

The first commercial version of the game was Salvo, published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company.

Horsman's 1890 game Basilinda, and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. The game of Battleship is thought to have its origins in the French game L'Attaque played during World War I, although parallels have also been drawn to E. 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 warships are marked. The player would be tracking the success of their own shots in a separate grid.īattleship (also known as 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.
