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Rafoca

Rafoca

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This may sound dumb, but I already have researched the tech to produce excavators and I created all buildings I could in my main colony, but I can't find how to "produce" excavators.

I appreciate any help. Thanks
 
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99% chance its that you havent built an Elite Barracks

if you mean Sappers instead of Excavator Tanks, they arnt buildable as far as i know, they only come in as operations.
 
Hey, guys. I still can't find how to build excavators. It's not the sapper, It's called Excavator and it's a tank as well =/

I don't remember if I had built an elite barracks, but I am able to produce a tier 3 unit that looks like a robot (forgot its name), but the excavators simply doesn't show in the list =/

Elite barracks is needed to produce tier 3? Because if it's needed, then I have it. I can't check anymore, cause the game is over lol
 
Hunnuli said:
The Baron? The Baron is a support unit and is built out of the specialist barracks. The Excavator as you said needs the Elite Barracks. So it is possible to be able to build the Baron but not the Excavator.
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Exactly! I have the Baron!

I'm clearly missing something here.

So I can't have both in the same colony? If I choose specialist training I cannot build elite barracks ?

Because in all of my colonies I have the Baron, but there is nothing left to build in terms of buildings at all, so I can't build elite military buildings
 
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Hunnuli said:
You should still be able to build the elite barracks once the Excavator is available. You just can't build it before you have something that requires it.

If the building isn't showing up . . . Do you have an old autosave hanging around that you could upload? I have never had an issue of the Elite Barracks not becoming available to build or the Elite unit not being in the list to build after the Elite Barracks is built.
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My man, thanks for trying to help!

I don't have an old save because it was a multi-player match, which was over last night. But I had the excavator research done ten tuns before the match ended and in every turn I would go to my main colony to see if I could build anything, but nothing was showing up =/

Amway, maybe in the next match lol
 
AoW PF cut down massively on the number of barracks. There is only 3:
Skirmisher (anything shooty that is not a core unit)
Specialsits (healers, supports, casters)
Elite (most T3 and all T4), wich you unlock with the first unit that needs them.
And you can totally cram them all into the same city.

However there are a handfull of units that can not be build conventionally. Promethean Plasmoids, anything from Xenoplague, Kir'Ko emergent. Only opeartions or effects of units can spawn them.
Finally there are a few units that are only combat summons. You get them via a Tactical Opeartion. And they despawn after combat. Wich also means modding them is not possible.

But the Excavator Tank is simply a Elite Unit, so the Elite baracks will be nessesary. It is worth pointing out that the Dvar Baron is a T3, but not an Elite. Simple Specialist Baracks work. That is rather rare and also means you did not had not built them for the Baron.
Of course for the Hero vehicole version, you equip it as a primary weapon. Note that you do not need the proper Baracks anywhere to equip a Vehicle onto a Hero.
 
The Founder said:
AoW PF cut down massively on the number of barracks. There is only 3:
Skirmisher (anything shooty that is not a core unit)
Specialsits (healers, supports, casters)
Elite (most T3 and all T4), wich you unlock with the first unit that needs them.
And you can totally cram them all into the same city.

However there are a handfull of units that can not be build conventionally. Promethean Plasmoids, anything from Xenoplague, Kir'Ko emergent. Only opeartions or effects of units can spawn them.
Finally there are a few units that are only combat summons. You get them via a Tactical Opeartion. And they despawn after combat. Wich also means modding them is not possible.

But the Excavator Tank is simply a Elite Unit, so the Elite baracks will be nessesary. It is worth pointing out that the Dvar Baron is a T3, but not an Elite. Simple Specialist Baracks work. That is rather rare and also means you did not had not built them for the Baron.
Of course for the Hero vehicole version, you equip it as a primary weapon. Note that you do not need the proper Baracks anywhere to equip a Vehicle onto a Hero.
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Thanks, buddy !

So I really think I had some problem with my game then. Because my city didn't show anything else for me to build. Do I have to unlock Elite Military building through research? That's the only thing I can think.

As I said, I unlocked Excavators through research, but I couldn't produce them at all, for they wouldn't even show on my colonies
 
Rafoca said:
So I really think I had some problem with my game then. Because my city didn't show anything else for me to build. Do I have to unlock Elite Military building through research? That's the only thing I can think.

As I said, I unlocked Excavators through research, but I couldn't produce them at all, for they wouldn't even show on my colonies
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The Elite barracks usually apppears the moment you get a unit that requires it.
If the Excavator needs the Elite Barracks, researching the Excavator should have unlocked it.
 
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