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UEF Experimental Mobile Factory: Fatboy UEF Experimental Mobile Factory:  Fatboy
UEF Experimental Mobile Factory: Fatboy
Experimental, amphibious mobile factory. Equipped with battleship-level weapons and armor. Its shield consumes energy.[ e ]
Build costsEnergy icon -307500
Mass icon -24600
Time icon 18450
StorageEnergy icon 1000
Mass icon 200
Consumption
Energy icon -500
Build rate
Time icon180/s
Max healthHealth icon 12500 (Health icon+20/s)
Shield healthShield icon20000 (+64/sec)
Shield rebuildTime icon160 (+125/sec)
Shield radius25
Speed1.75 (Amphibious)
Veterancy UEF veteran icon Kills icon 25  (Health icon+15/s)
Intel (radius) Vision: 32
Water vision: 32
Weapon: Gauss Cannon x 4
Direct Fire - Projectile
Damage per second 750
Projectile damage 250
Damage radius 1.5
Salvo size 3 Projectiles
Reload time 1 seconds
Range 100
Weapon: Hells Fury Riot Gun x 2
Direct Fire - Projectile
Damage per second 450
Projectile damage 150
Rate of fire 3 Projectiles/s
Range 45
Weapon: Linked Railgun x 2
Anti Air - Projectile
Damage per second 60
Projectile damage 20
Salvo size 2 Projectiles
Rate of fire 1.5 salvos/s
Range 45
Anti Navy - Torpedo
Damage per second 75
Torpedo damage 75
Salvo size 4 Torpedos
Reload time 4 seconds
Range 40
Weapon: Death weapon
Damage 4000
Damage radius 7

The UEF Experimental Mobile Factory, nicknamed the Fatboy, is a UEF unit. This is an experimental unit, as well as a factory, direct fire unit, anti-air unit, defense unit and an air support unit.

This is one of the most versatile units in Supreme Commander, being amphibious, shielded, and equipped with a wide array of weapons including Hells Fury Riot Guns, Linked Railguns, Angler Torpedos, as well as four high powered triple Gauss Cannons. When on land and not moving, it can also produce any land vehicle the UEF posesses, enabling the Fatboy to create a land army or an air support squad within minutes. However, it is very slow moving and susceptible to heavy air units and requires support to increase its Survivability when the enemy has air dominance. Any weaknesses this extraordinary machine has it makes up in firepower and range.

The Fatboy is best used as defense against other ground Experimental units, or as a forward firebase. Its long range (it is only outranged by sea units, and the Scathis and Mavor) and incredible DPS make it very effective when kiting other Experimentals and smashing defenses. However, the Fatboy is particularly vulnerable to Aircraft, Submarines, and any other Experimentals that can get close enough to fire their main weapons.

It should be noted that the Fatboy has relatively low health for a mobile experimental; once its shields are down it's not as hard as one would think to destroy.

Tips

  1. The Fatboy is an excellent tool for smashing enemy lines; however, it can also be very useful for setting up firebases and building a strike force just outside the enemy base. It cannot build structures for a firebase, but it can build engineers to construct it. It can also rapidly adapt to any new threats by building units to counter the threat. For instance, it can build T2 anti-air in response to an air assault. (If you are up against T3 bombers, you probably will not have any time to do so.)
  2. The Fatboy may initially seem to be poor value compared to other factions' land experimentals, being comparatively expensive and ridiculously fragile compared even to the very cheap Cybran Monkeylord. However you have to understand that unlike the Monkeylord, Galactic Colossus, Ythotha and Megalith, the Fatboy is not a direct assault unit. Rather than storming into enemy lines soaking up damage and smashing everything around it, the Fatboy is meant to sit back out of range annihilating anything in reach with its devastating battery of Gauss Cannons. The shield is there to protect the Fatboy from lucky hits, air attacks and tactical missiles. Virtually no non-experimental unit can survive the blizzard of fire a Fatboy can lay down, so victory should be attained by a creeping barrage which slowly forces the enemy's frontline back, rather than a lightning strike which smashes a hole in their lines like other experimentals.
  3. The Fatboy's anti-air weapons are deactivated when underwater, making it especially vulnerable to torpedo bombers. Although the Fatboy is equipped with torpedoes, these are very weak, and you should not count on them. Unless you are hoping for a surprise attack (with low chances of success, due to lack of mobile stealth and low speed), you should never send the Fatboy on a trip underwater without naval and air support. When underwater, even a small squad of T1 submarines or T2 torpedo bombers can easily take it out. If the squad is big enough, then they can even do it before back-up has time to arrive.
  4. When your opponent has Fatboys underwater and you do not have anything to detect submerged units, use aircraft and look for the shimmering top of the shield. In most maps this will be exposed above the water and can also be damaged by any projectile, so remember this if you need to get through its shield when the experimental is underwater.
  5. It is very important for the Fatboy to be escorted with anti-air. Due to the Fatboy's direct fire power and range, the preferred strategy for taking aircraft out are either bombers or gunships. Without air defense, the Fatboy can be destroyed in a matter of seconds by a big enough aerial force, including any other flying experimentals.
  6. It is always smart to escort the Fatboy with engineers or an sACU or two, as these can help keep the Fatboy's shields up. It is always better to spend energy to keep the shield from coming down than having to repair the Fatboy, or losing it.
  7. The Fatboy's Ground Weapons are deactivated if it's producing Units. You need to stop production, since pausing has no effect. Remember this if you use the Fatboy as a unit producing base defense.
  8. Do not waste the production capacity of the Fatboy, as it is three times faster than a T3 Land Factory. If it is not fighting or moving let it produce units. On island maps it can be very useful to produce several Percivals, for they are amphibious and can support the Fatboy when he comes up the enemy coastline. Especially in those maps, naval defense is extremely necessary due to the non-naval defense of the expensive siege bots.
  9. If using the Fatboy's Ground Weapons or any time producing units, remember to face the Fatboy away from the enemy, that way the produced units are between the Fatboy and the approaching threat, allowing a few to be created and engage the enemy to distract and provide valuable time for the Fatboy to escape, or to keep them between the Fatboy and it's target. Those seconds can mean the difference between saving and losing the Fatboy, especially for those units that don't out range it, such as Colossi or Monkeylords.
  10. When told to attack a target, normally the Fatboy will turn and face its target, allowing only the two front gauss cannons to fire. Using a move command, however, it is possible to position the Fatboy in an angle in which three of its gauss cannons are abe to fire, thus increasing the damage output of the Fatboy and destroying the target faster.
  11. The Fatboy's shield works underwater, allowing it to protect units submerged on the ocean floor, i.e. ACUs, sACUs, Percivals, ect.
  12. To sum up all the other tips: Although the Fatboy is very versatile, without full support, it is very vulnerable to a wide range of attacks. If you send out a Fatboy alone, expect its immediate destruction from Gunships, or T1 subs if it is underwater. NEVER send it against a Ythotha, Galactic Colossus, Megalith, or Monkeylord when in direct combat as it would be reduced to rubble in seconds.

Trivia

The Fatboy is a reference to both nuclear bombs used during World War 2, Fat Man and Little Boy

Fatboys

Fatboys. Enough said.

Fatboy vs

A Fatboy attacking an unfortunate Omen Class

CZAR

A CZAR attacking a Fatboy with its Quantum Beam Generator. Goodbye Fatboy.

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An Idle Fatboy with its shields down

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