Beschreibung
Extended Broadside is like a classic Battleships game on steroids. Instead of having two players placing their hidden fleets on a 10X10 grid, this one is played by four players on a huge (36" across) octagonal board in which each player has a five-sided slice of 160 numbered squares.

The board, vertical dividers, posts and spacers are all of wood. The ships are gorgeous metal and wood miniatures, with carriers, battleships, cruisers and liners about 6" long, and destroyers and submarines about 4". Each player gets two of the large ships and one of the small ones, and may place them either orthogonally (covering 5 and 4 spaces respectively) or diagonally (covering only 4 and 3 spaces).

Each player also has an island (same size as a destroyer), two minefields and an airplane. Before normal shooting starts, each player calls out the location of his island, and any island intersecting with any other player's ship(s) cause a grounding equal to a single hit, and the placing player gets a free additional shot. Then each player calls out the location of each one-space minefield: any ship on any of these squares is sunk instantly. These spaces are marked on all boards as hazards and are permanently blocked. Finally, each player gets a shot with a plane, which requires only one additional hit of any kind to sink a ship (an aerial hit on a grounded ship would sink it).

Finally the regular shooting begins. Each player calls out the number of a space, and hits any ship on that space on all other players' boards. A hit grants another shot. Once all spaces occupied by a ship are hit, it sinks and is removed from play. Players may also choose to use a more powerful air or mine attack, but lose their next one or two turns for doing so. Finally, unlike any traditional game of this type, this game allows a player to move a ship to a new location instead of shooting.

The game appears to have been hand-crafted, since the ships are all of slightly different sizes with a unique storage insert for each in the box. The only indication of a publisher is a coat of arms with a Greek motto on the wooden box. The use of a carrier with monoplanes suggests that it was made in the mid-1930s, shortly after the traditional Battleships game appeared under multiple titles including Broadside.

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