I don't know how Battleship is so popular - it's pretty boring having to guess every single square. With Airplanes, you win by finding only the three squares that contain the heads (cockpits) of the airplanes. there is also a lot more strategy involved as you can intermingle your airplanes to confuse your opponent.
Here's how the three planes look on the board:
We used to have a monthly tournament ("liga de avioane") on doizece.ro but unfortunately they stopped supporting the game. I used to be one of the best players at this game, and I was quite disappointed when they removed the game
I hope this is not considered advertising (I don't have any ads on the website so I'm not making any money off of it); it's only a late night/weekend project.
The website is: http://airplanes.ro
Rotate your planes by pressing space while you drag them, BEFORE you place them on the board.
Right now it's mostly Romanians playing it (you can Google Translate if you get asked something, which will probably be "joci?" which means "you wanna play?" etc... but everything you need to know I already translated into English), but there's a huge Battleship gaming base (non-Romanian speaking) that could play my game. I just have to find them. Once I get a decent amount of regular users I'll start organizing tournaments again.
Go ahead and play it. I'm open to any suggestions that you guys have.