• Coloured wool for lives
• 6 Cards bearing the name "DESTROYER"
• 4 Cards bearing the name "SUBMARINE"
• 2 Cards bearing the name "BATTLESHIP"
Instead of cards you could use coloured counters or plastic clothes pegs.
This is best played with three or more teams. Each team is given a base which is their
naval shipyard. Each player is allowed to take one card from their shipyard to take part in the combat. When they take a card, they also take a length of their teams coloured wool to tie round one arm. A combat area is marked off in the centre of the field and combat may only take place within this area. Combat takes place in the following manner, a player will tag a player from an opposing team. Both players then compare their cards as follows:
A battleship takes a destroyer, a destroyer takes a submarine and a submarine takes a
battleship. The losing boy hands over his piece of wool to the winner and returns to his
shipyard for a new piece of wool. Combat can only take place between two players who
are each wearing a piece of wool. If both players have craft of equal status such as two
submarines then it is an even match and there is no victor, they then have to go and
challenge somebody else. A boy can exchange ships only at his shipyard when he is
getting a new piece of wool. The winning team is the one which has collected the most
pieces of wool at the end of the game.