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Amiral: Sea Battle A calm sea battle for two: with friends, real players or a bot.
Amiral is a calm sea battle for two, played on a night sea. Lay out your fleet, pick a square on your opponent’s sea and fire. It is our own take on the old pencil-and-paper game.
Coming soon to Android
How to playAmiral is in closed testing on Google Play; its store page opens to everyone at launch. An iPhone version will come later.
- 2 players · 9×9 or 10×10
- One battle, best of 3 or 5
- Free, no real money
A sea battle, at your own pace
Two players, two hidden fleets, one square at a time. You place your ships on your own sea, then you take turns calling squares on the other sea until one fleet is gone. It is the pencil-and-paper game many of us played at school, in our own version with its own boards and fleets.
The screens are a quiet night sea with a moon and a lighthouse, and on every screen the light falls on one thing only. You play with one hand, in portrait, and running out of time costs you nothing: a shot is fired for you, with no penalty.
Two boards
The 9×9 Kahvehane board with 7 ships, and at a friend’s table the 10×10 Classic board with 10 ships.
Ships never touch
Not even at a corner. A sunk ship always has open water around it, and the game marks it for you.
A hit fires again
Hit a ship and you shoot again. A miss passes the turn to your opponent.
One battle or a match
Play one battle, best of 3 or best of 5. A rematch is one tap away.
How to play
The rules fit on a napkin. Your first match in the app is a guided one against a bot, step by step.
Lay out your fleet. Place your ships on your own sea, or tap Shuffle for a new layout. Ships may not touch, not even at a corner. If time runs out, you start with the layout on your screen, with no penalty.
Take turns firing. Pick a square on your opponent’s sea and fire. On that sea you only ever see what your own shots found.
Miss, hit or sunk. A miss passes the turn. A hit lets you fire again. When every square of a ship has been hit, it sinks: the ship is revealed and the water around it is marked for you.
Sink the whole fleet. The first player to sink every ship of the other fleet wins the battle. Then both fleets are shown.
Win the match. A match is one battle, best of 3 or best of 5: the first to win 1, 2 or 3 battles takes it. Before each battle, both players lay out their fleets again.
Ways to play
- Quick play. Meet real players on the 9×9 board. If nobody comes, a bot takes the seat, and it always says it is a bot.
- A friend’s table. Set up a private table and invite a friend by code, QR code or a shared link. You choose the board (9×9 or 10×10), how many battles and the shot clock.
- Practise with a bot. Easy or Normal, with no entry. Practice tables give no Akçe and never change your rating.
- Tables. Sit down at an open table in the lobby, or watch a game being played. Spectators only see the shots, never a hidden ship.
- League and friends. A weekly league and a season rating, a friends list and preset quick messages. There is no free chat.
Inside the game
Real screens from the app, captured from a test build. Swipe for more screens
Pick a square, fire 
Lay out your fleet 
Who do you want to play with? 
A friend’s table 
Between battles 
Marks you tell apart by shape
Fair and calm
No real money
No real money can be won or lost. Akçe, the game’s currency, is only earned: by playing, from a daily gift and from optional rewarded ads. It cannot be bought, sent to another player or cashed out, and it has no cash value.
Nothing bought reaches the table
In the Bazaar you spend earned Akçe on ship hulls, seas and frames, which only change the look. The optional Amiral Club and the ad-free pack give no Akçe and no advantage.
Bots say they are bots
A bot is always labelled BOT next to its name and is never shown as a person. Matches with bots never change your rating.
Few ads, in set places
No ads during a match or when the app opens. One small banner only on the quick-play waiting screen, now and then an ad when you leave a finished table, and rewarded ads only when you choose to watch one. Club members and ad-free pack owners get no banner and no ads between matches.
No rush
If time runs out, your fleet starts as it stands or a shot is fired for you; after two timeouts in a row the autopilot plays until you take the helm back. You never lose a match because time ran out.
Easy to see
Miss, hit and sunk marks differ by shape, not only by colour, so they are colour-blind friendly. There is a one-handed layout, and motion can be reduced.
One account for both games
The same account as Tabula Domino
Play without an email address or a password, or sign in with Google to keep your account on another phone. Your account and friends are shared with Tabula Domino; Akçe, Bazaar items, the Club and the ad-free pack are separate in each game.
Android, in six languages
For Android 7.1 or newer, played in portrait. The game is in English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Arabic (right to left). An internet connection is required.
Ages 13 and up
Players aged 13 to 17 play in a protected mode: only non-personalised ads, no analytics and no crash reports.
Coming soon to Android
Amiral is in closed testing on Google Play now. When it opens to everyone, its store page will be linked here. An iPhone version will come later.
Help and support
A question, an idea or a problem at the table? Write to us; a person reads every email.
in the game: Settings → Help → Support by e-mail
Your account is shared with Tabula Domino: deleting it deletes it in both games.