Spotted Online – Battleship Galaxies “First Look”

One of the things I spotted at the New York Toy Fair that I never had time to fully examine was Hasbro’s new Battleship Galaxies boardgame. Looking at the game, and talking with the rep at the booth, I didn’t quite get where this new game draws on any of the Battleship game series* mechanics . . . but that doesn’t matter too much because what I saw was a great-looking starship combat miniatures game.

The game is out in June, but for now you can read this “First Look” at Purple Pawn. The randomized hit location system —

The attacking player rolls two dice—one (ten-sided) has letters and one (eight-sided) has numbers—and calls out the resulting combination, as in “G-5.” The player who’s ship was targeted looks up the result on a matrix on the target ship’s reference card. An overlay of the ship’s profile will indicate whether the die roll is a hit or miss.

— is kinda similar to classic Battleship, but it feels like a very loose connection to the older game.