Block Stacking 101

Over-Lappy Lappy If you’ve played Reassembly for a while, eventually you will have seen ships that stack overlapping parts. Some players consider these techniques cheating. Others see them as a normal part of the game and regularly use them in tournaments. Either way, if you’re interested in how it’s done, or just bored with the … Read more…

Collecting Reassembly Tournament Data from Log Files

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Work Smarter. Not Harder. If you’ve ever gotten serious about trying to optimize your ships or fleets, you’ll spend TONS of time watching matches to see how they come out. What if you could be using that time to build more ships, get more sleep, or maybe go outside sometime? Get some fresh air, will … Read more…

Factory Tricks

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Replication Gimmicks. Factory blocks are the source of all your reproduction, punching-out command modules to replicate ships and bases. These tidbits of knowledge may, or may not be helpful to you. Gimme My Space. A factory needs at least one block of space in which to produce a new command module. This one-block space can … Read more…

One Fleet to Rule Them All

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Forging the One. The tournament fleet competitions are new, but in testing creating, and trying to figure-out what works, I have some thoughts and observations to share. Essential concepts that I believe will play-out in the future. When you start designing, you’ll probably find that results will be quite random or inconsistent. Some fleets may dominate … Read more…

The Big Shot : Faction 4 Goodness

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Domination. The best range. The most power. The best solar panels. Everyone thinks this faction is overpowered, it’s not so much a question as a statement. Instead of finding ways to survive, this is more a matter of optimizing for ultimate killing power. Let’s take a closer look at beating the game. Basics. The basic … Read more…

Nuclear Fallout : Winning with the Sentinels

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Kaboom! Easiest how-to ever, save your R and unlock Nukes. The end. But seriously, what do you do when everyone just makes a nuke fleet? You want your’s to be better, so here are some tips for optimizing an already good faction. When you start-out, your biggest problem is that everything is fucking expensive. It … Read more…

Swarm Warfare : Be a Red Faction Ninja

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These Guys Are Shit! Yes, they will fall apart with the quickness. Your ships will melt like butter verse even the weakest opposition. Avoid danger like the plague, because you are now the punching bag of the galactic ecoshere. Forget domination, how do you even survive with these things? When you start out avoid conflict. … Read more…

Sweet Sweet Honey : Tips for The Bees

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Hive Mind, or Melee Monster? The default ships for the Bees are pretty sucky. The first time you encounter them in Reassembly, you’ll kill some little fly-like things and smash all their buildings. They have like one decent sized ship that’s terrible. Well forget that. I’m not gonna talk about buildings because there’s a separate … Read more…