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minus-squareEntertainmeonly (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up65·1 day agoThe real battleship cheat was marking the opponents shots as well as your own and moving ships accordingly. I mean, it’s not like real ships don’t move.
minus-squareHazel@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 day agoDon’t you always mark the opponent’s shots?
minus-squareEntertainmeonly (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·1 day agoThey didn’t come with enough markers originally to do that. The only way i was able to as a kid was because we had the peices from a second game set.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·22 hours agoIt’s always had way more miss markers than we ever needed. And it was in the mid 80s
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoI suppose strictly speaking you only need to mark the hits. If you’re not cheating, your opponent’s misses don’t really matter much.
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI must be not that bright because I played many games of battleship in my childhood and never even considered the possibility.
minus-squareStarik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 day agoYou’re not allowed to reposition after the game starts
minus-squarered_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·19 hours agoPlease. We are simply introducing an element of realism.
The real battleship cheat was marking the opponents shots as well as your own and moving ships accordingly. I mean, it’s not like real ships don’t move.
Don’t you always mark the opponent’s shots?
They didn’t come with enough markers originally to do that. The only way i was able to as a kid was because we had the peices from a second game set.
It’s always had way more miss markers than we ever needed. And it was in the mid 80s
I suppose strictly speaking you only need to mark the hits. If you’re not cheating, your opponent’s misses don’t really matter much.
I must be not that bright because I played many games of battleship in my childhood and never even considered the possibility.
You’re not allowed to reposition after the game starts
Maybe you aren’t. ITT we cheatin’.
Please. We are simply introducing an element of realism.
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