Factory

Fully built Factory, as seen on the adventure map	Towns
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Factory is a neutral alignment town with the mercenary and artificer hero classes. Factory armies combine nature with an attempt to harness its power, featuring humans wielding technology such as guns and flamethrowers, and creatures enhanced by technological advancements.

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: 35920 , 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 [[{{{structure_5}}}]] 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 + colspan = 14 style="background-color:#Template:Blue 0; font-size: 120%; color:white; height:28px;" | 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 Darentor Endurance Fort Rotwang Kerger 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 [Show user commentary] [Hide user commentary] 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 creatures (HotA) List of heroes List of heroes (HotA)