Fleet Merge

Prospectus

Command a fleet of starships in this merge auto-battler. Buy Line ships, Artillery and Lancers, then merge identical ships to build stronger ones. Your dock is your battle formation: every ship deploys exactly where you place it. Read the enemy fleet on the radar and put the right counter in front of each target. Then watch the battle play out on its own. Push through the Star Map and take on bosses and giant Arks. Earn three stars in every sector. Recruit heroes such as Nova, Valkyrie and Aegis, and learn their tricks in the Tactics Drill. Hold the line in Defense, hunt convoys in Cargo Raid, and challenge other commanders' fleets in Fleet Clash. Rise from Cadet to Grand Admiral and top the power ranking.

How it plays

Tap a ship type to buy a squadron. It flies into your dock. Drag a ship onto an identical ship (same type, same tier) to merge it into a higher tier. Drag ships to arrange your formation. The top row is the front line. Counter triangle: Line ships beat Lancers. Lancers beat Artillery. Artillery beats Line ships. Keep Artillery in the back. Lancers hit harder from the side (×1.25) and from behind (×1.5). Press FIGHT. Battles are automatic, and you can tap to change the speed. Spend credits and cores on upgrades, deploy heroes, and come back for patrol rewards and daily missions.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for merge holdings

• Keep the board breathing. A merge game is lost in the corners first — leave yourself empty squares the way you would leave yourself an exit, because a full board is a finished one.
• Merge upward in batches. Combining everything the instant it pairs feels productive and quietly wastes the chain bonuses that patient, staged merges set up.
• Know your top of tree. Merging without a target produces elegant clutter; merging toward one named prize turns the same moves into a campaign.

Fleet Merge — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Fleet Merge?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Fleet Merge, exactly?

We file it on the Merge shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Fleet Merge on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn tall, for an upright screen — a phone held the usual way frames it best, though it will run in any window you give it.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Fleet Merge is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Merge shelf is one click away — Two of a thing become a better thing. Forty-one merge games about combining your way up a tech tree — chickens into champions, cottages into castles, elements into empires.