Factory

Fully built Factory, as seen on the adventure map	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

Factory is a neutral alignment town with the Mercenary and Artificer hero classes. Factory represents Terra Nova.

"Mercenaries and Artificers govern the Factories, wherein tamed, exotic monsters fight side by side with products of advanced technology, such as mechanical constructs and humans equipped with guns or flamethrowers."

Factory's native terrain is wasteland.

Factory building tree

Fully upgraded Factory

Building Category	Cost
Common	45     40         37000
Mage Guild	25   28   25   28   28   28   6000
Dwellings	75   17   95   12   72   7   76400
Unique	10         12500
Total Building Cost:	145   45   170   40   100   35   131900
Troop Cost / Week:	35770 , 6

Common Buildings and Mage Guild

Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
	Village Hall (existing)		Fort 20 20 5000		Tavern   5             500		Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
	Town Hall 2500		Citadel 5 2500		Marketplace   5             500		Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
	City Hall 5000		Castle 10 10 5000		Resource Silo (1 )       5         5000		Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
	Capitol 10000				Blacksmith 5 1000		Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
							Mage Guild level 5   5   10   5   10   10   10   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	25   28   25   28   28   28   6000

Creature Dwellings

Structure		Base Cost	Upgrade Cost	Creature	Max Grw	Upg Cr Cost	Cost/ Week
	Halfling Adobe	5     5         400	2     2       1000	Halfling (Factory)  Halfling Grenadier	30	60	1800
	Foundry	5     5         1000	5     5         1000	Mechanic  Engineer	16	170	2720
	Ranch	5             1000	5             1000	Armadillo  Bellwether Armadillo	15	230	3450
	Manufactory	5     10         2000	5   10         2000	Automaton  Sentinel Automaton	10	450	4500
	Catacombs	5     5     2   2   3000	5   2000	Sandworm  Olgoi-Khorkhoi	6	650	3900
	Watchtower	5   5   5   5       4000	10   5     5       3000	Gunslinger  Bounty Hunter	4	1100	4400
	Serpentarium	10     10     10     10000	10     10     20     15000	Couatl  Crimson Couatl	2	3500 1	7000 2
	Gantry	20     20     15000	10     20     15000	Dreadnought  Juggernaut	2	4000 2	8000 4
Total Dwelling Cost:		75   17   95   12   72   7   76400		Weekly Troop Cost:			35770 6

Unique Buildings

Structure		Effect	Cost
	Bank	Allows the player to get a loan of 2500 gold, decreasing the town's income by 500 gold for 5 days.	5         500
	Mana Generator	Gives a garrison hero 20 additional spell points for the duration of any siege defense.	5         1000
	Artifact Merchants	Allows the visiting hero to buy/sell artifacts.	10000
	Pen	Horde Building. Growth +3/week for  Armadillo /  Bellwether Armadillo	1000
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	Lightning Rod	Grail Structure. +5000 /day, +50% creature growth Strikes all enemy stacks with lightning first round of the controller's turn. Occurs in every battle the player participates in, anywhere on the map. Damage is based on the number of buildings in the grail town.	n/a
Total Cost:			10         12500

Heroes

Factory heroes
Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Henrietta	Mercenary			Halflings		Basic Leadership		Basic Luck
Sam	Mercenary			Mechanics		Basic Offense		Basic Tactics
Tancred	Mercenary			Gunslingers		Advanced Archery
Melchior	Mercenary			Diplomacy		Basic Leadership		Basic Diplomacy
Floribert	Mercenary			First Aid		Basic Armorer		Basic First Aid
Wynona	Mercenary			Scouting		Basic Archery		Basic Scouting
Dury	Mercenary			Armorer		Basic Offense		Basic Armorer
Morton	Mercenary			Ballista		Basic Artillery		Basic Ballistics
Tavin	Mercenary			Offense		Basic Offense		Basic Scouting
Murdoch	Mercenary			Archery		Basic Archery		Basic Tactics
Celestine	Artificer			Armadillos		Basic Wisdom		Basic Pathfinding		Haste
Todd	Artificer			Automatons		Basic Wisdom		Basic Tactics		Shield
Agar	Artificer			Sandworms		Advanced Wisdom				View Earth
Bertram	Artificer			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Scholar		Magic Arrow
Wrathmont	Artificer			Frenzy		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Frenzy
Ziph	Artificer			Lightning Bolt		Basic Wisdom		Basic Sorcery		Lightning Bolt
Victoria	Artificer			Land Mine		Basic Wisdom		Basic Learning		Land Mine
Eanswythe	Artificer			Weakness		Basic Wisdom		Basic Estates		Weakness
Frederick	Artificer			Automatons		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Haste

Banned secondary skills:

Some skills are not available for certain hero classes, which means they can only acquire them from Scholars, Witch Huts (except for Necromancy and Leadership, if not allowed by a map-maker), Seer's Huts, Events or Pandora's Boxes.

Necromancy and Water Magic are not available for Mercenaries.

Necromancy, Resistance, and Interference  are not available for Artificers.

Creatures

Factory creatures
Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Halfling (Factory)   Halfling (Factory)		1	4	2	1	3	4	5	15	75	40		Ranged (24 shots), Positive Luck
Halfling Grenadier   Halfling Grenadier		1+	5	2	2	3	4	6	15	95	60		Ranged (24 shots), Positive Luck, Ranged attack ignores 20% of enemy's defense skill
Mechanic   Mechanic		2	6	5	2	4	14	6	8	186	140		Breath attack, Repairing (10 HP per Mechanic)
Engineer   Engineer		2+	7	5	2	5	16	7	8	278	170		Breath attack, Repairing (20 HP per Engineer)
Armadillo   Armadillo		3	5	10	3	5	25	4	6	198	200
Bellwether Armadillo  Bellwether Armadillo		3+	5	11	3	5	25	6	6	256	230
Automaton   Automaton		4	12	10	7	7	30	8	5	669	350		Mechanical, Detonation
Sentinel Automaton   Sentinel Automaton		4+	12	10	9	9	30	9	5	947	450		Mechanical, Detonation, No enemy retaliation
Sandworm   Sandworm		5	13	12	12	16	50	8	3	991	575		Burrowing, Immune to Blind and Stone Gaze
Olgoi-Khorkhoi   Olgoi-Khorkhoi		5+	15	12	12	16	60	10	3	1220	650		Burrowing, Immune to Blind and Stone Gaze, Devours corpses for additional strikes
Gunslinger   Gunslinger		6	17	12	14	24	45	7	2	1351	800		Ranged (16 shots), Preemptive Shot (once per round)
Bounty Hunter   Bounty Hunter		6+	18	14	14	24	45	8	2	1454	1100		Ranged (24 shots), Preemptive Shot (unlimited)
Couatl   Couatl		7	17	17	25	45	160	11	1	3574	2000		Flying, Skips a turn to get temporary invulnerability
Crimson Couatl   Crimson Couatl		7+	21	21	25	45	200	15	1	5341	3500	1	Flying, Gets temporary invulnerability without skipping a turn
Dreadnought   Dreadnought		7	18	20	40	50	200	6	1	3879	2500	1	Mechanical, Heat Stroke
Juggernaut   Juggernaut		7+	23	23	40	50	300	7	1	6433	4000	2	Mechanical, Heat Stroke

Town names

Unless specified by the mapmaker, towns will generate with a random name. Factory towns will use one of these following names:

Arcadia	Ardon	Aurichalcum	Burton
Corakstone	Dardentor	Endurance	Fort Rotwang
Kergar	Mount Copper	New Dolere	Prospero
Ridder	Salda	Volta	Vulcan

If there are more Factory towns on the map than possible names, they will use names taken from other towns.

User commentary

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Thematically, the Factory town is inspired mostly by the Wizard and Warlock factions from Heroes of Might and Magic II, as well as the Forge concept. From the Heroes 2 Wizard town, it takes the Wasteland terrain, the halfling unit, and the pen and foundry buildings, though repurposed for different units. In addition, the Halfling Adobe building is taken from the Heroes 2 Barbarian town, where it was used for Ogres; that these are abandoned Ogre buildings is explicitly mentioned during the campaign. From the Heroes 2 Warlock, it mostly takes returning heroes Agar, Elderian, and Wrathmont. From the Forge, it takes the idea of a faction much more technologically advanced than the others thanks to the discovery of the Heavenly Forge, though stops at a Steampunk aesthetic instead of a Cyberpunk one. The flamethrower of the Mechanics and Engineers is directly inspired by the pyros and pyromaniacs of the Forge concept. The names of the Dreadnought and Juggernaut are also taken from the Forge's planned level 7 units, though they were swapped around, with Juggernaut as the base unit and Dreadnought as the upgraded one in the original Forge concept. The factory name "New Dolere" is also inspired by the Forge screenshot were the town is named Dolere (which is normally a Stronghold name). Factory has two creature line-ups: natural and technological. Both have their own level 7 creature and can be developed in parallel. Factory army is well balanced in offensive, defensive and support at all stages of the game. Maximum Mage Guild level is 5. Pros: Despite its expensiveness Factory can choose one unit line-up and develop it quite quickly. Factory has 2 mechanical creatures which can be repaired (i.e. "resurrected") if damaged. Factory towns can "earn" 5-day income (2500 gold) in advance using Banks every 5 days. Banks are strategically useful at early game, so could be used to faster max upgrade halls and other income-based buildings in order to have great economical advantage at early game and further. Halflings are possibly the best level 1 unit. They shoot, like Master Gremlins, but have higher stats and an extra ability (ignoring enemy defence). Automatons are among the best level 4 units, with no enemy retaliation ability. They can be used as tanks early on and repaired with Mechanics or used as suicide-bombers with their Detonation at death ability, which allows them to explode and deal significant damage to all creatures surrounding them. This can be used early in the game to defeat much stronger enemies. Bounty Hunters are useful for clearing Wandering Creatures, Creature Banks and hero-vs-hero battles(recommended with Shackles of War and casted Anti-Magic spell in order to prevent harmful Forgetfulness and damage spells) which have only ranged creatures without casualties due to unlimited Preemptive Shots. Native terrain is wasteland, which makes it harder for other units to traverse (however, movement penalty is lower than for snow or swamp, which are native terrains of Tower, Cove and Fortress, respectively). Excellent Grail building; Lightning Rod can wipe out the entire army of wandering creatures, or deal significant damage against enemy hero's army. Sending multiple heroes a turn with no army when one of the allied Factory towns has the Lightning Rod can clear almost all enemies, except for units that have Spell immunity or a Spell Damage Reduction. This is the only type of Hit-and-run allowed since patch 1.7. Cons: Factory is an expensive town. To have both unit line-ups a lot of resources is needed (70 Crystals just for the lvl 7 creature dwellings and their upgrades). On top of that, it has among the highest ore spending on all buildings, and the highest army cost (even when comparing 7 vs 7 units, and not including the level 3 Bellwether Armadillos). A lot of the Factory units are quite weak in comparison to other creatures of the same level, especially when unupgraded (especially Armadillos and Couatls). Most Factory units are quite slow (only Automatons, Sandworms and Couatls have at least 8 Speed), and a lot of the units have very low HP (Halflings, Bounty Hunters, Couatls are among the most fragile units for their respective tiers). Factory doesn't have 1-4 level flying units. All other towns besides Inferno and Stronghold have at least one. Their only flying units are Sandworms (level 5) and Couatls (level 7).

See also

• Town Comparison
• List of creatures
• List of heroes