Manufacturer

**Manufacturer** is a Tier 4 weapon that can spawn minions resembling Destroyer-Palace's.

## Technical/Design

A Minion Spawner barrel thicker than Factory.

Base Stats
 Minion Reload
 Minion Bullet Damage
 Minion Bullet Speed
 Minion Bullet Penetration
 Minion Health
 Minion Body Damage
 Minion Movement Speed

[Sources: Tank Editor from the Test Server]

## Strategy

#### As a Manufacturer

- If you're fighting a rammer, do not overextend your minions. Doing this will give the rammer a window of time to ram you. Try to aim your manufacturers to deal the most damage so you can kill it by ramming the rammer (Yes, really) with the same minions if it gets too close.

- Manufacturer is good against drone tanks as long as they aren't in a team, Just keep the manufacturers away and aim at them. If you are desperate, feel free to ram the manufacturers on the drones. This will buy you time to attack before the drone user recovers their drones. If you are facing a Manufacturer, the tides determine on skill and level, As for Industry, If they overpower your manufacturer bullets, try flank their minions and destroy them so you can kill them.

- Manufacturer is a bit worse at fighting trap tanks in comparison to Industry, but its still great at doing so. If the trap user like Riot or Amalgam boosts at you, you can use this to fire all your manufacturers on them, dealing serious damage or even killing them if they do not have a HP build.

- You can pick up Mothership to protect your own manufacturers and yourself as well as deal extra damage.

- You can also get Inferno for additional anti-ram value.

- Saw may be a good base because of it’s speed. You can let your drones attack without controlling them off-screen while you dodge and run around.

- Avoid Marksmen. They can shoot you from far away and you can't reach them assuming they use Saw, but if they use Ziggurat or Bombard you could catch up with the marksman and kill it while trying not to be killed by their bullets. If you are attacking them head on, keep your minions in front of you for protection while you approach them.

- Avoid celestials like Asteroid as their trap defenses make it incredibly hard to breach, Gather up people to kill it instead (4 Teams). Also including Blazar and Comet since they're very deadly.

- Bullet tanks that are Penta or Hybrid are somewhat easy if you have max reload and watching for yourself.

#### Against a Manufacturer

- Try to bait the Manufacturer into chasing you with its drones as a Rammer, then when their drones are far enough, immediately go for the Manufacturer.

- As Marksman, use Saw to keep up with the Manufacturer and try to land a hit on the Manufacturer, If the Manufacturer is blocking your bullets with their minions, leave them alone for a moment and strike back in a different direction since they can't see you.

- As an trap tank, use Alpha at the right moment to destroy the Manufacturer's minions, Riot can withstand manufacturer bombardment for some time. Use Inferno when they're trying to breach in to boost at it, rapidly diminishing its HP, try not to expose yourself.

- As an minion tank, like Hatcher or Industry. For Hatcher, repel your drones and then attack the manufacturer using drones. It’s harder to defend against all fronts, or try to outperform it's minion bullets with max reload and tons of damage/penetration. For Industry, attack the Manufacturer minions, since they're the primary source of Manufacturer's offense. Once most or all of them are destroyed, attack the Manufacturer itself.

- As an drone tank, like Emperor, Manufacturers are capable of destroying your drone army by simply shooting and staying away from your drones. So either avoid them or surprise them or repel your drones like Hatcher and attack. However, this allows them to attack straight at you so probably don't do that unless it has bad timing/reaction.

- As an bullet tank, Avoid the manufacturer and kill the minions, Then kill the Manufacturer, For Annihilator, Get close to the minions, then shoot at them, Your bullet overpowers theirs, but if they shoot far away. their combined DPS would destroy the bullets. If you're using Saw, then simply avoid the manufacturers and when you feel like you can hit the Manufacturer, shoot at it.

- As an Celestial, avoid exposing yourself by firing bullets at different angles (Quasar has a easier job in this) so that you don't get lots of damage from the minions, If you are Blazar, its similar to Annihilator but easier since you have lots of reload compared to Annihilator, Just simply chase the Manufacturer (if you have Comet) and destroy its minions with your cannons. If you are Asteroid, try using Galaxy or Naos to fight back against them. If you don't have one, ignore them. Your traps are incredibly powerful. But you shouldn't feel safe, as they could form a team and eventually destroy you so i recommend going with a celestial with drone or bullet weapon.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:** Slow tanks, drone tanks
* **Goes Well With:** Other minion tanks
* **Weak Against:** Tier 2 Celestials (excluding Asteroid), Rammers, Marksman

#### Build Advice

Your drones are kind of vulnerable, therefore use Saw so you can run away from danger and regenerate your drones when they've been destroyed.

## Trivia

* This tank was once nerfed in an unmentioned update.
* If you have at least 13 points in bullet penetration, a secret third minion can spawn.