https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Tips_battleship 2026-09-30T07:25:45Z Гісторыя версій гэтай старонкі MediaWiki 1.39.0 https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5937&oldid=prev 2020-10-21T16:54:43Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 18:54, 21 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares to sink ships, there aren’t many reliable strategies to use:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares to sink ships, there aren’t many reliable strategies to use:</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Quadrant and Edges Opening Salvo: You’re obviously clueless where to look on your first move. I sometimes plant a salvo in the middle of each quadrant, then I’ll survey the edges and corners.  Beware of repeating this opening strategy with repeat opponents as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it is fairly </del>easily defeated <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strategy </del>if anticipated.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Quadrant and Edges Opening Salvo: You’re obviously clueless where to look on your first move. I sometimes plant a salvo in the middle of each quadrant, then I’ll survey the edges and corners.  Beware of repeating this opening strategy with repeat opponents as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it’s </ins>easily defeated if anticipated.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels the length of your enemy’s undetected target ship(s) and without any misses or previously located ships; then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding longer ships but isn’t helpful for finding the smallest ship (the sub).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels the length of your enemy’s undetected target ship(s) and without any misses or previously located ships; then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding longer ships but isn’t helpful for finding the smallest ship (the sub).</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5936&oldid=prev 2020-10-21T16:53:22Z

<p>Quadrant and Edges Opening Salvo</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 18:53, 21 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares to sink ships, there aren’t many reliable strategies to use:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares to sink ships, there aren’t many reliable strategies to use:</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quadrant and Edges Opening Salvo: You’re obviously clueless where to look on your first move. I sometimes plant a salvo in the middle of each quadrant, then I’ll survey the edges and corners.  Beware of repeating this opening strategy with repeat opponents as it is fairly easily defeated strategy if anticipated.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels the length of your enemy’s undetected target ship(s) and without any misses or previously located ships; then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding longer ships but isn’t helpful for finding the smallest ship (the sub).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels the length of your enemy’s undetected target ship(s) and without any misses or previously located ships; then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding longer ships but isn’t helpful for finding the smallest ship (the sub).</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5811&oldid=prev 2020-10-03T20:50:06Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 22:50, 3 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Радок 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) pattern.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or perpendicular to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be revealed and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) pattern.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or perpendicular to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be revealed and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strategy </del>may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">approach </ins>may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Spaced: arrange ships such that none are touching, or none are within two squares of each other.  This placement might help avoid some hits from opponents searching for the direction to follow after an initial hit.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Spaced: arrange ships such that none are touching, or none are within two squares of each other.  This placement might help avoid some hits from opponents searching for the direction to follow after an initial hit.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Grouped: this is the converse strategy to the spacing strategy, meaning that at least some ships are placed adjacent (and touching) other ships.  This anticipates that once a ship is sunk, the adjacent squares tend to be avoided <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thereafter</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Grouped: this is the converse strategy to the spacing strategy, meaning that at least some ships are placed adjacent (and touching) other ships.  This anticipates that once a ship is sunk, the adjacent squares tend to be avoided<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Once the initial hit on a ship is made, a player will then search the other adjacent squares looking to sink the revealed ship.  If you placed ships adjacent, the opponent may inadvertently hit your adjacent ship.  Regardless, this approach is used because the squares adjacent to a sunken ship are often ignored and passed-over.  The frequent placement of ships next to each other (adjacent) shows the popularity of this approach for placing ships</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5810&oldid=prev 2020-10-03T20:36:05Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 22:36, 3 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Радок 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.  Randomly placed ships can be difficult to detect where there isn’t a regular pattern for your opponent to reveal.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.  Randomly placed ships can be difficult to detect where there isn’t a regular pattern for your opponent to reveal.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">order</del>.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or perpendicular to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be revealed and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pattern</ins>.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or perpendicular to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be revealed and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5806&oldid=prev 2020-10-03T11:28:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 13:28, 3 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for sinking </del>ships, there aren’t <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">too </del>many reliable strategies to use:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Expect to make many random choices of squares <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to sink </ins>ships, there aren’t many reliable strategies to use:</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels the length of your enemy’s undetected target ship(s) and without any misses or previously located ships; then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding longer ships but isn’t helpful for finding the smallest ship (the sub).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Any ship could escape detection so don’t ignore single or parallel channels the length of the remaining undetected ship(s).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels without any misses or previously located ships, then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.  A long ship could elude this strategy so don’t ignore parallel channels</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  Randomly placed ships can be difficult to detect where there isn’t a regular pattern for your opponent to reveal</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) order.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular </del>to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">recognized </del>and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) order.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perpendicular </ins>to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">revealed </ins>and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5805&oldid=prev 2020-10-03T09:12:54Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 11:12, 3 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There aren’t too </del>many <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reliable strategies other than </del>random <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">choice </del>for sinking ships<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Expect to make </ins>many random <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">choices of squares </ins>for sinking ships, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there aren’t too many reliable strategies </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular: once you’ve laid down a few misses</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">look for perpendicular channels without any misses or previously located ships, then try </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular Channels: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels without any misses or previously located ships, then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.  A long ship could elude this strategy so don’t ignore parallel channels</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) order.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at right angles </del>to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be recognized and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) order.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular </ins>to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be recognized and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5791&oldid=prev 2020-10-02T17:15:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 19:15, 2 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There aren’t too many reliable strategies other than random choice for sinking ships:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels without any misses or previously located ships, then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Радок 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 15:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Grouped: this is the converse strategy to the spacing strategy, meaning that at least some ships are placed adjacent (and touching) other ships.  This anticipates that once a ship is sunk, the adjacent squares tend to be avoided thereafter.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Grouped: this is the converse strategy to the spacing strategy, meaning that at least some ships are placed adjacent (and touching) other ships.  This anticipates that once a ship is sunk, the adjacent squares tend to be avoided thereafter.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There aren’t too many reliable strategies for sinking ships:</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels without any misses, then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=5783&oldid=prev 2020-10-01T05:59:14Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 07:59, 1 кастрычніка 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There are a few approaches to use when placing your ships;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Random: ships are placed randomly, without regard to separation between ships and shore.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pattern: the ships are placed in some regular (not random) order.  They may be placed symmetrically, in parallel, or at right angles to each other making a logical pattern - this suggests the pattern could easily be recognized and prosecuted by an opponent to your disadvantage.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Edges: place the ships such that their ends are on, or along, the edge(s) of the grid.  The converse would be to avoid the edges altogether, or to place your ships one square away from the edge, but parallel to it.  This strategy may include either avoiding the corners, or placing ships in the corner.  Using the edges, and especially the corners could lead to easy detection once the edge placements are revealed.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Spaced: arrange ships such that none are touching, or none are within two squares of each other.  This placement might help avoid some hits from opponents searching for the direction to follow after an initial hit.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Grouped: this is the converse strategy to the spacing strategy, meaning that at least some ships are placed adjacent (and touching) other ships.  This anticipates that once a ship is sunk, the adjacent squares tend to be avoided thereafter.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There aren’t too many reliable strategies for sinking ships:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Perpendicular: once you’ve laid down a few misses, look for perpendicular channels without any misses, then try to hit the intersecting square. This strategy works best for finding the longer ships earlier, but not any help for finding the smallest ship.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Pomeroy https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=3756&oldid=prev 2020-01-02T17:01:06Z

<p>Blanked the page</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 19:01, 2 студзеня 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DOMO IS SUPER DUMMM AND EATS GLUE AND CRAYONS!!!!!! HE HATES GIRLS THAT LIKE BOIS AND HE ONLY WANTS BIG HAIRY BOIS TO TOUCH HIM!!!! PLS SUBSCRIBBLE AND LYKE!!!!</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> </table>

Jayerk https://be.doc.boardgamearena.com/index.php?title=Tips_battleship&diff=3625&oldid=prev 2019-10-13T07:19:53Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="be"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Папярэдн. версія</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Версія ад 09:19, 13 кастрычніка 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Радок 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Радок 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>DOMO IS <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BIG </del>SUPER <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GAY AND HAS A SMALL WEE WEE BUT IT STRETCHES ALL THE WAY TO HIS BOOTY HOLE AND HE STICKS IT IN </del>AND <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">OUT </del>AND <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LOVES GAY BOIS</del>!!!!!!!!<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">! BUT ITS OK BECAUSE HE GAI</del>!! PLS SUBSCRIBBLE AND LYKE!!!!</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>DOMO IS SUPER <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DUMMM </ins>AND <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">EATS GLUE </ins>AND <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">CRAYONS</ins>!!!!!! <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">HE HATES GIRLS THAT LIKE BOIS AND HE ONLY WANTS BIG HAIRY BOIS TO TOUCH HIM</ins>!!!! PLS SUBSCRIBBLE AND LYKE!!!!</div></td></tr> </table>

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