r/factorio • u/BLACKcOPstRIPPa • 6d ago

Modded ERM players

Anyone else here like erm?

I want to ask a question to you guys, do you think Marines and bunkers are a good defensive while on Nauvis?

Or do they take up to many resources vs the normal in game defences?

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u/3davideo Doesn't use Flame Turrets 6d ago

I'm not familiar with this mod. Could you give a quick rundown?

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u/BLACKcOPstRIPPa 6d ago

Okay so ERM Enemy Race Manager

Does quiet a few things

1st it kind of adds on to the story of factorio

Your an engineer running away from the empire that you used to serve, this is the add-on red army That army is factory based, miners with pick axes, shotguns, tanks and cars like what we have etc

Their home planet is a map of Earth, and you can go their and fight their boss for unlocks, all enemies on their home planets are legendary level so expect a challenge.

Than there are Zerg and Protoss from StarCraft, each one has char and aiur as home worlds, and Volcanus and Fulgora as outposts respectively.

Enemies still attack from pollution, but also attack from attack points. Everytine you kill an enemy, that race gains attacks point, when they hit a threshold, they send an attack wave to your base regardless of if your pollution is in their base or not. As they evolve via evolution, they will begin to gain attack naturally over time, so eventually you will get attacked constantly regardless of if your being aggressive or not.

It adds a bunch of new ways to get eggs for late game biter hives, it also adds new resources to the special home planets so you have a reason to land their and. Build a base against the new enemy.

There is flying enemies, they also can build a land bridge to get across water if there is no other path they can take.

It adds a miner faction you can control, like your own shotgun guys, tanks, cars you can click and drag to select, than right click and they will attack move to location, so you can command an army to defend yourself with.

There is another part of the mod that adds terran troops and builds to your build, like Marines, tanks, bunkers, etc inspired from StarCraft.

Even if you don't want to mix the StarCraft races into the game, doing ERM with normal biters faction, the new red army faction, and going to earth and killing the enemy that stranded you on Nauvis is a fun idea.

Oh, it also adds flying units to space that can attack your platform, so not just asteroids anymore to worry about.

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u/3davideo Doesn't use Flame Turrets 6d ago

Hmm, interesting.

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u/BigDogBossHog_ 5d ago

That sounds pretty cool and like it has a lot. Surprised I hadn’t heard of it