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Battleship
What is Battleship?

Battleship is a classic strategy board game where players take turns guessing the locations of each other's ships on a grid. The objective is to sink all of the opponent's ships before they sink yours. The game has gained renewed popularity in recent years, especially among families and young adults.

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How much search volume does it get?
Google searches
74K/mo
Who is interested in this?
Gender
Male
53%
Female
39%
Unspecified
8%
Age
18-24
38%
25-34
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35-44
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Is Battleship trending?

Battleship declining with a month-over-month change of -0.26% over the past 5 years, though it still receives approximately 74,000 monthly searches.


Why is Battleship trending?

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Nostalgic Appeal
Many players grew up playing Battleship, and its return to popularity taps into a sense of nostalgia, making it a favored choice for family game nights.
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Simple Rules
The straightforward rules make Battleship accessible to players of all ages, allowing families and friends to enjoy the game without needing extensive knowledge or strategy.
3
Social Interaction
Battleship encourages face-to-face interaction, making it a great option for social gatherings and fostering connections among players.
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Digital Adaptations
The game has been adapted into various digital formats, including mobile apps and online versions, making it more accessible to a tech-savvy audience.
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Strategic Thinking
Battleship promotes critical thinking and strategy, appealing to those who enjoy games that require planning and foresight.

What are people saying?

47 threads
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Discussions about battleships are varied, covering topics from historical battleships, their role in military strategy, to cultural references in media. Participants express both nostalgia and frustration regarding battleship performance in games and historical contexts.
Historical Significance
Many discussions reference the historical impact and legacy of battleships, particularly during World War II.
Gaming Experiences
Users share their experiences and frustrations with battleship gameplay mechanics in various naval games.
Cultural References
Battleships are discussed in the context of movies and TV shows, highlighting their portrayal in popular culture.
Military Strategy
The role of battleships in modern military strategy and their relevance in contemporary discussions about defense.
Technical Specifications
Discussions include the technical aspects and specifications of various battleship models, both historical and fictional.
Common questions
  • What are the best battleship strategies in naval games?
  • How did battleships influence naval warfare during WWII?
  • What are the most famous battleships in history?
  • How do battleship mechanics differ across various games?
  • What cultural impact have battleships had in media?
Pain points
  • Frustration with the performance of battleships in games.
  • Concerns about the relevance of battleships in modern military contexts.
  • Difficulty in finding accurate historical information about battleships.
  • Discussions about the balance of power in naval games favoring other ship types.
  • Nostalgia for the era of traditional battleships contrasted with modern naval technology.
r/okbuddycinephile
Just rewatched Battleship for the 47th time and Rihanna is carrying this film harder than the entire US Navy. Change my mind.
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adj_noun_digit · Apr 6, 2026
r/helldivers2
Just putting into perspective how powerful our Super Destroyers are; 380mm was the caliber of the main guns on battleships such as HMS Warspite and the Bismarck.
submitted by /u/SPECTREagent700 to r/helldivers2 [link] [comments]
SPECTREagent700 · Feb 26, 2026
r/movies
I re-watched Battleship (2012) yesterday. I still think it is an enjoyable popcorn movie
The rating in IMDb is 5.8/10. Viewer rating is a bit extreme on both sides. Half is “just watch with low expectations and don’t question anything, then it is a very enjoyable movie to watch - same level as Armageddon, and better than most Transfomer movies” The other half is “don’t waste your time, what a horrible movie that doesn’t make sense” Anyway, I always have this guilty pleasure of disaster/fight the monsters and save the world types of movie. I love Pacific Rim 1 (I know it mainly it’s because it has Guillermo del Toro as the director), however 2012 is below my limit. Battleship is … non stop action. Hence it doesn’t give you much time to question the plot. The alien is not super powerful, which kind of a fresh air (?). In fact, the alien is not really the bad guy. At least they have no intention to kill living beings, if they don’t have intention to kill first. Cast is … ok. Nice to see Alexander Skarsgård, who I had no idea who he was in my last watch (at least 7 years ago). I don’t listen Rihanna’s songs so her acting doesn’t bother me. And I do like they used real life veterans as actor / extra. It was a not bad movie to kill time and shutdown my brain in a summer afternoon. Thank you for reading my confession. submitted by /u/TheC9 to r/movies [link] [comments]
TheC9 · Jan 25, 2026
r/todayilearned
TIL that a functional space battleship was proposed alongside the Project Orion nuclear pulse drive; which was cancelled not because it wasn't possible, but because it was so heavily armed it terrified President Kennedy who wanted it cancelled out of fears of a Cold War escalation
submitted by /u/ZipZopZoppityHop to r/todayilearned [link] [comments]
ZipZopZoppityHop · Jan 21, 2026
r/Hip_hop_that_u_need
Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Fleet' battleships named after himself. Damn…
submitted by /u/InspectorConfident73 to r/Hip_hop_that_u_need [link] [comments]
InspectorConfident73 · Dec 24, 2025
r/UnderReportedNews
Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Fleet' battleships named after himself. Damn…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2084nq2npjo.amp Trump has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed Navy "battleships" named after himself, as part of a revamped "Golden Fleet". Construction on the Trump-class USS Defiant ship, which will be equipped to carry an array of weapons, is expected to begin soon, with Trump saying the first vessels will be operational in two-and-a-half years. The announcement is part of a larger planned expansion of the US Navy by President Trump in both manned and unmanned vessels, including larger missile-armed warships and smaller vessels. Officials have warned that the US currently lags behind China in both shipbuilding capacity and total output. Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida alongside defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan on Monday, Trump said he approved the construction of two new battleships to start, with a plan to build up to 25. For more click on the bbc link submitted by /u/Top_Needleworker6385 to r/UnderReportedNews [link] [comments]
Top_Needleworker6385 · Dec 24, 2025
All threads (47)
Thread Source Author Date
RE:Iran accuses US blockade of Hormuz Straits as illegal act of piracy!
... easily defensible. The two Americans battleship got warning by Iran and...
forums.hardwarezone.com.sg coyote Apr 13, 2026
RE:Crowbcat video - RE4 is timeless, RE4 Remake is a product of its time
... they didn't bring back the battleship level from OG Separate Ways...
www.resetera.com Aurc Apr 13, 2026
Star trek hiawatha
.../sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2632345193&searchtext=yamato+battleship+star+trek Insisting on the...
steamcommunity.com CJM Apr 13, 2026
RE:Of Wort and Men.
...? Maybe try design a new battleship? Or a virus that causes...
forums.spacebattles.com Jubjub3000 Apr 13, 2026
RE:Shop activities for the kids during the brutal cold of winter
... incorporate games that we enjoyed. Battleship is one I can remember...
www.garagejournal.com Voi Apr 13, 2026
New Player here!
... is a good all-round bog-standard battleship line. They get more health... are hybrids. They have regular battleship heals, and their hangars can...
steamcommunity.com Ace42 Apr 13, 2026
Frigate morphed into battleship
So I made a custom beam frigate using the first eleirium (whowever you spell it) lasers. I can build it and it costs what it should...BUT when it is built it spawns as a battleship carrying 118 spcace of gear on a hull with 80 and I have not researched the gear it has.(gluon guns etc)...How can i not be tempted to have huge armada of cheap mega powerful ships...Anyone else had this?
steamcommunity.com TotalNooB Apr 13, 2026
RE:Atomic Robo feats thread
Atomic Robo - v7ch4 Page 3 The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy. www.atomic-robo.com Atomic Robo - v7ch4 Page 19 The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy. www.atomic-robo.com -Submersible Chokaiten battleship carrier can also fly thanks to its electro-gravity driveinspired by Tesla's work
forums.spacebattles.com Strigoi Grey Apr 13, 2026
Turn off deformation?
...". If I was flying a battleship rather than a corvette, I'd...
steamcommunity.com Captain Canard Apr 13, 2026
9.0 and VRO
... is like if an Owia battleship 16 inches gun range was...
steamcommunity.com hurepoix Apr 13, 2026
RE:Namco X Capcom is wild game that I would love to see finally get a official western release.
..., Baxinger, Super Robot Wars, Space Battleship Nadesico, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Macross...
www.resetera.com L Thammy Apr 13, 2026
RE:US to close Strait of Hormuz
Quote: Originally Posted by FidlerEd It's a blockade to block the blockade that's blocking the Strait that wasn't blocked before being blocked due to the war of choice launched by Trump. and ex45 has had to block the implementation of the blockade... the battleship wasn't at B7 after all... four hours, and counting?
www.rcgroups.com Crumple Apr 13, 2026
i dont have any armor for my super heavy battleship
when i try to design a super heavy battleship i dont have any armor to put on the design, while i researched litteraly every thing in the game, i didnt find any solution or mod for it
steamcommunity.com VitalityMachou Apr 13, 2026
RE:Q Research General #29870: Third Time's the Charm Edition
File: b76c59cb70d7dbd⋯.jpg (187.7 KB,842x632,421:316,DEEP_SIX.jpg) >>24493586 NO CHECKMATE IN BATTLESHIP
8kun.top Anonymous Apr 13, 2026
Re: Iran
... States Navy decommissioned its last battleship about 15 years ago (and...
forum.mrmoneymustache.com LennStar Apr 13, 2026
DLC is ridiculous as a returning player
... 50+ planet empire with 100K+ battleship fleets literally on their doorstep...
steamcommunity.com Commander359 Apr 12, 2026
Torpedo Spamming ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Some boats are made for staying hidden and torping skrubs. Japaneese DD line for example, not exactly a gun boat. If you don't like playing like that, that's okey, pick a battleship cruiser or gunboat. It's pretty satifying when you perfectly predict where someone will be in 40 seconds and snipe them with a group of torps from 8km away.
steamcommunity.com Ben Machine Apr 12, 2026
RE:No Life Kid [Hellsing Ultimate (Abridged?)/Twilight]
... enough subtext to sink a battleship. Zander slid his flip-phone into...
forums.spacebattles.com ZFighter18 Apr 12, 2026
RE:Abyssal Rose
...survivability and firepower of a Battleship, the detection abilities of Cruiser...it finished. An Ultra-Fast Battleship. The Abyss must have wanted ... hadn't heard of a battleship until she'd gone to Beacon. ...planes to a lone Battleship. It merged into a strange ...How copy?" "Loud and clear," Battleship New Jersey said, shaking herself ... dreadnought. Possibly even a battleship." Jersey nodded, focusing on her ...
forums.spacebattles.com DisgruntledJaeger Apr 12, 2026
RE:Asteria Squadron
.... Which makes sense, this entire battleship is state of the art...
forums.spacebattles.com Cathrix Apr 12, 2026
RE:Let's face it: there's no good reason to deny the construction of the ballroom.
... the status of museum. The battleship Massachusetts is also historical and ...
www.usmessageboard.com justoffal Apr 12, 2026
New Lava Lamp
One in the Prime wreck - blocked by destructible rock - by the three key lock to palace (north of the battleship wreck in the desert)
steamcommunity.com Percale Apr 12, 2026
RE:Mirrorsmoke Company (Battletech/Lancer RPG SI)
ChameleonCircuit said: Hopefully that means Logan himself will take to the field, I really want to see the Combine reaction to (hopefully) a mech made of angry bees. Nah. I want the "Vault" to take to the skies. Logan drives not a mech. He drives a battleship.
forums.spacebattles.com Mashadarof402 Apr 12, 2026
Oh, cool
Now trump wants to play, "you sunk my Battleship" JFC. How far does this shit stain have to go before they will impeach him?
www.democraticunderground.com mercuryblues Apr 12, 2026
A Couple of Scots (getting on a bit) in Hawaii - Trip Report
... naval men chose the sunken battleship as their final resting place... to clearly see the sunken battleship itself below the Memorial and...
www.tripadvisor.com Scotlandmac Apr 12, 2026
Just rewatched Battleship for the 47th time and Rihanna is carrying this film harder than the entire US Navy. Change my mind.
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reddit.com adj_noun_digit Apr 6, 2026
Just putting into perspective how powerful our Super Destroyers are; 380mm was the caliber of the main guns on battleships such as HMS Warspite and the Bismarck.
submitted by /u/SPECTREagent700 to r/helldivers2 [link] [comments]
reddit.com SPECTREagent700 Feb 26, 2026
I re-watched Battleship (2012) yesterday. I still think it is an enjoyable popcorn movie
The rating in IMDb is 5.8/10. Viewer rating is a bit extreme on both sides. Half is “just watch with low expectations and don’t question anything, then it is a very enjoyable movie to watch - same level as Armageddon, and better than most Transfomer movies” The other half is “don’t waste your time, what a horrible movie that doesn’t make sense” Anyway, I always have this guilty pleasure of disaster/fight the monsters and save the world types of movie. I love Pacific Rim 1 (I know it mainly it’s because it has Guillermo del Toro as the director), however 2012 is below my limit. Battleship is … non stop action. Hence it doesn’t give you much time to question the plot. The alien is not super powerful, which kind of a fresh air (?). In fact, the alien is not really the bad guy. At least they have no intention to kill living beings, if they don’t have intention to kill first. Cast is … ok. Nice to see Alexander Skarsgård, who I had no idea who he was in my last watch (at least 7 years ago). I don’t listen Rihanna’s songs so her acting doesn’t bother me. And I do like they used real life veterans as actor / extra. It was a not bad movie to kill time and shutdown my brain in a summer afternoon. Thank you for reading my confession. submitted by /u/TheC9 to r/movies [link] [comments]
reddit.com TheC9 Jan 25, 2026
TIL that a functional space battleship was proposed alongside the Project Orion nuclear pulse drive; which was cancelled not because it wasn't possible, but because it was so heavily armed it terrified President Kennedy who wanted it cancelled out of fears of a Cold War escalation
submitted by /u/ZipZopZoppityHop to r/todayilearned [link] [comments]
reddit.com ZipZopZoppityHop Jan 21, 2026
Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Fleet' battleships named after himself. Damn…
submitted by /u/InspectorConfident73 to r/Hip_hop_that_u_need [link] [comments]
reddit.com InspectorConfident73 Dec 24, 2025
Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Fleet' battleships named after himself. Damn…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2084nq2npjo.amp Trump has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed Navy "battleships" named after himself, as part of a revamped "Golden Fleet". Construction on the Trump-class USS Defiant ship, which will be equipped to carry an array of weapons, is expected to begin soon, with Trump saying the first vessels will be operational in two-and-a-half years. The announcement is part of a larger planned expansion of the US Navy by President Trump in both manned and unmanned vessels, including larger missile-armed warships and smaller vessels. Officials have warned that the US currently lags behind China in both shipbuilding capacity and total output. Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida alongside defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan on Monday, Trump said he approved the construction of two new battleships to start, with a plan to build up to 25. For more click on the bbc link submitted by /u/Top_Needleworker6385 to r/UnderReportedNews [link] [comments]
reddit.com Top_Needleworker6385 Dec 24, 2025
Trump class battleship.what do you think? [2560X1271]
submitted by /u/Battlefleet_Sol to r/MilitaryPorn [link] [comments]
reddit.com Battlefleet_Sol Dec 23, 2025
President unveils new ‘Trump class’ fleet of battleships | CNN Politics
How big is this guy’s ego? submitted by /u/halazos to r/facepalm [link] [comments]
reddit.com halazos Dec 23, 2025
Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe'
submitted by /u/boforiamanfo to r/politics [link] [comments]
reddit.com boforiamanfo Dec 23, 2025
Trump: U.S. Building World's Largest Battleships for 'Golden Fleet'
submitted by /u/According-Activity87 to r/Conservative [link] [comments]
reddit.com According-Activity87 Dec 23, 2025
President Trump announces building of "Golden Fleet" battleships for the U.S. Navy: “We are calling it the Golden Fleet that we are building for the U.S Navy. I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand-new, very large, the largest we've ever built, battleships.”
submitted by /u/ControlCAD to r/videos [link] [comments]
reddit.com ControlCAD Dec 23, 2025
Corvette Battleship: The Flesh that Devours
Made a larger corvette ship variant of my bike build “The Flesh that Warps”. * Hellcycle Hangar *Warp Portal *Captains quarters accessible from the short range teleport in hangar submitted by /u/Business-Ad7834 to r/NoMansSkyTheGame [link] [comments]
reddit.com Business-Ad7834 Oct 24, 2025
The battleship USS Iowa unleashing her 16-inch guns during exercises off Puerto Rico, 1984
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reddit.com Anuloxisz Oct 3, 2025
Who needs artillery when you got an entire battleship
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reddit.com Hyperion253 May 14, 2025
Battleship (2012) is AWESOME. Yeah, I said it. The one-liners are amazing, the boat action scenes rule, and the climax slaps HARD. If you can't get into a film that has navy veterans fixing a battleship to AC DC, there's something wrong with you. "Let's drop some lead on those mother... FIRE!!!!".
submitted by /u/Emotional-Chipmunk12 to r/scifi [link] [comments]
reddit.com Emotional-Chipmunk12 May 8, 2025
Played Battleship with my 7 year old son
He sunk all my ships without me getting 1 hit, so I played on to find where his were. He hid them in his pocket. submitted by /u/gingerninja78 to r/mildlyinfuriating [link] [comments]
reddit.com gingerninja78 Apr 5, 2025
found more modern style battleships (will post source in a comment)
submitted by /u/Mightyeagle2091 to r/ImaginaryWarships [link] [comments]
reddit.com Mightyeagle2091 Nov 20, 2024
TIL the US Navy had no idea Cher would be wearing a racy outfit when they agreed to let her film “If I Could Turn Back Time” on the battleship *Missouri*. They didn’t see her now-iconic fishnet bodysuit until filming started. The crew’s crazy reaction is genuine.
submitted by /u/UF1977 to r/todayilearned [link] [comments]
reddit.com UF1977 Nov 17, 2024
Virgin vs Chad battleships
submitted by /u/I_Despise_This_name to r/HistoryMemes [link] [comments]
reddit.com I_Despise_This_name Aug 7, 2024
WWII Battleship size comparison [1750x1875]
submitted by /u/cellblock73 to r/WarshipPorn [link] [comments]
reddit.com cellblock73 Mar 21, 2023
Beware of Human Battleships
Invading Earth turned out to be a bad idea. We had thought that it was going to be a simple take over. With its inhabitants still recovering from a recent “World War”, and with only one of its nations possessing atomic weaponry, we thought that we could easily subdue the Humans. At first it actually did look like we would pacify the planet easily. Landing on the continent of Europe, which had been devastated by their recent World War, the resistance we received was fierce, but lacking the firepower to stop us. Their primitive explosive propelled kinetic rounds merely bounced off of our armored vehicles, while our plasma weaponry melted holes in theirs. Their soldiers, lacking in personal body armor, were nothing more than easy pickings for our infantry, whose body armor easily absorbed the impact of their weak gunpowder propelled bullets. Meanwhile, in the skies, their slow aircraft proved to be easy targets for our atmospheric fighters. Within the first week of our invasion the majority of Europe had been ours, as we split the Human forces in the middle, forcing one to retreat to the east, while the other went west. Our push towards the east met continuous success over the next few weeks, as we drove back the armies of the nation known as the Soviet Union. Despite their overwhelming numbers, their vehicles and soldiers were easily destroyed and cut down by our weapons. Intelligence reports estimated that their losses nearly reached a million Humans dead, while our own casualties were only a few thousand. Overrunning their cities and keeping their armies on the run, we were able to capture vast areas of their land and conquer the entirety of the Soviet Union four months after we landed. At the western front, our push there was also met with success at the start, as we drove back the Human armies from the nations known as the United States of America, the British Empire, and the French Republic. Like in the east, we destroyed large portions of their army and forced the Humans to retreat farther and farther west. However, our push at that front eventually met unexpected resistance as we reached the coastline. I must now point out that oceans and seas were a strange thing to us. Back at our home planet we only had lakes and rivers. Even then, our lakes were nothing more than small bodies of water, where one could see the other side by simply standing at the shoreline. On Earth, however, the bodies of water were huge and vast. Orbital observation had shown us that Earth was mainly covered in water. However, we did not believe this would hamper our invasion, seeing that the Humans lived on land. At most we believed the oceans and seas would just make the second phase of our invasion a bit more complicated, since our force at Europe had to be lifted up to orbit, before being dropped down again to the planet’s surface, this time at the American continent. Due to our homeplanet’s lack of large bodies of water, our race was only able to build shallow water vessels, not the deep water vessels needed to cross Earth’s oceans. Because of this we knew we had to rely on our space shuttles to cross the oceans and seas of Earth. What we did not realize at the time was that Humans had perfected the art of building watercraft. Most importantly, they had perfected warfare on it. Yes, we did see orbital images of their ships. The problem was, we did not take them seriously at the time. We thought that the large steel vessels were mainly used for transportation. When we saw that some of these vessels had tubes that looked like larger versions of their land artillery, we shrugged it off and thought that they too would be inferior weaponry. Our ignorance towards their watercraft eventually became a big mistake. As our forces moved west and cornered the Human armies along the coast of the French Republic’s homeland, the ship-borne artillery that we had so easily dismissed began lunging large high explosive rounds onto our advancing columns. Catching us by surprise, these large caliber rounds destroyed whole formations of soldiers and vehicles. The sight of mangled soldiers and flipped armored vehicles soon became a common sight at positions within the Human ship’s range. These ships, we would later learn, were called “Battleships”, and they were designed by the Humans to fight other large watercraft. The artillery on each ship varied in caliber, but it seemed that the most common bore for the main pieces was fourteen inches in diameter. Designed to fire thousand pound rounds at distances beyond the horizon, the original purpose of these battleships was to sink other battleships. However, due to its long range, they were also capable of providing heavy artillery fire for soldiers near the shore. Positioning their battleships close to the shore, these ships would wait for coordinates from observers at the frontline, before calculating the proper firing solution to ensure their rounds hit the designated area marked by the observer. Once they fired their massive artillery pieces there was no stopping the heavy rounds from landing and destroying everything near the impact zone. The battleship soon became the Human’s best weapon at countering us. Suddenly realizing the danger these battleships posed, our forces soon began planning how to counter and eliminate them. At first we tried using counter-battery fire, but we quickly learned that this was ineffective, as the battleships would simply move away from the position it had fired its volley from. By the time we had calculated their positions and fired our artillery, the battleship had already left and our plasma rounds fell harmlessly onto the water. Our second plan at eliminating the battleships was through the use of our atmospheric fighters. Capable of flying high and beyond their anti-aircraft artillery, the atmospheric fighters could drop precision guided bombs and directly hit the large ships. However, we soon learnt that battleships were robust vessels. Since the Humans expected that battleships would fight against hostile battleships, they made sure to protect the vessels with thick layers of armor. Although this did not make them impregnable from our bombs, it did make them difficult to destroy. Due to our reliance on orbital bombardment when eliminating heavily fortified enemy positions, we did not think it was necessary to bring deep penetration bombs for our atmospheric fighters to use, since our orbital drop munitions did the job well enough. However, this meant that the bombs our atmospheric fighters carried were light high explosive munitions only, not armor piercing. Such munitions only brought minor damage to the battleships and only during lucky instances were we able to severely disable them. Meanwhile, attempts at dropping orbital munitions on the battleships were also ineffective, since a moving target was hard to hit from orbit. Because of our inability to destroy the battleships that guarded the Human’s last hold on the coast of France, we ended up having a stalemate on the western front. However, during this lull in the war of movement, the Humans managed to conduct an operation that would eventually turn the war in their favor. At one of the villages that had been heavily bombarded by their battleships, a Human task force managed to sneak in and recover some of our flipped armored vehicles and the damaged weaponry and equipment left by our mangled soldiers. Normally we would have recovered such equipment ourselves, however, the constant heavy artillery bombardment on the roads that led to the village prevented our recovery vehicles from getting close. It was reported that the Humans managed to get two heavily damaged plasma field gun armed armored vehicles, a single lightly damaged armored personnel carrier, twenty plasma rifles, thirteen armored vests, four anti-armored vehicle guided missiles, with launchers, and two guided anti-aerial vehicle guided missiles, with launchers. It was a small bounty and we doubted that the Humans would be able to reuse such damaged equipment. After the Humans took our abandoned equipment, they then surprised us by slowly pulling out their armies from the western front. Placing them on transport vessels and redeploying them to the island homeland of the British Empire, the Humans on the western front evacuated their troops and abandoned their holdings along the coast of France. Normally we would have taken advantage of such a retreat, knowing that their front would be weak as they pulled back soldiers from the defenses. However, the artillery fire from the battleships prevented us from exploiting their vulnerable state. The next months after their withdrawal became another stalemate, with us being unable to land on the British homeland, while the Humans were unable to do the same against our positions in mainland Europe. Because of this, we decided to finish our conquest of the Soviet Union, before planning for the execution of the second phase of the invasion. After careful planning and preparation, we believed that we could simply leave a small force to guard Europe against any counter offensives from the Human armies at the British homeland, while the rest of the army was sent out to conduct the invasion of the American continent. Because of this, we spent the next months consolidating our holdings, while resting and reorganizing our forces for the next phase of the invasion. Fifteen months after we first landed in Europe, our forces began the invasion of the American continent. Landing deep into the United States’ homeland, we hoped to place our forces as far as possible from the range of their deadly battleships. However, to our shock, the landing did not go as planned. Landing near the city of St. Louis, the first wave of our force were surprised to encounter enemy fire, as they descended and entered the atmosphere. The landing shuttles were forced to take evasive maneuvers, as dozens of missiles flew up from the surface and guided their way towards each vehicle. This had not been expected, as such weaponry was vastly different from what we had encountered when our forces first landed fifteen months ago. Due to these missiles, we had lost eighteen out of the one hundred landing shuttles that took part in the first wave. However, the missiles were not the only surprise that awaited us that day, as our forces soon encountered Human ground forces. Expecting to fight the same weak armored vehicles and vulnerable infantry, our soldiers were shocked to see streaks of plasma fire erupting from position ahead of them. At first some of our units thought that they were encountering friendly fire. However, it soon dawned on our soldiers that the Humans were now using plasma rifles and field guns. Now engaging an enemy with equal weaponry, our soldiers struggled to advance as they began to take on heavy casualties. As the fighting continued, and as Human resistance stiffened due to the arrival of reinforcements, our forces were then made aware that the Humans were not only using plasma weapons, but they also had improved armored vehicles that our own weaponry had difficulty disabling. Our anti-armored vehicle guided missiles, which had the ability to penetrate the armor of our own armored vehicles, were unable to do so against the Human armored vehicles. Reports from survivors of the battle later stated that the Humans seemed to have added some sort of explosive armor on their tanks that reduced the damage brought on by our missiles. When it became clear that the landing zone was not clear, we were forced to make the devastating decision of withholding the subsequent waves. Because of this, the first wave that was already on the ground was left alone without support and eventually killed or captured. Only a few hundred wounded, who were placed on shuttles conducting casualty evacuation operations, managed to evade such a fate. It soon became clear to us what had happened. The weapons stolen all those months ago had been studied and replicated by the Humans. We were first amazed at how fast they were able to copy our equipment and place their version into full production. However, we then felt scared and wondered how many such weapons the Humans possessed at that time. Was it only the armies of the United States that were equipped with them? Or were the other armies also armed with the new equipment? It didn’t take long for us to know the answer. Six months after the failed invasion of St. Louis, our occupation forces garrisoning the conquered homeland of the Soviet Union began encountering uprisings. It was then reported that the Humans who had risen to fight the occupation force were armed with the same plasma rifles used by the soldiers of the United States. We would later learn that the Humans had made use of cargo ships to transport the weapons through a sea that we thought was too cold for watercraft to safely sail on. Once more our underestimation of the power of watercraft had resulted in disaster. The next year had our forces on the defensive, as we fortified our gains in Europe, while trying to subdue the rebels of the conquered Soviet Union. However, the fight in the east was a losing battle. Although only equipped with plasma rifles, the number of Humans they had slowly thinned our garrison until we were forced to withdraw and reunite them with the main force in Europe. After the loss of the conquered territory of the Soviet Union, our forces began to prepare for the multi-front attack that was expected to come. For five months we waited and prepared, slowly thinking that what we had done was more than adequate to fight off what the Humans had for us. However, despite our preparations, the resulting Human offensive was beyond that of which we imagined. They first attacked us in the east, with the reestablished Soviet Union attacking our defensive line in Poland. Although the Humans in this front were still mainly equipped with just plasma rifles, they were now beginning to also field a small number of armored vehicles equipped with plasma field guns. However, their tactics were still primitive, as they rushed in large waves without proper coordination. Because of this, we were able to hold them off for a month. Meanwhile, in the west, the combined forces of the United States, Great Britain, and France concentrated on an assault on the coast of France. Once more, the battleships played a key role for the Humans. However, these battleships were no longer the same vessels that we had first fought three years ago. Equipped with large caliber plasma artillery, their cannons were much more powerful and had longer range than the ones they had used previously. Because of this, they nearly annihilated the defenses that we built along the coastline. After the battleship had done their job, the main invasion force of armored vehicles and infantry landed. Engaging our weakened forces, we were forced to fall back from the coast, as the plasma rounds the battleships hurled bombarded our forces all along the way. Realizing that we were being pushed hard on two fronts, and knowing that we stood no chance against the Human offensive, we slowly began to withdraw our forces deeper and deeper into central Europe, where we hoped to start evacuating them back to the orbiting fleet around Earth. What followed next was a month of desperate fighting, as our frontlines slowly shrunk while we evacuated more and more soldiers and equipment. Despite the intense Human efforts, we were somehow holding the line and keeping our evacuation zone clear from the new missile armed jet fighter aircraft the Humans were beginning to deploy in large numbers. However, what the Humans threw at us next caught us by surprise once more. I guess it was foolish of us to think that the Humans could not have thought of something else new for this war. From orbit we detected an atomic explosion. This was followed by another, and another, and another. We found these explosions odd, as they seemed to be occurring at the ocean the Humans called the “Pacific”. Keeping track of these atomic explosions, we watched as it got higher and higher into the air. As the atomic explosions got closer to space, one of our starships focused its optical equipment at the bursts of atomic explosions and saw something that frightened us all. Riding a stream of atomic fire was a large steel battleship. No, it did not look like the waterborne vessels the Humans successfully fought us with, but there was no doubt in my mind that what I saw was a battleship. Shaped like one of those primitive bullets the Humans had previously used, the battleship had some kind of pusher plate on its stern, which absorbed the atomic explosions from the bombs it dropped. Through this very barbaric method, the battleship managed to propel itself into orbit. As it exited the atmosphere and faced towards our fleet of starships, various large panels began to open from its hull to reveal turrets similar to the ones the waterborne battleships had. At that moment, as imminent doom got closer and closer, the order to jump into hyperspace was given. Without hesitation, without even thinking of the soldiers that were still on the surface and fighting a desperate battle in Europe, me and the other starship commanders immediately got our spacecraft away from danger. However, not all of us made it out of the Human’s system. We originally had a hundred starships with us, but after exiting hyperspace it was noted that there were only ninety-eight starships who were with the fleet. We aren’t sure what happened to the missing two, but it is speculated by many that they got hit and were disabled by the approaching Human battleship. That thought scares me the most. Those two starships contained powerful weaponry and advanced hyperspace drives. Not only that, its computers had star charts that pointed out every star system occupied by our race. If the Humans managed to recover these things, then there is no telling what they might do. Invading Earth was a mistake, because now we have angered the Humans. If anyone in the galactic community has any pity for us, please help my race, because I don’t believe we would survive if the Humans come. - Captain Ad’ Havin, Commander of the transport starship Light Bringer during the invasion of Earth. submitted by /u/TheDarkVoid79 to r/HFY [link] [comments]
reddit.com TheDarkVoid79 May 28, 2022
Battleships are quite imposing
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reddit.com Jolm262 Mar 19, 2021