Japanese armoured cruiser squadron.

A big thanks to Phil from Albury NSW for sharing his amazing brushwork.

Click on the image below to hear all about the game!

A big thank you to Cornelius for his write up!

If you are ever in Sydney and you don’t mind a ferry ride over the harbour, we recommend dropping in to see this memorial.

Take the ferry to the Taronga zoo dock, then follow the path off to your right. It will take you around the headland right into the memorial at Bradleys Head.

You can see here on our miniature the part of the ship that was used for the memorial. Here is some details from wiki about the ship and her service:
HMAS Sydney was a Chatham-class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Laid down in 1911 and launched in 1912, the cruiser was commissioned into the RAN in 1913.

During the early stages of World War I, Sydney was involved in supporting the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, and escorting the first ANZAC convoy. On 9 November 1914, she defeated the German cruiser SMS Emden at the Battle of Cocos.

There is another part of this story that exists in a more accessible part of Sydney. A gun from the SMS Emden.

It was a bit of a hike from the Blue Mountains for Aaron and Ben but well worth the time.

If you are looking for stock or to check out the game, here are some places we will be in person. Please drop by and say hi!

Clash of the Titans: Saturday, Apr 11th & 12th 8am till 6pm

Cherrybrook Technology High School, Cherrybrook, NSW

BrisCon: Saturday May 2nd & May 3. 9am till 5pm

Mt Gravatt Showgrounds, Brisbane, Queensland

ShireCon: Saturday the 16th & 17th of May

Sylvania Heights Community and Youth Club, Box Road, Sylvania Heights NSW

Here we have the Birkenhead class light cruiser. We are giving this to players as a participation gift at ShireCon & MOAB this year. It will be available at BrisCon and Victorius as a free gift for purchasing Conqueror at our stall (limited numbers). After MOAB (October) this ship will enter the builder and be available to purchase.

This ship is special because it the 110th year since the battle of Jutland. Young Jack Cornwell received the VC for his actions during the conflict aboard HMS Chester.

Broadsiders can now honour Jack and commemorate Jutland in this small way together. When you put Chester on table, don’t forget to point out why she and Jack are important to your opponent and to your games onlookers. We will tell people when we give out the ship to new players at the above events as well.

If you are running a public Broadside event maybe a big Jutland battle, a demo or a tournament, message us and we can see if we can make this ship available to you to help out.

We will be running a Jutland participation game at ShireCon. If you are in Sydney 16th & 17th May drop in say hi. Otherwise we’ll be tacking plenty of photos to put on FB.

Here is are a few dot points for you about our exciting new era launching soon on Kickstarter.

Things that are the same as Empires of Steel:

• The game is still on 6′ x 4′
• Moving and turning your ships.
• The ships are 1/1500 in scale.
• Some of the ships from Dawn of Steel will appear in EoS. Some as front line ships but mostly as coastal defense battleships ect.

Things that are different:

• All ships are mounted on a medium acrylic base.
• Torpedo boats are three ships to a single medium base. (The torpedo boats from this era are very much smaller than the destroyers in EoS).
• Torpedo boats are all generic squadrons rather than a named, individually mounted ship.
• Ship gun batteries have a rate of fire (Rof) rather than a number of shots that equal the number of the ship’s guns.
• Dawn of Steel has a different ground scale (the distance between your ships will look the same as EoS but it is in fact far less).
• There are no ‘Light guns’ or ‘Directed guns’ in Dawn of Steel (DoS)
• The game uses d10 or 2xd10 (EoS is d6 or 2xd6)
• Dawn of Steel era is 1894 – 1906. (EoS is 1906-1918)
• Ship cards will be visually different to EoS to avoid confusion.

More information will be available as we get closer the the KS launch. At this stage we are aiming for a date in mid to late April to start the funding period.

In the mean time please enjoy some photos from our play-testers!

At last we have a shop! Thanks for your patience Broasiders! You are now able to shop online!

https://broadside-empires-of-steel.square.site

New year, new book. Two new missions. Please enjoy!

Also you will be happy know the points update is complete for the year. We hope you like the new game balance. Destroyers are far more dangerous this year. You have been warned!

The card update is not far from complete. We will be done here in time to start promoting the new Broadside period: Dawn of Steel.

Stay safe and enjoy your gaming time! See you at Cancon 26′!

Imperial German navy & Royal navy Battleship & Battlecruiser fleet boxes. Conqueror starter boxes!