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		scrumper on July 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Battle Lab: The Fog of War Is that the old paper game where you place shots on grid references to sink your opponent's ships? Or something else?

smacktoward on July 17, 2015 [–]

Milton Bradley made a very popular mass-market version of the paper game using a plastic gameboard and ships that has been a longtime bestseller: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2425/battleship

scrumper on July 17, 2015 | [–]

OK it is the game I'm thinking of. I remember the set too. Never thought of it as modeling fog of war before, though.

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