¶ Factories
¶ Factories are essential for unit production.
At the start of each campaign, 2 Factory's are available and should be built ASAP.
If your team has no Factory's, all units will be dispatched from your free airbase, greatly increasing unit transport time.
All offensive and defensive units are produced from your Factory's. Locate them in strategic, yet protected positions.
See the Logistics and Cargo Flights page for info on how to procure units
They are not responsible for providing available resource points - these are obtained by capturing the objective zones.
Each coalition can build up to 2 Factory's. Finding and destroying them should be a high priority.
¶ Locating your Factories
To enable you to more easily find the your coalition factories, we can use the F10 → F1 (Status) → F2 (Summary) → F1 (Limits) or use the -limits chat command
They are easily visible on the F10 map by the large yellow (under construction) or green (functional) circular fill state
¶ Deploying a Factory
You may place a Factory within 40nm of a friendly Base/Objective anywhere on the map outside of an exclusion zone (dotted line)
When you deploy a Factory, you get a Factory FARP to enable players to spawn there.
¶ Deployment
To deploy a factory, we spawn a Factory Build Crate use the F10 menu at an Airbase/Objective or FARP with a built Shelter
F10 (Other) → F2 (Cargo) → F3 (Spawn Items) → F1 (Base Items) → Factory Build Crate
This crate can be loaded internally into logistics airframes, sling loaded, or loaded into Utility trucks and moved to a position at least 10nm away from a Friendly Airbase or FARP
Once at the destination, unpack the crate and you will be met with a Factory Construction Site (Repair Workshop).
The build time of a factory is variable between instant and 5 hours, based on the slotted player counts over a 5 hour period to ensure that a team that has been outnumbered for an extended period is not punished further and has the ability to “catch up”
¶ Construction Site
¶ Active Factory
Once the construction phase has been completed, the Repair Workshop will be replaced with a much harder to kill Factory which requires 2x 2000lb Bunker Busters (GBU-31V3, GBU-24 or similar)
