Welcome to Battlefleet, a set of miniature war game rules which recreate one of the most exciting periods in the history of naval conflict. For over a decade beginning in 1895, established and developing nations of the world engaged in a series of wars and naval programs which were to reshape the world's political landscape. The variety of naval designs and doctrines which were put forth at this time resulted in an almost infinite range of possible results, and the ensuing "Pre-Great War" power struggles made for volatile crises which left no nation safe. It was at this time that the navies of two ancient empires; Russia and Spain, were dramatically defeated at the hands of two new industrial powers; Japan and America. Not only did the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese Wars bring the latest in naval technology to the forefront, but so did numerous other confrontations throughout this period.

Over all this loomed the "super-fleets" of Great Britain and France. The high seas of this time saw "futuristic" French battleships eyeing their British and Italian counterparts, heavily armored American "coastal" battleships maintaining the Monroe Doctrine and the latest British built Japanese fleets shooting it out with the Russians in the West Pacific.

In Battlefleet, many of the possibilities and realities of this time can be recreated, with your abilities having a direct effect on the results.

The computer program Battlefleet is based on the description of the Battlefleet game from the War Times Journal. For now only the small subset of the described game rules is implemented.