01
Hull
The base mass: structure, armour, and the hardpoints that allow everything after it.
THE WORKSHOP
Nothing off the shelf.
FERROCADE has no unit list to pick from. It has a workshop, where you fit a hull, a drive and a turret together and end up with something that did not exist before — carrying a weight, a fuel appetite and a price that follow from exactly those parts.
FULL SIZE
01 · SIX STEPS
From an empty bench to a production model.
The designer walks you along a track instead of sitting you in front of a form. Every step changes the vehicle on the turntable at once, and the readout on the right keeps up.
02
Drive
Wheels, tracks, hover or legs — speed against toughness against terrain.
03
Turret
The vehicle's job. 37 options, shelved by role exactly as in game.
04
Modules
Four add-ons that sharpen the role: radar, signature damping, fuel, night vision.
05
Hardpoints
Armour, optics, concealment, magazine — whatever slots the hull offers.
06
Name & build
A design gets a name and moves into the garage.
Nine numbers, no star ratings.
The analysis drawer keeps speed, power-to-weight, kinetic and thermal armour, structure, reach, firepower, magazine and fuel range on screen at all times — as bars against everything else you could have built. A heavy turret on a light hull is visible there, well before it stalls in the field.
02 · THREE DESIGNS
Same parts, three entirely different vehicles.
Scout, supply, advance — the three things FERROCADE turns on. Each of these is three parts from the catalogue below, and the bars are the actually composed values.
SCOUT
Scout
Scout Buggy
Fast Wheels
Sensor ArrayFast, quiet and practically defenceless. It does not shoot — it makes sure everything else knows what to shoot at. Without one, your artillery fires into fog.
SUPPLY
Tanker
Transport HullWheels
Supply CarrierDefenceless as well, and still the vehicle that decides the advance. It carries diesel and ammunition to the one place both run out: the front.
ADVANCE
Breakthrough tank
Bastion Hull
Heavy Tracks
Heavy CannonHeavily armoured, slow, expensive — and for exactly that reason dependent on a supply line that holds. It breaks the line the first two found.
03 · HULLS
The base mass.
The hull decides how much a vehicle absorbs, how heavy it is — and, through its hardpoints, how much room you have left afterwards.
Design references from the workshop folder — concept images, not game graphics. For what the parts look like in a fight, see the shots on the front page.
Recon Frame
The cheapest way in: thinly armoured, light, with exactly one slot for optics or concealment
Line Chassis
The workhorse — enough armour to stay, plus one armour and one utility slot
Bastion Hull
Evenly heavy against both kinetic and thermal fire; the first hull that survives a breakthrough
Scout Buggy
Almost no armour, but innately harder to spot and fast enough to get away
Titan Hull
Three times a line hull’s structure and room for heavy kit — paid for in mass and crude
Cyborg Frame
A compact, cheap frame for saturation: many of them cost less than one heavy vehicle
Transport Hull
Built to carry rather than to fight — logistics slots, plenty of volume, no ambition at the front
Fortress Hull
The thickest hull in the game, with its own slot for a secondary weapon; expensive and slow
Stealth Hull
Light, expensive and hard to find — the hull you drive into the back of a supply line with
04 · DRIVES
What runs underneath.
Every drive is a trade: speed against toughness, and sometimes against being able to get there at all. Mass slows things down — a heavy hull on fast wheels does not go as fast as the wheels could.
Wheels
The default: fast enough, cheap, available from the start — and soft the moment something hits
Half-Track
Wheels in front, tracks behind — a little slower than wheels, noticeably tougher
Tracks
The compromise most fighting vehicles run: slow, robust, dependable off-road
Hover
Nearly as fast as wheels, and the only light drive that crosses open water
Heavy Tracks
The toughest running gear in the game, and the slowest — for hulls that were never going to dodge
Fast Wheels
Markedly faster than standard wheels and thinner still — scouting and raids
Walker Legs
Legs get where tracks bog down; tougher than wheels, slower than tracks
Amphibious Tracks
Tracks that swim — quicker than heavy tracks, and rivers stop being borders
Turbo Boost
The fastest ground gear, with the thinnest structure in the game: everything staked on speed
concept pending
VTOL-Rotor
Not running gear but flight — ignores terrain entirely and lands on a rearm pad to refuel
05 · TURRETS
The job.
37 turrets, grouped the way the designer's role tabs group them. Not all of them shoot: a supply carrier, a construction rig or an ELINT receiver take the same slot a cannon would — and often decide a fight more clearly.
Design references from the workshop folder — concept images, not game graphics. For what the parts look like in a fight, see the shots on the front page.
Machine guns
Machine Gun
The baseline weapon: high rate of fire up close, effective against infantry and thin plate
Twin Machine Gun
Two barrels, nearly double the rate: the answer to swarms of light vehicles
Gatling Gun
The highest rate of fire in the game; eats ammunition as fast as supply can bring it
Cannons
Medium Cannon
The all-rounder against vehicles — single hard hits instead of a burst
Heavy Cannon
Bigger calibre, longer arm, heavier supply — the mid-game breakthrough turret
Thermobaric Gun
Overpressure instead of impact — largely ignores kinetic armour and works over a small radius
Heavy AP Gun
The pure kinetic penetrator: one very hard hit at long range, slow to reload
Light Autocannon
Rapid fire against light armour: barely dearer than a machine gun, far more penetrating
Heavy Autocannon
A bigger autocannon with a little fragmentation — the answer to mixed formations
Anti-tank
Lancer AT
Shaped charge against armour: eats thick plate, wasted on soft targets
Heavy ATGM
Heavy guided missiles against the thickest hulls, with a little effect around the impact
Recoilless AT
A recoilless tube fired from a set-up position: cheap against tanks, helpless against speed
Guided ATGM
Guided anti-tank with more reach than the heavy variant — dearer, more precise
Artillery & launchers
Missile Launcher
Guided rockets with a blast radius at medium range — expensive per shot, heavy on supply
Field Artillery
The first real indirect gun: enormous reach, but it has to stop and set up first
Heavy Mortar
High-angle fire with a wide blast that softens a position before anyone drives into it
Napalm Launcher
Incendiary over an area — devastating against infantry and positions, blunt against armour
Raketenartillerie
Salvo fire at long range with a wide blast; needs setup time and a target from somebody else
Towed Howitzer 155mm
A towed gun with long reach; it takes a while to be ready to fire, and longer to be gone
Light Mortar
The cheap way into indirect fire — short setup, small blast, affordable supply
Heavy MLRS
A whole tube pack at once: the widest area in the game, with the setup time to match
Tactical Ballistic
The longest-reaching weapon there is — it reaches targets your recon still has to find
Thermobaric Rocket
A thermobaric rocket at medium range: a wide area without the vehicle having to stop
Anti-Radiation Missile
A missile that rides an enemy radar emission home — the answer to a sensor line
Decoy Rocket
Fires decoys rather than explosives and draws defensive fire onto targets that are not there
Air defence
Flak Cannon
Fast fragmentation rounds against anything airborne — a stopgap at best on the ground
AA Missile
Guided missiles against air targets, with markedly more reach than a flak cannon
Long-Range SAM
The air defence with the longest arm; it engages aircraft well before they see their target
Sensors
Sensor Array
Not a weapon but eyes: widens vision and makes targets visible to your own artillery
ELINT Receiver
A purely passive receiver: it takes bearings on enemy emitters and stays invisible doing it
Fire-Control Radar
Fire control for a networked defence: it does not shoot, it directs the ones that do
Support
Supply Carrier
Drives diesel and ammunition to the front — the vehicle that makes long advances possible at all
Repair Turret
Puts damaged vehicles back together in the field instead of sending them all the way home
Störsender
Not a weapon: lays a jamming bubble over the area and shortens enemy sensor reach
Kommandostand
Turns a vehicle into a commander — attached units fight better and share its vision
Point-Defense APS
Close-in defence that intercepts incoming rounds before they reach your own armour
Construction
Construction Rig
Builds, repairs and demolishes. Without a construction rig, nothing grows
06 · MODULES & HARDPOINTS
The finishing pass.
Modules are four add-ons available to any vehicle. Hardpoint components only fit slots of their own class, and how many a hull offers is listed with it above. Both cost money and weight — and weight costs speed and diesel.
Modules
Radar-Paket+50 % scouting reach (spotting radius ×1.5)
Signaturdämpfung+40 concealment — harder to locate as long as it holds fire
Zusatztank+50 % maximum diesel
NachtsichtFull scouting at night as well (research: night optics)
Hardpoint components
AufsatzpanzerungArmour+2/+2 armour, bolted on
VerbundplattenArmour+4/+3 armour (composite alloy I)
ReaktivpanzerungArmour+5/+6 armour, reactive (composite alloy II)
Optik-VisierOptics+15 % scouting (gunner’s optics)
Sensor-SuiteOptics+35 % scouting (sensor net)
ZielrechnerOptics+50 % scouting (fire-control computer)
TarnnetzConcealment+20 concealment (camouflage netting)
StörkörperConcealment+35 concealment (ECM decoys)
AdaptivtarnungConcealment+50 concealment (adaptive camouflage)
MunitionsgestellMagazine+20 % magazine (ammunition rack)
Erweitertes MagazinMagazine+40 % magazine (extended magazine)
AutoladersystemMagazine+60 % magazine (autoloader)
Koaxial-MGSecondaryCoaxial machine gun (secondary, close range)
Zwillings-AutokanoneSecondaryPintle autocannon (secondary, armoured)
NebelwerferConcealmentActive smoke launcher (a concealment burst on command)
The building part is yours.
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