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I'm curious how everyone sets up their defenses for their factory so show us how you do yours! I find that once my base gets larger but before I have tons of robots everywhere it is a pain when turrets are constantly being damaged and destroyed, especially losing whole stacks of ammo.

I would, but I practise defense-in-depth, and cannot reveal my defenses, for fear of giving the biters precious intel.

Surrounded my entire base with a double wall-line, with a closed line of laser turrets behind.
Supported by a huge minefield maintained by a fleet of build-drones.

nobodx wrote:Surrounded my entire base with a double wall-line, with a closed line of laser turrets behind.
Supported by a huge minefield maintained by a fleet of build-drones.

MINEFIELDS!


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you're welcome

nobodx wrote:you're welcome

Lol damn. O.o That is nuts. Seems about the equivalent of trying to break into Fort Knox.

unfortunatly, behemoth-biter just walk through it and chew on my walls =/

Pretty simple setup. Single wall backed up by guns that are belt fed and bot repaired. I use this setup on max biter settings and I currently have over 200 hours on the map with constant attacks. This is really all you need to hold up.

_aD wrote:

nobodx wrote:Surrounded my entire base with a double wall-line, with a closed line of laser turrets behind.
Supported by a huge minefield maintained by a fleet of build-drones.

MINEFIELDS!


<3

Btw, did you know, that Robots replace exploded mines ? When i found this out, my view on mines went from "meh" to "omg, i need more"

nobodx wrote:unfortunatly, behemoth-biter just walk through it and chew on my walls =/

Landmines have an area of effect which damages walls (and you!). I put three (four?) express belts between the walls and the land mines. This helps stop the walls taking a hit from the mine explosion.

nobodx wrote:Btw, did you know, that Robots replace exploded mines ? When i found this out, my view on mines went from "meh" to "omg, i need more"

We're gonna need a dedicated mine supply train. With ten wagons. I'll get crafting...

I have a supply-train running to all my outposts, delivering the needed spareparts like walls, repairpacks, turrets, and mines.
Usually a biter attack only destroy a few mines so once they#re set up, you rarely need to replace more than 30 or so.

Edit:
Since the Aliens kept bothering me (and growing homes directly in front of my bases) i startet to build the great wall (without mines yet)
All walls are 3x2 wall-lines, defended with a line of laser turrets, backed up with roboports.
Supplies are brought from my mainbase via trains( walls, repairpacks, turrets).
Each wall have a single passing-point for further expansions.


Im almost finished, only the north-western wall is missing