Tutorial

## 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.

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LAST UPDATED 8th Oct 2021

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## 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

### Standard Fleets

You can select pre-made fleets from the Standard Fleets. They need you to win games with Standard Fleets to unlock them.

### Battle Club

Battle Club fleets require you to have the Battle Club membership. You can get Battle Club by buying it.

### 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.

## Points System

In the end of each battle, you will gain points. The points can unlock badges that you can customize in your profile. The points are awarded on if you won or lost the battle. If you win a battle, you get 6 points. If you lose, you get 1 point. Points are also used in a daily leaderboard.

## 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

- **Daily Leaderboard Winner**

Has come top of the daily leaderboard

- **Tournament Champion**

Winner of a BattleTabs Tournament

- **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.