# Battleship

A naval target that marks several impact lanes across the page.

Character · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `margin-aces-unit-battleship` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Margin Aces](/field-guide/collections/margin-aces/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/margin-aces-unit-battleship/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/margin-aces-unit-battleship/record.json)

## At a glance

- Battleships sit along the coastal pages and demand a longer commitment to defeat. Their broadside leaves marked gaps. The generic drawing and its shared damage rules are game fiction: aircraft guns reducing its health do not model how a real battleship’s armor worked.

- Fictional arcade role · generic illustration, not a documented unit or person.

## Appearances

- [Margin Aces encyclopedia](/gamelab/projects/marginaces/) (context: [Margin Aces](/field-guide/collections/margin-aces/))

## Dated changes

- 2026-10-30: Added from the named source to the Field Guide.

## Open questions

- Did battleships only fight other battleships? No. Tennessee’s service included support for troops ashore and air-defense work. Actual assignments depended on the ship and the operation.

## Sources

- [Margin Aces encyclopedia](/gamelab/projects/marginaces/)

## Portrait

![Battleship in the original game artwork.](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-game-margin-aces-unit-battleship-v1-1200.webp)

Authored game sprite, frame frame-0. The complete frame silhouette is preserved; transparent margins are removed only for display.

[Download original](/field-guide/assets/portraits/catalog-game-margin-aces-unit-battleship-v1.png) · [Margin Aces authored unit sprite](/gamelab/projects/marginaces/assets/2d/battleship-cycle.png) · v1 · SHA-256: `e8ab531bf2f6f129332661a0175d5ff4e74b916c849ab25a7560105fc0b9bb7a`