LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — “Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The ...

The irony is that while battlecruisers are gone, they are still with us today. Battlecruisers were eggshells armed with hammers, which exactly describes modern warships. Today’s combat vessels mount ...

The Battleship game is a popular pencil-and-paper guessing game. It consists of two players, each one with her or his own paper game board. The players arrange their ships, take turns in shooting the ...

The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought ...