The main ship
The prepared A-1
spaceship “Astro Assembler” has got a laser and missiles as standard equipment.
It doesn’t include shield, thus destructing the ship at any enemy fire.
It’s possible, though,
to boost the attack power (laser (L) and missiles (M)) and the speed (S)
by taking items as the levels progress. These items reside inside blue
capsules that are destroyed using missiles.
(F) Energy (to assemble new ships). This energy is represented by an gauge at the upper part of the screen.
(P) Points
(C) Keeps the ship state from this ship to the next, after it has been destroyed. The yellow C keeps speed and the blue keeps the laser while the red one keeps missiles.
(U) Extra energy capacity unit.
(X) Extra ship.
These are only some of the most important ones. There are also black or inverted letters, which are both negative so it’s better to avoid them.
This is the complete list of capsule items:
Together with the standard weapons, our combat ship can assemble with 9 more ships that give extra attack power. You have to find out the three parts that compose the ships inside the capsules. When a ship is complete, we can select it if we have got enough energy.
Aside from a bigger attack power, they have got a shield, but it’s only available for a limited time becausenthey need energy. Whe it get’s exausted (either by time or by hits), the ship will disassemble automatically. The exception is the “ARMOR” ship which only loses energy with hits.
This special weapon system is designed to allow the player to complete the most complicated situations. You have to use them at critical points only, avoiding wasting them, thus setting up strategies for the player.
Ship
assembling
Once a ship has been completed we can select it from the weapons gauge (lower-left corner of the screen) pressing the second fire button (or the matching key on the keyboard). A single press will show the available ships, which can be scrolled tleft and right.
When the gauge gets a blinking ship, we can assemble it by pressing button 2 again.
On extreme situations we can assemble the first available ship by pressing fast button 2 two times.
The ships can be disassembled by pressing button 2 two times in rapid sucesion.
You should note that
you need energy to assemble the ships. For type-1(blue) ships you only
need to have the blue part. For type-2(green) you need at least the green
part, while for the type-3 one (red) you need at least 8 red units.