In 1967 Milton Bradley introduced a version of the game that used plastic boards and pegs. Players in a Battleship tournament aboard a U.S. The game has spawned electronic versions, video games, smart device apps and a film. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was released as a plastic board game by Milton Bradley in 1967. Players alternate turns calling 'shots' at the other player's ships, and the objective of the game is to destroy the opposing player's fleet.īattleship is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each player's fleet of ships (including battleships) are marked. The player would be tracking the success of their own shots in a separate grid.īattleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle ) is a strategy type guessing game for two players. The grey boxes are the ships placed by the player, and the cross marks show the squares that their opponent has fired upon. A map of one player's ships and the hits against them, from a game in progress.
