EXCLUSIVE: Let Sea Battle commence. TF1 has ordered a new primetime gameshow based on a classic ship-sinking strategy game. The naval battle is transported to a large studio in the show for the French ...

The producers said the Sea Battle format was inspired by the ‘Bataille Navale’ board game. In turn, that is based upon the classic pen-and-paper strategy game in which players place their ...

The pen-and-paper game is thought to have originated ... Milton Bradley (since acquired by Hasbro) launched a version of the game in the 1960s — ‘Battleship' — with plastic pegs that became ...