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About This Game

The classroom classic, now online

Two grids on squared paper, three hidden planes each, and a whispered "B5?" across the desk. Romanians know it as Avioane, Chinese players as 炸飞机. Battle Planes brings this folk pen-and-paper game to your PC and keeps the rules you remember.

Ships take 20 hits. Planes take 3.

How to play

• Hide your planes: place your 3 planes anywhere on your 10x10 grid. Click a plane to rotate it, or press Shuffle.
  
• Take turns firing: pick a square on your opponent's grid. Every shot is a hit, a miss or a kill.
  
• Find the propeller: each plane covers 10 squares but has one weak spot, the propeller at the very front. Hit it and the whole plane goes down.
  
• Deduce, don't guess: read the shape from your hits and work out where the propeller must be.
  
• Win: hit all 3 propellers before your opponent finds yours.

It takes a minute to learn and a lot longer to master. Matches last 1–5 minutes, and no two games play out the same way.

Game modes

• Vs the computer: play offline against 4 levels: Easy, Medium, Hard and Ace.
  
• Online matchmaking: get paired with a real opponent.
  
• Private room: create a room, share the room code and challenge a friend.

Features

• Cross-play: Steam, Android and web players meet in the same online matches.
  
• Elo rankings: climb the all-time and last-30-days leaderboards.
  
• Friends and match history
  
• Instant rematch
  
• Interactive tutorial
  
• Notebook look: maths-notebook menus, and a red-pen "10" from the teacher when you win.
  
• 6 languages: English, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian.

Fast, but strategic

Turns are quick, but every shot counts. Hiding your planes matters as much as hunting theirs: change your placement every game, read every hit and outthink your opponent, game after game.

Made by one developer at Duct Tape Games, who grew up playing Avioane on maths-notebook paper.

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