Description

T - Boats Challenge
NEW BATTLESHIP!

It is a wooden board game for all ages based on strategy: there is no luck, only tactics!

COMPONENTS: 1 wooden game board, 8 wooden ship-pawns in 2 colours

INSTRUCTIONS:

Goal: Eliminate all the rival sheeps from the board.

Preparation: Arrange all the ships on the board on the starting position (1). Pick the colours. The yellow fleet always starts.

How to move the ships: The game board is composed by 81 spots. One ship must always fill three spots. Play in turns. The player shall move one ship making a 90° rotation in any direction pivoting on one of the three spots filled by the ship or shift it of one spot lengthways. (2) The ship can only fill free spots without crossing other ships. It is allowed to pass over a ship if the ending spots are free. (3) If the player touches a ship is obliged to make a move.
How to eliminate the rival ships: The goal of your moves is to build a "T" across one enemy ship by placing one ship perpendiculalry and centerd to the rival one building a "T" (4). In this way the rival ship must be taken from the board. If you build a "T" unintentionally and don't see it, the other player is allowed not to tell and to eliminate your ship at the next turn without making any other move. If with one move you manage to make more "Ts" you can remove all the involved ships.

End of the game: If a player can eliminate all the rival ships or prevent them from moving further, he wins the game. If a player gives up the other one wins. The game shall be considered even is both players cannot move further.