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tvinay's Battle Field (Other)
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| [January 21, 2009 06:03:07 AM]
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Battle Field
Players:
This is a two-player game.
Initial Setup:
Each player draws his own 8x8 matrix in which the rows are named by alphabets and columns by numbers; hence each cell can be referred as A1, D8 and so on. Four predefined shapes (Sub, Tank, Ship and Plane), with fixed sizes, are drawn on the matrix, without any overlaps.
The basic theme of the game is: war- find/guess the location of the war-machines therby destroying them. Initially all the cells in the matrix are open; they get closed during the course of the game. A war-machine is destroyed if all the cells it occupies get closed. The goal of the game is to destroy all the opponent’s war machines, and the first person to do so is the winner.
About the Basic Shapes:
Submarine (sub): A straight line (should only be horizontal or vertical) occupying 3 cells
Eg: ---
Tank: T-shaped object (which can be drawn in any direction) occupying 4 cells.
Eg:
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Ship: L shaped object (which can be drawn in any direction) occupying 5 cells.
Eg:
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Plane: A '+' shaped object, occupying 9 cells
Eg:
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Playing Instructions:
In each turn a player selects three cells to attack the opponent’s war-machines. An opponent marks these as closed and if these cells overlap with that of his war-machine’s location he has to say so. For instance, player-1 says: B2, C2, F8 and player-2 says two hits on submarine. Based on the success of his previous guess a player chooses his next 3 cells to attack. In the above mentioned example by selecting A2 and D2, in his next chance, player-1 can ensure the destruction of player-2’s submarine.
Analysis:
Battle-Field is a fairly simple and interesting game which can be played on the fly. I find it exciting as it requires fair amount of logic and reasoning and yet has trivial design. Initially a player has to carefully spread his war-machines on his matrix. After playing the game several times i believe placing two machines closeby might confuse the opponent, which can gain you extra chances. Things get interesting when the selected cells result hits on multiple machines. One has to carefully keep track of the cells that are already closed and hence avoid un-necessary repetitions. This game can be easily converted into an online game. A non-online version can also be created but computer has to be the second player as each player’s matrix must be hidden from the other. Infact I even remember playing one which had some eye-catchy graphics where each hit on a war-machine is represented by explosions.
My Add-on:
To make things challenging and interesting I would reward a player based on his current selection. Before each turn, a player can select an option called ‘Confident’. When selected, any successful hit by the current guesses will earn him an extra cell for the next turn (a player can guess 4 cells); if not he will lose one and can select only 2 cells next time. Such options can be advantageous when the player is sure about the opponent’s location (in the above mentioned example, the second turn by player-1 guarantees a hit).
Game Play:
First Session:
I played with my roommate who knows about the game. It started out as fun and got really interesting towards the end. My plane and sub were exposed completely by the 7th turn, and I had couple of hits on his tank, ship and plane. As mentioned in my analysis I placed my ship and tank closeby which caught him stuck. He was trying various combinations to figure out the exact locations. He was so frustrated he started picking cells randomly in the confined region. In the meantime I was able to destroy his exposed war-machines but his sub was hiding from me. I guess one has to be lucky especially when it comes to submarine considering its small shape. Finally he figured out the locations of my ship and tank and his sub was still un-touched. He won :(
Second Session:
It was revenge time and I did not want to repeat the same tactic, hence I had my four machines well spread on my matrix. This time I was lucky and got his sub and tank early. He had only a few hits on my plane and tank by then. I got the rest of his war-machines by just losing my sub and tank; my plane and ship were partially exposed. I won :)
This entry has been edited 6 times. It was last edited on Jan 21st, 2009 at 06:31:09.
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tvinay's Battle Field (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Saturday 17 January, 2009
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