Broadside Empires Of Steel is a 1/1500 scale table top miniatures game set in the era of the Great War Dreadnought.

You and your opponent will each choose a fleet of warships from a dreadnought era empire to command. There are nine nations to choose from.

A game of Broadside takes place on a 6 x 4 foot table. Players choose a mission to play from the Broadside mission book. The mission outlines how the fleets will meet and under what conditions the battle will take place.

Each of your ships has a corresponding ship management card. At a glance you can see how fast your ship is going, how much damage it has taken and what weapons it has.

Each time you activate a ship it moves, turns, shoots and the repairs damage. However you will give your ships orders to enhance the particular action you want your ship to better. Whether the order will focus it’s gunnery or take evasive action, your ship will perform better with orders.

Each ship has a corresponding points value listed on its ship management card. Both players agree on a points total for both of their fleets. The standard fleet sizes are 400, 600 and 800. A game goes for six rounds. The player who has sunk or critically damaged the most points worth of enemy ships by this time is the winner.

Players can build their fleets in our free online ‘Shipyards‘ fleet builder. Once you have built a fleet you can print the ship list out on your home printer along with its corresponding ship stat cards for each ship you have included. Here is a video about how to build a fleet.

Should one player not be able to reach the point total exactly, they are able to choose an upgrade card to balance out their points.

Here are the products that make up Broadside: Empires of Steel.

The ‘Conqueror’ box set

Conqueror contains the rule book, the games card decks, tokens, the Broadside turning tool and four battleships.

Every player requires a Conqueror box to play a full size game of Broadside. However two players can use the contents of just one box to have a battleship duel and learn the rules.

The ‘Token Set’

Broadside: Empires of Steel is a quick game to play considering you and your opponent will each command a fleet of ships. Experienced players should reach the end of the game in two and a half hours. We achieve this easy pace by using tokens & cards to show the status of each of your ships at a glance.

These tokens come in the conqueror box. There are enough tokens in this pack to manage a whole fleet.

The ‘Range Ruler’

15 inches in length with a custom handle the games range ruler makes movement and short range finding very much easier.

Replace your tape measure with this tool for a more accurate move. This ruler also has a green target placed on it.

Hold the target over the center of your ship to see the 12″ of range around the ship. Line the green target line up with the green line on your ships sea zone template to move your ship up to 12″. This tool is again designed with speeding up your game in mind and is available only at Broadside events.

600 point Fleet boxes

If you are new to naval gaming or tabletop gaming in general; you may want to play a few games of Broadside before choosing a nation to collect. Our German and Royal navy fleet boxes contain a complete fleet of ships that you can use with the ships contained in conqueror.

Each box has seven ships and approximately 600 game points. There are currently two battleship and two battlecruiser boxes available: Royal Navy & German Navy. Each box contains the unpainted and unassembled ship miniatures, their transparent acrylic bases, double sided ship stat cards and two name sticker for each ship.

Purchasing individual ships.

To get individual ship not included in the boxes go to the fleet builder and make an account. It’s free to sign up (we don’t share any of your details or purchase history with anyone). Once you have made a fleet, you can save it and retrieve it later. You’ll find a little ‘Purchase ships’ button will appear. Press it and we fill your order and post it to you.

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