Recipe for flail fab?

[philip_hughes]

Ok. I love combat, the worth of even a slow, relatively useless M&M has been proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt... The only problem is I clearly need more flails and hammers than the universe can provide me.

This means I need to turn to the production side of this game. I have aquired a Ryu, so all thats left is to build a flail fab. I want it self sustaining and I need to be able to produce hundreds. Who has done this, what do I need?

[tuman78]

I have done this recently, I set up in ore belt. To work out what factories you need I recommend this: http://grangegame.co.uk/x3tcocc.html.

My complex is;

Flail fab x 6
Hammer fab x 6
Bofu plant x 6L
Bio Gas plant x6L
Crystal Fab x 8
SPP x 1XL
SPP x 1M
Ore Mine x 2L yields 51 and 25
Silicon Mine x 2L yields 64 and 26
CCK x 37

All fabs are Boron except the mines which are Teladi. Total cost is 108,949,984 credits and total station count is 38. This will produce 36 flails and 24 hammers per hour. Not the cheapest complex you could build.

[philip_hughes]

Now, THAT is AWESOME!

[Storm666]

i did 20 flail factories and found it sometimes wasnt enough... but this depends on how much you want to use your M7M

[tuman78]

If you want more then ...

OK so I was a little bored but here you go, using most of ore belt in one complex: http://tinyurl.com/am2kkz

That is 258 flails and 172 hammers per hour totally self sufficient, a bargain at a mere 628 million.

I am now tempted to start a new game with the sole aim of building this complex if at all possible.

[NUKLEAR-SLUG]

If you're happy to outsource some of your strike power to bombers I'ld suggest a Flail and Tomahawk complex.

Tomahawks are smaller, do twice the damage and produce more per cycle.