The spaceships in Astro Battle are made up of modules. Modules are components that contribute some ability or property to the spaceship as a whole. Some examples of modules are: bridges, thrusters, cannons, torpedo bays, reactors and batteries.

The modules are snapped together in the design tool. A successful design not only relies on the modules selected but the arrangement of the modules. For example: one type of tactical design is to point weapons in every direction in order to increase the likelihood of a hit, whereas the opposite strategy would be to point all weapons in one direction in order to maximize the damage of a single hit.

Piloting takes place in arenas--large metallic cubes orbiting the moon.

A Player can join an arena by challenging another player to a space duel or by joining a dedicated server (which can host several players at a time). Astro Battle also has a practice arena for testing ship designs offline.

Points are awarded to a player every time he destroys a module from another players ship and subtracted when a player looses his bridge or ejects and selects another ship.

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