Can you build multiple units at a time?

[Doc]

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[Drain]

In the original you could only queue 1 building/unit at a time. That didn't change until tiberian sun, which allowed up to 5. Here you can unlock it and basically do as many as you want. I really hope we get a similar remaster for tiberian sun next. That one would be worth the 20$ by itself.

[ConductorSavy TTV]

And just in case the OP was wanting to know about multiple building sources, the answer is no.

While you can build 1 building at a time, for infantry you can only build one at a time there as well. However, there is a queue system that appears to allow up to 99 units to be queued up, and it builds in order of the queue, so while it's still making 1 unit at a time you can queue it so it'll build a rocket infantry, then a medic, then a normal rifle infantry, etc. Same thing goes for the vehicles. The amount of war factories and barracks you make will not change that.

[residentleever]

Is this affected by having multiple construction yards like in Dune Legacy?

[Cat]

Originally posted by residentleever:

Is this affected by having multiple construction yards like in Dune Legacy?

Having multiple construction yards only speed up your construction time for structures, it does not give you additional build queues, although the computer players will gain extra queue for any production facility at normal production speed.

As for units, you can simultaneously build different types of unit types (infantry, ground vehicle, navy and airforce) but only one unit at a time each. Having multiple factories does not give extra queue, only speed up build/training time for units.

Building multiple units at a time based on the number of production buildings was introduced in Generals.

[UnBlessed]

Well, player can't build/train multiple building/unit at a time, but AI can, same to chronotank, player can't chronosphere chrono tanks at a time (if you select more than 2 chrono tanks and deploy them by hotkey, they'll attack each other.), but AI-Boost Mod's AI can chronosphere 4 chrono tanks (now maybe more, mod has improved) at a time.

BTW, multiple build can increase build/train speed, but that is not work on aftermath, aftermath's build/train limit is 2, so even you build 10 warfactory, training speed is same to 2 warfactory.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by UnBlessed:

Well, player can't build/train multiple building/unit at a time, but AI can

Small nuance there though: as Cat said, the AI does not get a speed boost for owning multiple factories of the same type.

[UnBlessed]

Well, AI can train 2 tanks at same time if AI has 2 warfactory.
Train 2 tank at same time will happen even with original, but build 2 building at same time you need to use AI-Boost mod.
Then another thing will happen on AI is barrack has no enough space for infantry, but AI still can train infantry, then if you kill infantry at barrack entrance, and that AI is Soviet/Ukraine, you'll get free giant bomb (Grenadier dies will explode, then lots grenadiers die at same time can cause huge damage.)

BTW, you can capture AI's tank or other things come out warfactory, engineer capture warfactory, and warfactory just has new tank/ore truck come out, then you can get free tank/ore truck, same to helipad, I'm not sure this will work on barrack or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZL8naHYYh4

[Cat]

Originally posted by UnBlessed:

Well, AI can train 2 tanks at same time if AI has 2 warfactory.

Well well well, this was covered already. AI building multiple units on multiple factories at the same time is probably to make it "fair" since they can't tell which factory is the best one to be put on primary. This is most annoying when assaulting an enemy base in skirmish with 10 helipads and they suddenly got 10 longbows spawn at the same time.
It's not a big deal in later C&C games since separate build queues on different factories exist.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by UnBlessed:

Well, AI can train 2 tanks at same time if AI has 2 warfactory.
Train 2 tank at same time will happen even with original, but build 2 building at same time you need to use AI-Boost mod.

Eh? Not in C&C1. In C&C1, if the AI owns multiple construction yards, it'll build multiple buildings simultaneously. In the normal missions, anyway...