Freighter

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BMS - Ironship
Information
Vehicle Type	Freighter
Health	2600
Disabled Under	50% health
Resistance	Large Ship
Repair Cost	100
Crew	1
Passengers	1
Inventory Slots	10
Production Site	Shipyard
Cost	500
Packaged Size	Unpackageable
Fuel Capacity	300L /

“	The Bassett Motor Society’s Ironship-class shipping vessel is used to freight shippable goods and heavy vehicles.	„
	— In-game description

The BMS - Ironship (also known as a Freighter) is a large, faction-neutral logistical vehicle capable of transporting up to 5 Shippables.

General Info

Crew

The BMS - Ironship holds one passenger, and houses a crew of one soldier:

• Driver (Seat 1)
  • Controls the movement of the vehicle, and can see the remaining fuel in the vehicle
  • Able to deploy/undeploy the vehicle - press F
  • Can activate the sound horn - press LMB
  • Can open/close Drawbridge (when next to it) - press E
• Passenger (Seat 2)
  • An enclosed seat used to hold/transport players

Armament

The BMS - Ironship is not equipped with a main armament.

Inventory

It has 10 inventory slots that can hold any item, and a loading area that can hold five shippables of any size.

Engine & Mobility

• Fuel Tank: 300 L of Diesel or Petrol
  
• Fuel Consumption Rate (on water): 3L / min (Autonomy: 100:00 min)
  
• Speed (on water): 5.5 m/s
  
• Can move on water without fuel, or when disabled, but at drastically reduced speed
• Can ram and instantly destroy Field Bridges over water

Health & Armor

The BMS - Ironship has 2600 HP and is disabled under 50% health. It has "Large Ship" armor resistance: it can soak small arms fire, shrapnel, 12.7mm machine guns, and it is immune to Flamethrowers. It's also fairly resistant to anti-tank weaponry. High explosive shells are very effective against it.
It takes 100 Basic Materials to fully repair it from 1% to 100% health with a Hammer. Its health can be instantly repaired at a Shipyard for 50 Basic Materials.

Interactions

The BMS - Ironship can be interacted in a few ways:

• Open/Close Drawbridge (when next to it): E
• Up to 5 Shippables of any size can be placed inside the cargo hold
  • Open/Close the cargo hold with F
  • Shippables must be loaded/offloaded with a Crane - the player must have access to the Freighter
  • When the cargo hold contains multiple shippables, the one that was placed first is picked up. So if you load the wrong shippable you'll have to empty the entire cargo to remove it.

Production

Structure	Input(s)	Output	Time
Mass Production Factory	1500 x Basic Materials	Crate of 3 x  BMS - Ironship	06:56:40
Shipyard	500 x Basic Materials	BMS - Ironship	100 Hammer hits

Storage & Transport

The BMS - Ironship can be stored in a Seaport.

It cannot be packaged or transported by another vehicle. As such, it must be driven to its destination, regardless of where it is.

Tactics

The BMS - Ironship is a large logistical ship specially designed to transport large quantities of equipment and supplies from backline logistical towns (also known as 'Logi Hubs') to midline Seaports, where its cargo can be unloaded, and either stored in them, or transported to the frontlines. While freighters are supposed to be unloaded at Seaports, they can be unloaded anywhere, as long as there is a nearby crane in order to pick up the contents inside of it.

The ship itself has an inventory that can hold some items, but its true strength comes with the large amount of shippables it can carry. Loading and unloading the cargo is done much more easily at a Seaport because it has Stationary Cranes and can store all shippables.

While long distance deliveries from Seaport to Seaport are the primary role of the freighter, it can be used in resource collections, by bringing gathered resources from Resource Fields to Seaports (cargo full of Resource Containers that are then transported to a Refinery by Flatbed)

Due to their size and durability, freighters are often used to block Bridges and narrow waterways, to prevent access by landing fleets and partisans.

Trivia

• Prior to Update 0.30, the BMS - Ironship didn't have a Passenger seat.
• Prior to Update 0.46 ('Entrenched'), the BMS - Ironship had to be researched in order to be constructed. This was later changed in order to improve logistics capabilities, especially during early-game.
• Prior to Update 1.54 ('Naval Warfare'), the BMS - Ironship was the largest Naval Vehicle in the game. This changed with the introduction to Large Ships, which drastically changed naval combat and logistics, especially during late-game.

Gallery

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  The BMS - Ironship from the front

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  The BMS - Ironship from the rear

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  A BMS - Ironship with a Flood Mk. I loaded inside of it

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  Multiple freighters loaded by a Crane with packaged Containers

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  The cog symbol appearing when a crane can store a shippable in the open cargo hold

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  The BMS - Ironship in a showcase

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  Concept art of the BMS - Ironship

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  Concept art of various potential Ironship designs

External Link

• Foxhole - Freighter Vehicle by Clapfoot - 3D model - Sketchfab