BattleSea is a remake of a popular paper game of the similar name - battleships. The goal is to destroy enemy's fleet before he destroys ours. Apart from nice graphics and easy control, the added value is the SMS mode which allows you to play with your friend somewhere else. Have fun Commander! If you have never played battleships please see game rules .
Before starting the game all your ships must be deployed onto the game board. You can do it manually by sliding the ship from the "shipyard" in the bottom left corner to the desired place on the board. Whenever you can drop the ship on board you can see green highlight under it. If there is no way to drop the ship the red highlight will be shown on the board. If you drop a ship on the red marked area it will be returned to the shipyard. You can rotate a ship that is already deployed on the board. To perform rotation just double tap it. But remember - if the rotation would cause that the ship occupies the fields where it cannot be placed it will be returned back to the shipyard. However if you double tap the ship and do not release your finger from the screen (after second tap) you will have the ship rotated and you can move it around the board.
If you don't want to slide all the ships onto the board it is just enough to tap the dices icon and all your ships will be deployed randomly. Of course you can change the deployment by changing your ships positions. Important: if your press random deployment but you already have some of your ships on the board then your ships positions will be discarded (all of your ships will be placed randomly, not only those which are not deployed yet).
When you deploy all your ships on the board just tap "Done" button.
To fire you must specify the field which you want to target. To do this just tap the field and you will see the crosshair on it. Alternatively you can use the track ball to move the crosshair. In your turn just roll the trackball and the crosshair will appear on the board.
If you already placed the crosshair on the desired field just tap the "fire" button or press the trackball.
As you will see when the turn ends the boards are swapped to let you take your shot or to show you where your opponent took his. You can also swap the board manually to see, for instance, what is the situation on the other board. To do it just slide one board onto another. It doesn't matter if you slide big board onto small one or vice versa, the boards will be swapped. Important: you must press one board, slide to another and then release your finger. Another way to swap the boards is to tap red "swap button" located near both boards.
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To play the single player mode just select "Single player" from the main menu. Then the deployment phase will be started.
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For now only SMS mode is available for multiplayer game. To play with another human player you must join the game or host the game. Joining means that you have invitation from somebody and you want to accept this invitation. Hosting the game means that you send the invitation to the desired person and that person will have to accept you invitation to play with you. Please be aware that sending and receiving text messages takes some time so this mode may be slower than you would expect.
To join the game there must be an existing invitation. Important: you must have you game launched to accept the invitation. If you receive the invitation when you don't have your BattleSea game lanuched just run it and follow this instruction.
Go to "Multiplayer" and tap "View invitations". You will see the list of received invitations. It may be empty if there are no invitations. If there is any you will see the game id (actually means nothing to you), a number from which the invitation has beed received and an exact date of that invitation. To accept the invitation tap on it and confirm you choice. Please, make sure you are accepting a valid invitation (not the one that is two days old).
When you accept the invitation then it may take a while for receive the confirmation from the other side that you are connected. As soon as you receive the confirmation that deployment phase will start. Important: you and your opponent are humans in this mode. So, be patient if it takes a while for him to deploy his ships or to fire - you know, strategy is important :).
To host the game you must specify who you want to play with. Go to "Multiplayer" and put your opponent's phone number and tap "Send invitation". It may take a while before he accepts it. After your opponent accepts your invitation the deployment phase will begin.
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Options of the game are not very complicated. What you can change is that you don't want to have sounds, what is your desired sounds volume and if the game should use the vibration feature of the device.
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We hope this manual will help you find out how to play our game. If you have any questions please visit our blog and try to find answer there, or if you don't find it just ask your question we will try to help you.
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