Battleships - Let's change a rule!

Good old Battleships! I use to play this game a lot when I was younger, I wasn't bad at it either. Anyways, I was thinking about the rules of Battleships and thought to myself: 'What would happen if I added a new rule to the game?'

I thought of two rules in the end, and played them both separately:

-First rule that I thought of was more of a change in the mechanics of Battleships, changing the amount of guesses players had during their turn. The way I did this was by introducing a 6-sided die. You rolled the die when it was your turn and the number you roll is the amount of guesses you have for that turn. This was a fun and random mechanic as players now rely on both guessing the correct squares and on their luck for rolling a high number. When I played with this new mechanic I started to enjoy Battleships more than last time as before the pacing of the game can be very slow and a little frustrating, especially if you keep missing.

-The second rule I thought of was a time limit for each go. This was to prevent players from stalling or taking too long to choose a square. This also put more pressure on each player as if they pass the time limit they miss their go. The time limit I chose was 10 seconds which although fastened the pace a little was still too slow for me, so then I chose 5 seconds. This may be too fast for some players and would make them guess more randomly than systematically so I guess the time limit would have to be agreed by both players for it to work properly.