As said this is from the spiritual successor Supreme Commander. That said, if you want to play a modern TA spiritual successor I can't recommend beyond all reason enough. It's IMHO the best RTS on the market.
They're referencing the Stena Immaculate, a US Ship carrying aviation fuel for the USAAF. That was parked in one spot in the North Sea, without lookouts, and was hit by a Russian-captained Portuguese-flagged cargo ship and very badly damaged a few weeks ago.
The British have detained the captain after rescuing as many of the American and Russian crews as they could, the Americans haven't even written a strongly worded letter.
I feel like that should be a part of the game. Instead of dropping a bomb, you can reposition a boat to an area that doesn't have bombs dropped on it. Maybe there would be a limit to how far you can move it.
Now, imagine you had rules where you could either move the ships 1 square forward or back, or rotate them 90° after each hit, but they can’t move into a space occupied by another ship or a sunk ship. It would be make this game wildly harder.
Probably no fun and frustrating though. But way harder.
Might be a good videogame. Same grid and moves. Add your rotate or advance 1 square on ships.
... then, make the grid significantly larger and add mines then add explosive range to missiles that shows near misses to adjacent squares to give hints.
I played one at a friend's house that had a single moving boat. It required teams of three people. One was the captain who decided where the ship moved. One was the radar who had to guess and track enemy ship movement and torpedo hits and misses. The other was boat systems that tracked the turns until the torpedos, mines, radar ping, and dash were available. The worst part is it was all real time and both boats moved simultaneously.
Edit: I forgot they were also submarines so the only time you get a knowledge on where the enemy was is if you hit them or they surfaced for air.
Might be a good videogame. Same grid and moves. Add your rotate or advance 1 square on ships.
... then, make the grid significantly larger and add mines then add explosive range to missiles that shows near misses to adjacent squares to give hints.
Risk is absolutely one of them lmao I set up a game of Risk Star Wars the Clone Wars with my brother for about 30 minutes before a dinosaur toy came careening across the whole board, wiping everything out. My youngest brother felt left out so he just sat watching before sneaking up to the table and unleashing plastic fury before skedaddling away. Boy was I pissed lmao
I’m pretty convinced that Battleship is actually an okay game, but most people don’t like it because, growing up, everyone played against someone who always cheated. That experience ruined the game. Now, nobody trusts their opponents, which takes all the fun and strategy out of it. So in the end, no one wants to play anymore.
You’re right. Online battleship, playing against a computer, is so fun that I’ve literally played a dozen games straight. It’s the human factor that ruins it.
Shh please. This person is trying to build a digital record proving they love technology and hate humans so they're spared in the machine wars.
Or they are an AI themselves trolling to spread human hate and technology love.
Or actually, maybe when it's digital it doesn't really matter if its human or computer making the decisions. You aren't having any communication with them usually.
Wow my family must have been so innocent lol. Nobody, not my parents nor extended family nor my siblings and I, ever dreamed of doing something like that, and Battleship was always such a fun game.
That's one of the reasons why in my childhood this game was usually played with pen and paper. No moving shit around after they were marked in the grid. Much harder to cheat in general.
maybe a fun rule to run. every second turn you can roll a dice and move one ship according to tiles - sideways is 2 , forward is 1 etc. home rules of course :P
You don’t have to wait the whole weekend. Firehouse will take him 24/7. You could get him there and be back home drinking a beer in under an hour. Think of the money you’ll save
I would cluster my ships together when I was a kid as a diversion. I'd make it so that my sister might get 3 hits and sink a 2 hit ship. She would stop firing in that area because she would think that she was "done in that spot"
Or maybe there was actually 4 ships there the whole time. What kind of idiot would put all their ships in one spot? This guy.
I do it because my 5 year old just learned to play, and I want to help make sure he doesn't accidentally call spaces he already tried and to be able to discuss his strategy with him.
Besides that, though, I have no desire to track my opponent's misses as it doesn't add any enjoyment for me.
In competitive Battleship tournaments every piece of information is valuable. How your opponent guesses and probes the playfield tells you not only their search patterns but where they suspect you placed your assets. This allows for a depth of strategies in the standard best of 7 tournament series. My ELO at ranked battleship is 2420.
A cursory search revealed this 2016 Bracket for something titled "Battleship World Championships" which had 22 participants. I was unable to find any more information about this though.
A few others have popped up like this one in 2023 or Twitch streamer Ludwig's Battleship Tournament in 2021, though that one notably uses the Steam version that has power-ups, irregular board configurations and ship shapes. (I have no idea whether those features were used in said tournament I'm not gonna scrub through clips to check).
So yeah it seems to just be tournaments every so often.
Online Battleship with matchmaking would be fun to see.
Okay, that's actually brilliant, though? Your kid is thinking outside the box and that should be commended! Now, the next step is to have someone else make sure he follows the rules!
When I was a kid I remember using my pegs to track where my dad had guessed, so If he hit a ship I would say no and just move the ship to where he hadn't guessed yet. I still feel bad lol
I used to do this when my brother was little and not good at games yet. He eventually picked up on it and did it back. Made the game more interesting haha
When I was a kid, I had a Star Wars version of Battleship. My dad told me that there were “special formations in the book you had to follow” so he graciously set them up for me. I could never understand why he always won
I was a much better cheater at battleship.. I kept track of all my Dad's misses so that it was at least theoretically possible for my Dad to be losing so badly.
Instead of investing in war, he invested in his infrastructure, education and medical centres. He made his country a better place, with no intention of war
It makes you little mad at first, but make sure you take a picture of both sides of the board and especially a picture with him flashing a victory smile and pointing to his winning strategy: no ships on the board. Make sure you backup those pictures. Finally set a reminder for the approximate date when he might be going to college, leaving for the military , etc.
Years later when you look through those pictures and I guarantee tears will flow. You would then do anything to be back at that mildly infuriated moment and smile!
Clearly, he had great military intelligence. Why risk Navy losses when the battle could be won without any ships deployment? A mastermind of a general🫡
My tactic would always be to be group all my ships in one giant mass, so you don't know what you are hitting.
Then hide my smallest ship somewhere else.
So you're telling me, all I have to do to get 50k karma, all I have to do is post a faked photo of a board game I have lying around and lie about its context?
When I was younger I used to put the white pins at the bottom where my dad shot at me and missed. So if he hit my ship I just moved my ship to where he didn’t hit yet. Don’t remember who won
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u/Ok-Wrongdoer-4399 21h ago
You played “I win” with him, not battleship.