Oh! So the Unity race I was playing? Their killer app was that they could convert ship types. Combine a couple interceptors into a cruiser, combine a couple cruisers into a dreadnaught, and ultimately combine a couple dreads into a “death star moon” which is pretty tough but also worth 4 VPs.

I had stumbled into a 3-hull discovery tech (shard hull maybe?) and later into one of the rare guns, pair of two blue dice at 3x hits/die. I was short-sighted and put the shard hull on my cruisers, which was fuckin’ rad because I put my big engine on my dread. Then I’d fly the one dread super-fast all over the map and it’d barf out a pair of overarmored, overarmed, otherwise immobile cruiser.

I think the REAL trick is to do that with the interceptors. At the cost of a handful of resource (transmatter I think is what Unity calls it), you can convert one dread into four of the little fuckers. 16 total hull to get through! 8 dice hitting with 3 hits each! Aaaaahhh bliss.