Railroad guns are being way over-used, tend to dominate, and are very ahistorical.
Please could Bytro tone them down somewhat. My suggestions and any one or more would help are:
No need at all. My reaction to seeing an enemy build railroad guns is the same as to one building militia: "Heh, this is going to be an easy win". They are way to immobile to be actually useful: air, missiles, or a determined light tank rush will take them out easily.
Interesting. I agree that they have been made a stronger part of the arsenal in the 1.5 version, especially since the SBDE is now 10 for them vs. the two in the older version.
I think the suggestions related to pushing the research option out a few days, increasing cost of production and extending their build time will definitely slow down their usage.
With the advent of how they calculate hitpoints to a cumulative model, 10 railguns can have a devastating impact on just about any stack of troops in its path.
I'm not sure what the solution should be, but I agree something should be done. I do usually rush them with tanks or tank destroyers, but if they are protected, they are a big threat, and don't match up with historical reality.
Maybe in Rokpossovski's world he doesn't care, but there are a whole load of us that DO. This game is getting more realistic as time goes by, with 1.5 being a whole leap forward. But the railroad gun is one thing going the other way. I am trying to think what railroad guns were used for in 'real' WW2 and at the moment all I can think of is a few shells lobbed over the Dover straits from the Calais region, plus being used (again not wholly usefully) at various sieges, Leningrad, and maybe Sebastopol come to mind.
Higher Infrastructure Requirement and/or anything past Day 16 - 20+ would do just fine.
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