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Overview

The Reef is a large ship built by the Strider hub. It has a decent amount of health for its cost and has a powerful weapon which can aid with oceanic assaults.

Statistics

Health: 7500
Movespeed: 82.5 Elmo/s
Cost(Metal/Energy): 3000

Has 2 Airpads on board, which can repair and rearm up to 2 Aircraft.
Idly builds Gull units, to a maximum of 12, these are free.
Must stockpile resources to fire its weapon.

Seeking Disarming Missile

Manually Fired
Damage: 15000(Disarm)
Range: 3000
Reload: 5s
Maximum Disarm Time: 10s
Flight Time: 10s
Stockpile Cost(Metal/Energy): 150
Pierces Shields except charged Funnelweb

Strategy

When using a Reef, do not send it in alone, it will die. Guard it with anti-sub units and other sea-based combat units. It is ill-advised to use the Reef as an aircraft repair point, as it is usually more susceptible to damage than if the aircraft was repairing at base.

Other Information

The Reef shares the tether to any units it controls with the Dominatrix, this one is also purely visual.
The Reef can be lifted by the Gunship factory's heavy transport, however the construction of Gulls is paused when in transport.

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-The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an aircraft carrier from the [[Strider Hub]].{{Autoinfobox zkunit
+== Overview ==
-| defname = shipcarrier
+The Reef is a large ship built by the [[Strider]] hub. It has a decent amount of health for its cost and has a powerful weapon which can aid with oceanic assaults.
-}}==Description==
+=== Statistics ===
-The most versatile ship on the high seas, the carrier serves several functions. It is equipped with a manual-fire disarming Tactical Missile launcher for disabling enemy capital ships from outside of their fire range. The reef serves as a mobile [[Repair#Airpad_repair|repair]] base for friendly aircraft. Perhaps most notably, the carrier provides its own complement of [[Gull|surface attack drones]] to engage targets.
-== Tactics and Strategy ==
+* Health: 7500
+* Movespeed: 82.5 Elmo/s
+* Cost(Metal/Energy): 3000
-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 8 [[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).
+* Has 2 Airpads on board, which can repair and rearm up to 2 Aircraft.
+* Idly builds [[Gull]] units, to a maximum of 12, these are free.
+* Must stockpile resources to fire its weapon.
-- Still, even when the Reef'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.
+==== Seeking Disarming Missile ====
+* Manually Fired
+* Damage: 15000(Disarm)
+* Range: 3000
+* Reload: 5s
+* Maximum Disarm Time: 10s
+* Flight Time: 10s
+* Stockpile Cost(Metal/Energy): 150
+* Pierces Shields except charged [[Funnelweb]]
-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. 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.)
+=== Strategy ===
+When using a Reef, do not send it in alone, it will die. Guard it with anti-sub units and other sea-based combat units. It is ill-advised to use the Reef as an aircraft repair point, as it is usually more susceptible to damage than if the aircraft was repairing at base.
-{{Navbox units}}
+=== Other Information ===
+* The Reef shares the tether to any units it controls with the [[Dominatrix]], this one is also purely visual.
+* The Reef can be lifted by the [[Gunship]] factory's heavy transport, however the construction of [[Gull]]s is paused when in transport.