There are also home city upgrades for factories. The Factory has upgrades that affects itself and the units it creates. The only way to obtain a factory is from the cards: Factory, Robber Barons, Industrial Revolution and the Russian consulate. Factories are the only way to make these kinds of artillery in the New World. Most factories produce heavy cannon, but British factories produce rockets, and Ottoman factories produce Great Bombards. When you build a factory, you have the choice to change between producing food, wood, coin or cannon. Factories came in to common use in the eighteenth century, and as the Industrial RevolutionĬontinued, so did creation of factories in urban areas all over the western world.įactories are a powerful late game building that can supply a constant stream of resources or heavy artillery. The first known factory was the Venice Arsenal, which began mass-producing ships in 1104.
A factory is a building which produces goods on a large scale and is usually associated with machinery, division of labor, and workers who are paid a wage.
