https://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=40 Discuss about battleboats game or find new opponents. (Also Dark Battleboats & Battleboats Plus!) en https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1199469 Dang, I wish i had fun. Well, past is past. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:27:48 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1171187 Hey asking for anyone who loves playing battleboats, bb plus, or dark bb to come and join Brian's 1971 Pub. On September 15th we will be having tournaments in each of these three games. So request a membership and so you can play. Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:44:15 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1170613 I have some dark battleboats and regular battleboats games set up in the waiting games room for top notch players. Please take one of the games. I would love to play. Thank you and good luck. Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:40:07 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1120666 coan.net: I want to play every one of those games Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:12:38 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025542 Oh my gosh, these awesome ideas makes the Battleboats game way more interesting! Especially Moving and Choice... well for vhoice I know maybe something better... why nog have some four-boat configurations too? Those will be a hard way to find, but an opponent should know has has hard times, he even has one more shot! Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:06:07 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025347 pedestrian: I LOVE that idea - let the sea monster attack 1 square at random each turn. One of the things I know I don't like about regular battleboats is it takes longer (many users like faster games), so having this 2nd square always getting attacked will also speed up the game. Plus like you said, for me - I usually follow a "pattern" to search for boats, and that would force me to adjusted continually during the game. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:39:07 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025346 coan.net: Nice ideas, I like the Moving Battleboats best! Here's another: We already have Behemoth Chess, so why not Leviathan Battleboats? It would be like "plain" Battleboats (one shot per turn), except the "beast" strikes at a random square on each turn, so effectively you have two shots. The random factor means you would have to adjust your shooting pattern during the game. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:23:53 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025344 AbigailII: I would say no, that should not be allowed to happen (in my opinion) Since in the real world (yea, like this game is really based in the real world) - but in the real world you would not see boats be able to do that, so I would say not to let it happen in the game also. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:40 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025343 coan.net: As stated, with diagonal boats, you can have boats intersecting each other. (Say one boat on a1-b2-c3, the other on b3-c2). Is that intended? Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:09:19 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1025342 Lets make it at least 3 posts this year. This site needs more Battleboat variants. Below is a list of variant ideas - some are my idea's, others are ideas from others below. Ideas - comments - thoughts. Tricky Battleboats (Plus & Dark) – This is where three (3) dummy items are also placed on the board to trick the other user who might hit it to think they hit a ship. (The dummy item does NOT need to be sunk to win the game.) They dummy item could be a piece of driftwood, a mine, a life raft, or something similar. Sphere Battleboats (Plus & Dark) - Rules & everything is the same, but game is played on the sphere – like the Froglet games, where a boat can be placed off the edge onto the other side.. Bonus Battleboats – One shot each turn, if you get a hit when you “submit this move”, the game is back in your hands to make another move. Dark Battleboats Plus – You start with 5 shots each, but you lose 1 for each of your ships that are sunk. NOT ONLY do you not see which ships you sunk, you DO NOT see your own board either (that is once you set up your own pieces) – This is to solve the problem of seeing your opponent shooting 4 shots and then knowing you sunk a ship that way.) HexBoats – Game is played on a hex / honeycomb type of board, so instead of boats being places either up/down or left/right – they will be able to be placed in 3 different directions. Super Battleboats / Diagonal Boats (regular,plus,dark) – use same board, same rules – only different is you are able to place your boats diagonal. (I would think this wouldn’t be too hard to program, the hardest part would probable be getting new graphics of the boats on the board going diagonal.) Moving Battleboats Plus – A variant of the Plus game. During a turn, you can use one of your “shots” to move one of your boats 1 position in the game. (So if your piece is from left to right) – you could use one of your available shots to move your boat 1 square over to the left or right. (or use 2 available shots to move your boat 2 squares.) You can not move past the edge of the board, you can not change the up/down to left/right position of your boats…. but you CAN move to a place that has already been shot. (So you can re-shot a square that has been shot at before.) So you can try to hide your boats some, but at the same time you lose one of your shots to try to find your opponents boats. Choice Battlebaots Plus (Choice Dark Battleboats) – You can choose what boats you will place on your own board. The choice of 10 configurations & your opponent will not know which configuration you picked. The choices: 1 5-ship, 1 4-ship, 2 3-ships, 1 2-ship (classic) (17) 2 4-ships, 2 3-ships, 1 2-ship (16) 1 5-ship, 1 4-ship, 1 3-ship, 2 2-ships (16) 2 5-ships, 2 4-ships (18) 1 4-ship, 2 3-ships, 2 2-ships (14) 2 5-ships, 2 3-ships, 1 2-ship (18) 5 3-ships (15) 1 6-ship, 1 4-ship, 1 3-ship, 2 2-ships (17) 1 6-ship, 1 5-ship, 1 4-ship, 1 2-ship (18) 3 4-ships, 1 3-ship, 1 2-ship (17) Each choice has between 14-18 hittable spots. Some of the lower 14/15 will mean it will take less shots for your opponent to beat you, but you also mostly have more smaller harder to find boats. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:57:18 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1018316 Thom27: it sounds good Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:05:40 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=1016150 battleboats plus is usually a fun game, but it can be tedious near the end, when both players have only one ship left and thus only one shot per turn. I'd suggest to give the players an additional shot i.e. the number of unsunk ships plus one. Also, the first player should have only 3 instead of 6 shots in the first turn, this should make the game almost balanced. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:44:15 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=850851 As I just had 10 turns and 34 shots without hitting a single boat in this game of Battleboats Plus: Battleboats Plus (Gordon Shumway vs. geissbock) I wondered if there is any record keeping like in Ludo, like most misses, best hit/miss ratio or stuff like that? Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:10:10 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=849221 Been playing the boats more & more there now Those diagonal ones make it a great game as the board is based on squares, therefore boats can go across each other (A1, B2, C3, D4 & D5) and the other (D1, C2, B3 & A4) for example. You can set the games to include diagonal boats or not, and also have boats that just use ONE space, would be like having one Frog in the game OR we could call it Life Raft (great idea monkeyboy lol) In fact what is great about BugCafe, well a few of there games, is you can create your own rules as such, like design your own Scrabble boards, any size you wish, and set bonus squares anywhere you wish them, how ever many tiles you want. Would be great if we could do that here with Boats here, decide how many of which boats we use in a game In fact be great if we could do it for any game here that Fencer can not find time to make even the smallest changes for * copied to 'Other Game Sites DB' * Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:19:57 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=833917 rod03801: No BB+, please. Better X shots per player's turn, say 3. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:26:04 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=833831 rod03801: yes, i am just playing it on BugCafe. Considering how supposedly backward that site is, they are getting some great new games I will mention it on Feature again Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:11:54 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=833809 MadMonkey: MMM, yeah, I asked for that 3 years ago.. LOL.. I called it Super Battleboats. Battleboats (rod03801, 2004-10-25 04:32:01) I think it would be fun. As long as it was a "plus" version. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:52:38 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=833795 Just a thought about variants in boats, lets introduce diagonal ones as well like they have on BugCafe Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:13:06 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=812374 ColonelCrockett: There's a bigger advantage of going first in dark battleboats than in battleboats, because there are more shots in dark battleboats than in battleboats. The more shots you can make per turn, the bigger the advantage the first player has. (Taken into extreme: with 100 shots/turn, the second player would never win). Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:04:03 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=40&ngi=812329 just to be clear . . . the advantage of having the first move in either battleboats or Dark Battleboats seems about equal. Even if such a claim were true the simple solution would be as suggested . . . playing more than a single game with reversed colors. I am near the top of the Dark Battleboats ladder and I play multiple game matchs almost exclusively (unless an opponent of approximate equal rating level requests differently). Also, I fail to see how a simultaneous move would help in BB or Dark . . . the advantages in BB+ are obvious though. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:27:22 CEST