Heavy Gustav - First time out of the shed 

A few people asking for the save file...factoriomaps.com/user/themodernsophist/The-Grid/2018-09-16/index.html#12/0.0000/0.0000/Day

If you listen carefully, you can hear the CPU crying.

"Sir, why do you need a massive train that spans several miles that is also covered in artillery pieces?" "Self defence"

2:40 - Local train: "Welp, that's it for the day then."

Headline: Three people die from dehydration at rail crossing.

When your entire base's train network is forced to grind to a hault for your artillery train you know that shit's about to go down.

"Autosave. Please come back next year."

"Boss?" "Yes?" "Do you think we're overdoing it here?" "Ah. You must be the new guy. Also, no. No I do not."

And here we see what happens when a factorio player is left alone for too long.

"Son, the iron ore smelting is down again." "Uhhh... I can explain"

"This is my factorio base, and my defense train, Heavy Gustav." This isn't defense, it's all out genocide. And that, that I don't mind. Only good bug is a dead bug.

2:40 Press F to pay respects

I clicked on this video thinking "well how heavy can gustav be, its just a train..." Boy was I naive.

"And? How do you unveil the map?" "Using 1260 artilleries on a train" "Wat........"

I think this constitutes some sort of violation of the Geneva Convention.

This train is so heavy I bet its travel causes tectonic shifting to occur. Whole damn continent starts tilting? Blame Heavy Gustav.

Imagine waiting to cross that railroad

This is what happens when you play snake too well.

Gustav: *moves* Cpu: W u bully me ?

You developed locomotives to support your gigabase to launch research satellites to assist your train production? I'm not sure that's how the Industrial Revolution was meant to go, but it's probably too late to turn back now.

We should use this as a benchmark

Just imagine the bugs running to another base like, "Help, we are being attacked", and base 2 is just being bombed to oblivion as well.

Times like this, I'm reminded of the flavor text of the MTG Card Endless Wurm; "Ages ago, a party of elves took cover to let one pass. They're still waiting."

Damn, it's just like launching a giant lethal weapon that requires shutting down the entire factory This is just a fucking epic

I'm imagining computers of the future being able to run this no problem at 120fps/120ups. And it's a beautiful thing.

8:20 and thus with a groan did old gustav come to rest, to play his symphony of the gods. Thunder roiling along invested steppe. Fear not deliverance.

Aliens: *hears distant rumbling* nervous chuckle *im in trouble*

Wow good job! I couldnt believe that only half of the train got out of the station.....

Shame theres no shade to fight in when you blot out the sun.

CPU: PLEASE HELP ME!! *But no one hears*

I liked the part where he reached the end of the line with half the train still in its holding pen.

2:40 Train is like: "Awww man, here we go again"

There is no such thing as "overkill", there is only "open fire" and "time to reload".

"i might have attracted a few thousand bugs...." "let them try....."

Legend has it that Orks felt like this was almost, almost close to enough dakka.

Oh look into the sky, there is a big flock of birds coming ...

I woke up and promised myself `I'm not gonna play factorio today`, then youtube recommends this. f***k, addiction is real!

Gives a whole new scale to "circling the wagons." I think he did a great of of making sure the fire did not let up. It looks like half the train is firing on the perimeter, while the other half is reloading inside the base. Then they switch. LOL

Dude... That's nuts beyond imagination. And I love it.

Dispatcher: what level priority is this train? Me: 1. Dispatcher: acknowledged, all traffic will be halted for this train to pass

it's like the unholy cross between an artillery battery and a tape measure...

All the artillery... *IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!* **sniff**

Bless the coming and going of Him,may His passing cleanse the world.

At first I saw the trains going past saying no path no path and I was like oh come on, it can't be that bad and then later on he zoomed out and showed that it was STILL LEAVING THE SPIRAL

"Heavy" is not enough to describe this massive godly beast :D Btw I love your base style and pattern build/concrete, your organization is so enjoyable (*-*) I love how your train can be arrived at destination and at departure at the same time haha so many bugs cleanup with good ol' shells in the face :p I hope you got a better gaming station, you deserve it.

"Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy biter bases is insignificant in comparison with the Force."

I mean when you're literally unspooling the artillery mega-train, it's surely a good sign.

Player: Ok, let's move out! CPU: Hello darkness my old friend...

UPS like that is the reason I probably won't ever build a base this huge

the amount of work, engineering and planning this must have take!! This is amazing!

Kid bug: "Woah daddy! Look at those wierd looking birds coming this way! Can I keep one as a pet please?!?!" Daddy bug: "Son, I love you..."

I dont understand anything of this game, but damn thats large

Now this is what I call perimeter defense!

"They say the best weapon is the one you don't have to fire. I, respectfully disagree. I say the best weapon, is the one you only need to fire *once* . That's how dad did it, that's how the Engineer does it,.... and it worked out pretty well so far. Find an excuse to let one of these babies off a chain, and I personally guarantee, the damn biters won't even want to come out of their nests. _zzzzzzt!_ *FSHHHHWOOSH!* For your consideration..... the Gustav." *_KHABOOOOOM!_*

Personally, I find Factorio terrifying, and this is why. Xenomorphs in Alien Isolation? Yawn, please. Essentially self replicating and self supporting base than spans miles upon miles with not a tree or plant in sight? That is the stuff of nightmares for me.

*sees your rail line is larger than my entire factory* It's videos that this that make me realize "I don't think I'm thinking big enough in this game."

Oh lawd, he's coming.

This is some heavy heavy thought out work, its is so badass. You got a sub for life brother.

I laughed my ass off when you see it is still coiled around the start. Causing an apocalypse and it hasnt even left the parking lot

My PC started to lag when I've just clicked on PLAY button of this video.

I love how the train is so long, it is blocking itself from going back to its parking slot.

Bet you this train still suffers fewer delays than the National Railroads

some people build computers in factorio, others test weapons of mass destruction.. this man build the wiper of all beings.

Very impressive! Well done my fellow Kiwi! :D

"The bugs rule this world." The Fat Controller laughed, "You are wrong."

When it first zoomed out I shat myself

The factory must grow

It's beautiful!

Legend has it that those trains are still waiting at the junctions to this very day

Sit down for a while and let me regale you with a short tale. Twas the summer of '19, and I had an internship, and at that internship I watched a lot, and I mean a LOT of Factorio gameplay. Towards the end of the summer, I had acquired enough funds from said internship where I watched Factorio vidoes to do something I never do: buy something nice for myself. I decided that the one thing I really wanted was a new, beastly gaming laptop, since I have been gaming on potato graphics for my whole life and I got sick of it. I picked one out and bought it. This is the most expensive thing I have ever bought for myself, cost a whole paycheck and then some but it was worth it. Now, I have a tradition for my computers: I name them after awesome weapons. My last computer was named Mjolnir, and the one before that was Excalibur. But this one, being the first ever brand new, top-of-the-line, as beast-mode as a laptop can get without being ridiculous, I knew that fantasy weapons simply wouldn't do. I needed something real, something that caused men to quake in their boots and tremble at its coming. I searched far and wide for a suitable weapon, and after hours of searching I rediscovered the artillery train with the perfect name: the Schwerer Gustav. German for "Heavy Gustav", it was a railway cannon used by the Wehrmacht, and the largest gun ever used in combat. It seems like divine providence that I would be watching this, a video about an enormous artillery train named Heavy Gustav in Factorio, on my laptop named the Schwerer Gustav that I bought with money from a job where I spent all my downtime watching Factorio videos. Keep dropping the lead rain on those bugs, Tidy Kiwi.

it is such a waste of materials and yet, it is so beautiful

The fact it hasnt even left its starting cell is mind boogling. Also like the fact that killometers of landscape covered in concrete is considered normal. though the pattern is nice

Ok the rest i get. But the way you double-coiled the train is just fantastically chaotic

Area 51 :"We finallay defended our aliens." Heavy Gustav : *exists* Area 51 :"Did someone say aliens?! I mean oilreserves..."

Man, it's huge!

"Don't you know we're at WAR?!?!"

This is EPIC! I would love to see the revenge waves attacking your walls and getting destroyed while Heavy Gustav fires over their heads.

"Nuclear launch detected"

The UPS problem is not so bad if you play it at 2x speed.

Once an oil convoy came through town. Thing must’ve been ten miles long. The whole town pretty much shut down as there’s less than ten points in the town that go over or under the rail line. Best part was when I was at a rail crossing and pretty much blocked in. After a literal hour the motorists all got out and had a party. That convoy was still smaller than this fucking thing.

Oh that's how inquisitorial train looks like

Watching the Yellow shells fly at Red bugs, is like Missile Command from the other perspective.

"I've seen some shit, and I know exactly how to deal with it" -Literally all Deathworld players

the feeling when you realize he did not left the depo after 6 minutes on the way.

Thomas had made a new friend in Germany.

I have a, MUCH, smaller train I use for this job, haha. I send four artillery cannons to fire on the new regions I want to claim. My outer wall has cannons on it already, but by sending the train deep into new territory, I can clear it out. Still, my cannons don’t fire nearly as far as yours do..

Very impressive.

Deadlocking your entire factory to own the biters

_sniff_ This reminds me of my artillery walls in SupCom

I think I'm gonna be sick 🤮... The sheer power. The beasts were off the radar living in ignorance, which was bliss... Until they weren't.

I see you traded UPS for this train :D

That was glorious

oh jesus....well done!

ok, now show us what has changed in this 4 years. Haha would love to see how far it has come.

now thats an artillery train

"No framerates were hurt during the making of this movie"

thats one way to get rid of aliens

Welp... so much for the existence of Biters. Really what were the devs thinking giving us players ARTILLERY?

I like how time stops when it shoots.

"That's a lotta damage!"