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Giant railguns are kinda cool, but somewhat impractical for the scale of FH. Some those monsters took longer to reload than many FH games last (Gustav/Dora had a peak ROF of 3 rounds an hour, but rarely fired more than 10 in a single day).

But, there are still a lot of cool scenarios that could be built around armored trains as the following excerpt (about a Soviet armored train) - illustrates:

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In the morning mist of October 30th, the armored trains took their positions. By 11:00, when the mist lifted, №717 was attacked by 18 planes. Constantly maneuvering, the armored train was able to shot down two of its attackers, when German tanks appeared nearby. During this very long day, the armored train was able to repulse three German tank attacks. Two of its armored wagons were destroyed, the rail line around it was heavily damaged, so it was not able to move. With nightfall, when all its guns were destroyed or damaged, the armored train commander I.I.Fandej ordered the remnants of crew to retreat to Alagir. During 7 hours of battle the armored train managed to destroy or damage 22 German tanks and armored carriers.

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From http://www.tdg.nu/resources/articles...d%20Trains.htm --about 2/5ths of the way down the page.