in the lid to look like HUD console or something [0]. So why not make thos assembly required too? [0]https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Battleship.jpg https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Battleship.jp...
  - frosted-flakes 5y ago
    Not really. My young cousins got a battleship ge very similar to this as a Christmas gift last year, stickers not yet applied.
Gare 5y ago
MB version appears to allow it, and I recall playing it like you did.
whiskyant 5y ago
Nope, don't think any commercial version has that rule. Seems like a house rule or a misunderstanding of the official ruleset.
- 0xFF69B4 5y ago
  European versions have this rule [1]. I wasn't aware that the US version allowed adjacent ship placement until I bought a commercial version for my kid last Christmas and started looking into strategies. 1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffe_versenken#Vorbereitung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffe_versenken#Vorbereitung
NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
I don't know why it would be a rule but the one time I tried it, I got absolutely rekt and never did it again. May have been because I put ALL my ships in one big blob, but typically people will fire at adjacent hits until they don't get any, so I think it's a terrible strategy anyway.
efitz 5y ago
There was no “no adjacency” rule in the official board game. This jumped out at me when I read the article; it is a significant change. Also, the board game had a different ship length distribution; the board game is biased towards fewer, longer ships: 1x Len 5 1x Len 4 2x Len 3 1x Len 2 The length one ships in the article are weird, especially with the no adjacency rule they quickly rule out large sections of the board.
- wst_ 5y ago
  It's not weird. I played article version my whole life and never knew different ones existed. It could help you if you're lucky enough to hit it. But it also can help you if this is your last ship on the board, which happens quite often actually.

by schoen 5y ago

whitexn--g28h 5y ago

This is the commercial version I remember which has less ships, a smaller board and no adjacency rules https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf

jtokoph 5y ago
I love how the game came without the labels pre-attached. Gone are the days of "some assembly required".
- dylan604 5y ago
  Of all of the assembly required, I wonder why just this one sticker on the outside. The interior had insert cards/stickers for the ocean and other inserts in the lid to look like HUD console or something [0]. So why not make thos assembly required too? [0]https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Battleship.jpg https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Battleship.jp...
- frosted-flakes 5y ago
  Not really. My young cousins got a battleship ge very similar to this as a Christmas gift last year, stickers not yet applied.

Gare 5y ago

MB version appears to allow it, and I recall playing it like you did.

whiskyant 5y ago

Nope, don't think any commercial version has that rule. Seems like a house rule or a misunderstanding of the official ruleset.

0xFF69B4 5y ago
European versions have this rule [1]. I wasn't aware that the US version allowed adjacent ship placement until I bought a commercial version for my kid last Christmas and started looking into strategies. 1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffe_versenken#Vorbereitung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffe_versenken#Vorbereitung

NaturalPhallacy 5y ago

I don't know why it would be a rule but the one time I tried it, I got absolutely rekt and never did it again. May have been because I put ALL my ships in one big blob, but typically people will fire at adjacent hits until they don't get any, so I think it's a terrible strategy anyway.

efitz 5y ago

There was no “no adjacency” rule in the official board game. This jumped out at me when I read the article; it is a significant change. Also, the board game had a different ship length distribution; the board game is biased towards fewer, longer ships: 1x Len 5 1x Len 4 2x Len 3 1x Len 2 The length one ships in the article are weird, especially with the no adjacency rule they quickly rule out large sections of the board.

wst_ 5y ago
It's not weird. I played article version my whole life and never knew different ones existed. It could help you if you're lucky enough to hit it. But it also can help you if this is your last ship on the board, which happens quite often actually.