Pure Psychology
Strategy/Tactics
Placement
- Note opponent placement at end of previous game
- Place your ships differently …or not!
- Scout and Sub are hardest to find with only two and three squares
- In general ships placed directly adjacent are more susceptible to accidental discovery during neighbouring ship attacks
- ..but this also means your opponent may well avoid or reduce targeting adjacent squares to existing destroyed ships
- .. so variety could include placing your scout alongside a larger vessel or between larger vessels, perhaps similar with your submarine
- Another tactic is to put all your larger vessels close together leaving oceans of space to hide your scout and sub, a severe test for most
Search patterns
- Watch opponent searching tactics for predictable patterns, favourite quarters etc
- Don’t give too much away re your own search patterns butbe careful to minimise spaces in later game requiring extra shots to be sure of hitting the smallest remaining vessel eg 3 squares for certain hit on scout, 5 squares for sub
- If you’re a chess player you might like to try knight’s move pattern
- some players habitually avoid targeting where they’ve put their own ships, and some do the opposite… another pattern to look out for