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The most versatile ship on the high seas, the carrier serves several functions. It is equipped with a manual-fire disarming missile launcher for disabling enemy capital ships at range and serves as a mobile repair base for friendly aircraft. Perhaps most notably, the carrier provides its own complement of surface attack drones to engage targets.
 
The most versatile ship on the high seas, the carrier serves several functions. It is equipped with a manual-fire disarming missile launcher for disabling enemy capital ships at range and serves as a mobile repair base for friendly aircraft. Perhaps most notably, the carrier provides its own complement of surface attack drones to engage targets.
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== Tactics and Strategy ==
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Like its land-based counterpart, the [[Funnelweb]], the Reef's drones can travel a fairly long distance away from it, so it can be used in a similar role as a Skirmisher (as opposed to the amphibious [[Detriment]], which is like a riot/assault unit compared to the Reef). Moreover, when you've built up enough drones (each Reef can have up to 6 [[Gull]] drones, with a combined dps of 640), they can easily overwhelm enemies through sheer numbers (especially when you have many Reefs). However, anti-swarm units and structures, including anti-air weapons, can and will give the Reef's drones problems (in which case, if you're noticing that your Reefs are not breaking through the enemy's defenses in a reasonable amount of time, then it might be time to send them back to recover).
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- Still, even when the Reef's (and Funnelweb's) drones are being shot down, at least they can distract the enemy from your other units, including other heavy units like the [[Grizzly]]. Besides, the drones are totally expendable, while the Reef is sitting at a safe distance away.
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- Amusingly enough, since anti-air units will target the Reef's drones, a single Reef can cause an enemy's [[Artemis]] to waste its supply of insanely-powerful anti-air missiles on constantly-respawning drones, potentially allowing allied aircraft to take advantage of the situation.
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As for the Reef's disarm missiles, keep in mind that, while they're being stockpiled, you'll be draining 5 metal-per-second-per-Reef. Therefore, if you're building many Reefs, and you want to conserve where your metal is being spent, you may want to limit how many disarm missiles they're allowed to stockpile. (The Reef's stockpile size is set to a whopping 100 by default.) Generally, a stockpile size of just 1 or 2 missiles per Reef should be sufficient if your Reefs are seeing constant battle. (For the record, 2 or 3 missiles should be adequate to keep a [[Shogun]] disarmed, while 16 should be sufficient to keep a [[Detriment]] disarmed, though you'll still need to follow it up by destroying said units.)
  
 
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Revision as of 23:37, 18 September 2018

The Reef is an aircraft carrier from the Strider Hub.

Reef
(shipcarrier)
Aircraft Carrier (Bombardment), stockpiles disarm missiles at 5 m/s
shipcarrier.png​ shipcarrier
Stats
Cost 3000
Hit Points 7500
Movement Speed (elmo/s) 83
Turn Rate (deg/s) 38
Vision Radius (elmo) 660
Sonar (elmo) 660
Abilities
Spawns Drones
Unit Gull
Max drones 8
Range 1000
Spawn interval 5
Spawn size 1
Build time 25
Drone building capacity 4
Weapons
Disarm Missile
Damage 0
Disarm Damage 15000
Reload Time (s) 5
Damage per Second 0 + 3000
Max Stun Time (s) 10
Range (elmo) 3000
Area of Effect (elmo) 140
Projectile Speed (elmo/s) 1200
Stockpile time (s) 30
Stockpile cost (M) 150

Description

The most versatile ship on the high seas, the carrier serves several functions. It is equipped with a manual-fire disarming missile launcher for disabling enemy capital ships at range and serves as a mobile repair base for friendly aircraft. Perhaps most notably, the carrier provides its own complement of surface attack drones to engage targets.

Tactics and Strategy

Like its land-based counterpart, the Funnelweb, the Reef's drones can travel a fairly long distance away from it, so it can be used in a similar role as a Skirmisher (as opposed to the amphibious Detriment, which is like a riot/assault unit compared to the Reef). Moreover, when you've built up enough drones (each Reef can have up to 6 Gull drones, with a combined dps of 640), they can easily overwhelm enemies through sheer numbers (especially when you have many Reefs). However, anti-swarm units and structures, including anti-air weapons, can and will give the Reef's drones problems (in which case, if you're noticing that your Reefs are not breaking through the enemy's defenses in a reasonable amount of time, then it might be time to send them back to recover).

- Still, even when the Reef's (and Funnelweb's) drones are being shot down, at least they can distract the enemy from your other units, including other heavy units like the Grizzly. Besides, the drones are totally expendable, while the Reef is sitting at a safe distance away.

- Amusingly enough, since anti-air units will target the Reef's drones, a single Reef can cause an enemy's Artemis to waste its supply of insanely-powerful anti-air missiles on constantly-respawning drones, potentially allowing allied aircraft to take advantage of the situation.


As for the Reef's disarm missiles, keep in mind that, while they're being stockpiled, you'll be draining 5 metal-per-second-per-Reef. Therefore, if you're building many Reefs, and you want to conserve where your metal is being spent, you may want to limit how many disarm missiles they're allowed to stockpile. (The Reef's stockpile size is set to a whopping 100 by default.) Generally, a stockpile size of just 1 or 2 missiles per Reef should be sufficient if your Reefs are seeing constant battle. (For the record, 2 or 3 missiles should be adequate to keep a Shogun disarmed, while 16 should be sufficient to keep a Detriment disarmed, though you'll still need to follow it up by destroying said units.)

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