Brawling Battleships is a fun and fast-paced card game that pits powerful squadrons of World War One dreadnought battleships against each other in wild free-for-all fights. From two to six players can play and, for this tournament, each participant plays individually. Points are scored for sinking the opponents’ dreadnoughts, but that is easier said than done amid duds, confusion, spies, second-rate leaders, storms, mutinies and the ever-sinister Zeppelins.

BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS STEEL is being run this year instead of  BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS. BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS STEEL is the new, improved and repackaged version of BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS. It includes everything found in the original game and in the Expansion Deck to the original game plus a few new cards and revised rules to include everything that was originally found in two different places. However, not to worry, there are no major changes to the rules and, if you know how to play BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS, you already know how to play BRAWLING BATTLESHIPS STEEL. This is still a fun and fast-moving game. Entry in one of the three heats used to determine finalists can be a break from more intense games and, judging from last year’s finals, playing in the final round may be as intense as anything at WBC.