Factory

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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

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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	XX     XX         12000
Total Building Cost:	XXX   XX   XXX   XX   XX   XX   XXX000
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
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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

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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

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Factory has two creature line-ups: natural and technological. Both have their own level 7 creature and can be developed in parallel. 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. 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 hard for other units to traverse. Cons: Factory is an expensive town. To have both unit line-ups, i.e to have different tactics, a lot of resourses is needed. Most Factory units are quite slow. Factory has two flying units, both of whom are from natural line-up.

See also

• Town Comparison
• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)
• List of heroes
• List of heroes (HotA)