Tutorial

LAST UPDATED 7th Oct 2023

BattleTabs — How to Play

Welcome to BattleTabs — the multiplayer battle game inspired by the popular board game Battleships. You can play as an extension, or on the Website.

Starting a Battle

Click on the “Start a New Battle” Button.

Select a Play Style

Pick a play style. Intense matches are played in real-time, while casual matches have long turn time and can last a few days. If you want a private battle between friends, you can select “Battle with Friends”, or “Invite anyone with Link”.

Select a Fleet

Custom Fleets

Custom fleets are available to anyone who has won 3+ battles with 'Solo Warriors'. You can get 2 free Custom Fleet Slots, and 2 more if you join BattleClub. If you are doing a Long battle, you can edit your fleets in the “Select a Fleet” page. Custom fleets allow you to make your own fleets, and put in ships that you have unlocked.

Position Ships

Once you have selected a fleet, you can position your ships by dragging to move or clicking to flip them along a diagonal. When you are ready, click on “I’m Ready” and the battle will start, if the other opponent is also ready.

The Boards

Your board is the one on the top left corner, and your opponent’s board is the one on the lower right corner. The first player to sink all of the other player’s units wins the battle.

When it is your turn, click on a tile to launch a normal attack.

Special Attacks and Abilities

Each ship and monster has special attacks or abilities that can help you with the battle. Hover your mouse cursor over the icons below your avatar, or the ships on your board, to learn more about each ship’s ability.

Countdown (turn times)

Casual Battles

There is a turn time in each match, with casual battles having 1 day (24 hours) for the player to attack. If the player's turn time runs out, they will automatically lose. They will also have 24 hours to choose and place their ships.

Intense Battles

In intense battles, players have 45 seconds to choose their ships and place it, with each player having 25 seconds to attack. Unlike casual battles, you can time out twice before you lose.

Trophy System

In the end of each battle, you will gain trophies, the quantity of which increases and/or decreases depending on your rank. The trophies can unlock badges that you can customize in your profile, and your rank (which ranges from 1-60) determines your avatar border.

Perks of each rank:

  - Bronze: 
      10 trophies gained for a win
      5 trophies gained for a loss
      
    - Unique challenges available at this rank:
      Hit a ship with the Octopus
      Miss entirely with the Sea Monster
      Sink 2 ships with the Kayak in the same turn

  - Silver:
      20 trophies gained for a win
      0 trophies gained for a loss
      New Scene

    - Unique challenges available at this rank:
      Deal damage to 4 tiles in one turn
      Destroy 2 ships in one turn
      Miss all shots with the Catamaran
      Hit every tile with the Raft

  - Gold:
      30 trophies gained for a win
      10 trophies deducted for a loss
      New scene

    - Unique challenges available at this rank:
      Use Longsub in a battle 5 times
      Last Coracle standing

   - Diamond
      30 trophies gained for a win
      30 trophies deducted for a loss
      New scene

Once a player reaches the Diamond league, they are added to the Diamond Dash, a weekly competition.

When the week ends (at approximately 23:08:36 GMT) top 10% of Diamond Dash players will get a diamond, and their avatar border's number will increase by one (I.E. If the top player's border showed 60, the number will go up to 61). All Diamond Dash players' trophies are then reset to 5095.

You cannot go down a rank once you reach Diamond.

Medals

If you reach a certain amount of points you can unlock medals which other players an see and you can flex how cool you are.

- 100 points

Earned 100 battle points

- 500 points

Earned 500 battle points

- 1000 points

Earned 1000 battle points

- Battle clubs member

A member of the best club on earth

- 5k Points

earned 5,000 battle points

- 10k Points

earned 10,000 battle points

- 20k Points

earned 20,000 battle points

- 30k Points

earned 30,000 battle points

- 40k Points

earned 40,000 battle points

- 50k Points

earned 50,000 battle points

- 60k Points

earned 60,000 battle points

- 70k Points

earned 70,000 battle points

- 80k Points

earned 780,000 battle points

- 90k Points

earned 90,000 battle points

- 100k Points

earned 100,000 battle points

- Daily Leaderboard Winner

Has come top of the daily leaderboard

- Tournament Champion

Winner of a BattleTabs Tournament

- Social Butterfly

You joined the discord! Yay!

- Community Guardian

Active member of the community, generally friendly and helpful on Discord

- Community Hero

Shows incredible dedication to the community, super friendly and helpful on Discord.

- Community Mod

One of the good guys, helps the developers with community management on Discord.

- Developer

A developer of the game BattleTabs!

- Community Testeroonie

Helps us stamp out the bugs we try so hard to make.

- Fractal Flake

Holds a Fractal Flake.

- Ship Spotter

Unlocked the blueprints for all campaign ships

- Ship Master

Own/have purchased all the campaign ships (not just rented)

- Voyage of Discovery

Started your journey in the League, reaching the bronze league

- Sterling Sailor

Reached the silver league

- Freshly Gilded

Reached the gold league

- Royal Diamondeer

Reached the diamond league!

- Diamond Dreadnaught

Come top of the weekly Diamond Dash. Quite the achievement!

- Meet your Maker

Oh no! You were defeated by one of the developers of BattleTabs

- Master over Maker

Well done! You defeated one of the developers of BattleTabs

- Social Sailor

Have 20 friends. Aren't you popular!

- OG

You are one of the OG players of BattleTabs

- Big Spender

Spend over 2000 Gems

- Hoarder

You have over 10000 gold. What are you waiting for? Go spend all your booty!

- Fashionista

You have unlocked all of the cosmetics. Now you can be whoever you want!

- Winning Spree

Win streak of 5. You are on a roll!

- Winning Frenzy

Win streak of 10. Look at you go!

- Winning Rampage

Win streak of 20. How are you doing this?

- Unstoppable

Win streak of 50. Do you ever go outside?

- Voyage of Discovery

Finished researching every node on the campaign research tree

- Fleet commander

Unlock all the fleet slots. Time to experiment with fleets!

(Currently unobtainable)

- Season 1 Level 5

Reached level 5 during Season 1

- Season 1 Level 10

Reached level 10 during Season 1

- Season 1 Level 25

Reached level 25 during Season 1

- Season 1 Level 45

Reached level 45 during Season 1

- Season 1 Level 60

Reached level 60 during Season 1