Table feel
Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, with frequent interaction and minimal emphasis on cooperation.
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Battleship: Card Game
From Hasbro's web site: "Brace yourself for search-and-destroy battle intensity as you compete with the enemy to keep your ships afloat. Play peg cards and power cards to find, hit and sink your opponent’s fleet of five ships. Each ship has a special power! Choose from beginner o...
Players
2
Time
?-?
Age
7+
Weight
1.13
Rating
5.90
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Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, with frequent interaction and minimal emphasis on cooperation.
Teach
2.3
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
3.3
Low interaction
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
2.8
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
The Battleship: Card Game has a high replayability score due to its variability in gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and player interaction. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with room for players to improve their strategy over time. It adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the effort.
Luck profile
The Battleship: Card Game has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While there is some room for players to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy.
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From Hasbro's web site: "Brace yourself for search-and-destroy battle intensity as you compete with the enemy to keep your ships afloat. Play peg cards and power cards to find, hit and sink your opponent’s fleet of five ships. Each ship has a special power! Choose from beginner or advanced rules for edge-of-your seat excitement.Includes 24 coordinate cards, 52 destruction cards, 4 reference cards and instructions." Game play: To begin, each player shuffles and places their twelve Coordinate cards facedown in a 3x4 grid. They then draw five cards from their Destruction Card deck. Players take turns playing one card, then re-drawing up to five cards in hand. Players can play the following cards: White peg cards to search for ships in the other player's grid; Red peg cards (of variable strength) that damage revealed ships; Power cards that have variable abilities. In addition, revealed ships guide their players additional powers, allowing for rule-bending changes to the game. The first player to eliminate all five of their opponent's ships wins! The game from 2014 is now part of the Shuffle series of games and now simply called Battleship.
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Designers
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Dustin DePenning
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ASS Altenburger Spielkarten
Cartamundi
Hasbro
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