Enemy Race Manager

This mod aims provide a RTS experience with Factorio logistics. It works best with other ERM branded mods. Base game biters are also enhanced with new features.

Discord: https://discord.gg/BwWXygyEyQ

Special Thanks

jo.nat to provide the remaster graphics!
[Hawke] to improve ERM unit control features!
See ERM assets credit for 3rd party assets. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/enemyracemanager_assets

What's new in 2.0.46

Air raid radar. A long range custom radar that scan for ERM aerial attack groups. Precision warning now depends on it. You should build one immediately.
Added "engineer army", B rank army that you can build from early game.
Requires ERM Unit Control 1.1. Added control group support.
Allow disabling corrupt robot for biters. However enemy learnt to build sand bridges if they get stuck on pathing.
All ERM army recipes are now in its own army tab.
Improvements and Bugfixes

Notices

2.0.x are all experimental release. Expect crashes and unit imbalance. Most things are subjected to change. 2.1 will be the first stable release.
Support for base game will be limited to shared features and fixing crashes. This mod is now focus on warfare with space logistic in space age.
When you are playing with many other mods. Please go through "Mod Compatibility section" for additional detail or compatibility mod downloads.

Download New race demo

These race mods are made as educational demos. You'll have to download them separately.

New Enemy Races:
- Zerg - Garm Brood
- Protoss - Akilea Tribe
- RedArmy

Player Controllable Units:
- Engineer Army - included (B rank)
- >>>>Terran<<<< (S rank)
- Some zerg units from Zerg - Garm Brood (A rank)
- Some protoss units from Protoss - Akilea Tribe (A rank)

Tips on defense:
- A LOT OF construction robots and repair kits. Automate repair network ASAP. Mix all turrets. Uranium bullets and flamethrowers are OP.
- Build multiple layers of turrets and walls in early game. Don't bother repairing without automated bot repairs. Replace the damage turret with new one and build wall after it destroyed.
- Advanced Spaceship Repair helps to repair entities in a batch on spaceship. It's an optional dependency and it requires space-age.

Do you want to create your new race? Please refer to this doc New-Race-DEV-README.md and join my discord for additional help.

New Features

Custom Enemy Evolution & Difficulty

Enemy evolution is based on Force's evolution factor and kills. When enemy evolves, they pick a higher tier of the same units. The enemy evolve independently on each planet. The more you kill, the quicker they evolve.

There are total of 5 tier for each enemy entity, from normal, great, exceptional, epic and legendary. Which tier can you handle?

New Unit Types

Aerial units.
Dropships, flying unit that spawn other units.
Carriers, Unit that spawn other smaller units in a batch
Builders, unit that builds spawner or turret on the spot.
Invisible units, unit that can only be seen by certain turrets.
Suicidal units, which kill themselves to cause massive damage.

Custom Attack Groups & Attack Points

Custom attack groups are generated by attack points. Everything you kill worth some attack points. Once it hit a threshold, the enemy will send a wave of custom attack group to your base. They spawn on top of the base game's pollution based attacks.

There are various types of attack groups. Ground attack, Arial attack, dropships, stealth attacks. See in-game tip and tricks for details.

Build air raid radar to try arial attacks.

Custom Base Expansion

Enemy expansion are no longer build one structure at a time. They build several spawners and turrets to have the best defense.

Environmental Attacks

Some enemy may parasitize another unit to spawn them. Other may be practising quantum teleportation with lightnings.

Free for all

This is currently only work for non Space Age game. You'll have to select "Mixed mode" in Nauvis enemy and enable "Free for all" to active this feature.

When this is enabled, player entity health and enemy damage multiplied by 10x. The multipliers are to balance the time enemy units take to kill each other.

New planets and space routes with tougher enemies.

Some enemy force have their home planet. They are home to their Legendary forces.

Advanced Army Controls (Only for ERM - Terran, or other compatible mods)

Dedicated unit assembly lines.
Set up rally point for automated unit deployment.
Unit teleportation between 2 areas, including between planets/surfaces.
Unit population control

ERM - Terran Control Tutorial: https://youtu.be/MzDwGJ3OOGY

ERM Economy

Zerg, Protoss and Redarmy spawners drop loots. Those loots are used for new recipes and new army units. They can also convert to biter eggs.

When you are not playing with biter, you don't have to capture the "spawner" to get biter eggs.

Planet Aiur and Char use new minerals and geyser nodes. They offer slightly different manufacture workflow.

Boss discovery

Using PSI radar in enemy's home world will reveal their master mind. Are you able to beat them for rewards?

Remote API Support

Remote API Doc

Known Issues

Not support peaceful mode. :)

Mod Compatibility

Please see https://github.com/heyqule/enemy_race_manager/blob/main/Mod-Compatibility.md for full compatibility
details.

Space Exploration in 2.0

You need to download https://mods.factorio.com/mod/erm_se as well to fix compatiblity issues. Any future SE issue will be fix in this compatibility mod

Roadmap

https://github.com/users/heyqule/projects/1

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL CROWDIN TRANSLATORS

UK: Yuriy, Met_en_Bouldry, ExexDiablo
DE: PatrickBlack, Spiti6910, Batrick
ES: Jose Eduardo
FR: Wiwok, Daiky Raraga
RU: SeptiSe7en, Misha Mitchell, oZeDo, X-0D, Alaar
HU: CsokiHUN
CH-zn: Tanvec

You can help translate this mod directly online by going to the following link and finding "ERM" or "Enemy Race
Manager":

https://crowdin.com/project/factorio-mods-localization

New translation will be released in the next version.