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 turn you will give your ships orders to enhance each ships actions for the turn. 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 turns. 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.

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 ‘Launch Pack’

This pack contains the rule book, the games card decks and the Broadside turning tool. Inside you will find a cardboard page containing tokens and two ships. This pack will let you and a shipmate play a game of BS:EoS right out of the bag.

Each player requires a launch pack to play a full size game of Broadside.

The ‘Acrylic Token Set’

Broadside: Empires of Steel is a quick game to play considering you and your opponent will each command a fleet of ships from the era of the Dreadnought. 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 token replace the cardboard ones found in your lunch pack. 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.

600 point Fleet boxes

If you are new to the game and would like to get a great start to collecting a navy, these 600 point fleet boxes are the way to go.

Containing around 7 ships each and weighing in at approximately 600 points, each box will give you a solid fleet ready to deploy without addition.

There are currently 4 boxes available: Royal Navy, German Navy, Austro-Hungarian Navy and Japanese Navy. Each box contains the unpainted and assembled ship miniatures, the transparent acrylic bases for each ship and a name sticker for each ship.