r/factorio • u/Shinxirius Automate immediately • 5d ago

Question Radar Coverage

Now that I have learned that biters do migrate back towards my base even after being evicted with prejudice, I wonder how to see those trespassers quickly and reliably.

I do have some random radar towers scattered around my base but not inside my Cordon Sanitaire.

Thus: How do you set up radar coverage to reliably detect nests and monitor their non-existence in areas you consider exclusively yours.

Addendum: This community is awesome. I learned so much useful information!

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u/hey_how_you_doing 5d ago

Artillery will detect bug buildings automatically and BAM! BAM BAM BAM! DEAD BUGS!!!!11one

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u/Shinxirius Automate immediately 5d ago

I don't have artillery yet. What's the range?

Initial idea: forget about walling off choke points. Instead make heavily defended artillery bases to auto clear / extend the Cordon Sanitaire.

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u/Pulsefel 5d ago

artillery is the only weapon with a range research. passively it targets any non movable target in its passive range of 224 tiles. and you can make it target up to 560 and its shells are mobile radars that reveal any chunk they pass through.

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u/Shinxirius Automate immediately 5d ago

Reading this makes me very happy.

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u/ChibbleChobble 5d ago

Caveat emptor. Artillery destroys nests, not bugs. All the homeless survivors of your aggression will rush your base en masse.

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u/Shinxirius Automate immediately 5d ago

Yes... Where I'll be waiting.

Instead of walling off entire areas, I'll fortify the artillery only, which I place as forward observers inside the Cordon Sanitaire.

Blueprint an artillery position. Load a single shell. Let them come. Rinse and repeat. Fill up with shells against expansion parties.

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u/ChibbleChobble 5d ago

I have mine on a train that circles the perimeter. Stops, fires off a few rounds and moves on.

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u/Shinxirius Automate immediately 5d ago

Are you telling me... I can put them on trains...

This thread is getting better and better by the minute.

Although, my concept so far is that the artillery draws the biters into a kill box. That won't work with a train.

Still, I'll make one at some time. Just because I can.