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    What the FOB

    Please, budding engineers, gaze upon this FOB and take notes:



    It is compartmentalized.
    It uses plasteel only where necessary to ease movement.
    Cades are not flush with corners preventing xenos from hacking them apart in cover.
    Ingress-Egress points in different compartments try to line up with each other so it's faster to move through them.
    There is room for the tank to move in and out of the FOB.

    It is not a perfect FOB, but it is a good FOB.

    This is better than having 1 fob compartment with 3 layers of cades. Please learn from this example of FOB building.

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    2 layers right adjacent to each other is the maximum layering you should do on each of these compartments. Any more and you can't shoot over them, any further away and you can't shoot over them. This is a good FOB that doesn't overuse materials.

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    I have only one complaint, the southmost sentry is right next to the barricades, letting xenos slash it.

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    You forgot the tip of "make sandbags and use them to plug holes" if xenos decide to just acid / crusher all the walls in any of the flanks / South FOB, such as the r-walls at South Cargo.

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    Damn, that's a pretty sexy FOB. It's too bad Trijent has way too many attack points that this FOB is basically impossible to hold.

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    Here's the FOB I supervised as Bravo SL, some issues but otherwise 7/10
    Last edited by Swagbag; 04-11-2019 at 04:48 PM.

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    I like this FOB, it's good lookong and functional, and isn't the same FOB that gets built every other round. That being said, I miss the old days of superfobs from right when alpha came out. Sometimes I even miss the shield protected engineering fobs from Nostromo.

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    marines need to understand that metal cades are useless for FOBs. They may be a good placeholder but when you get access to sandbags or more plasteel or even the deployable cades you should replace the metal ones because when queen goes frontlines the metal cades will literally become completely useless, especially with ravagers.

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    Shit son, good FoB
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    Here's a better pic of the Trijent Dam FoB I worked on as Swagbag showcased, I was quite happy with the outcome.

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    I enjoy demonstrating the compartmentalization method of FoB construction, and as a Synth I generally am more trusted to use Metal and Plasteel than Engineers would be.

    I found this design below, which I helped in a minor way, to be a good standard for FoB construction and has oft been copied.

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