Meaning of Artillery Train?

[Raphael]

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-200
It says an Idea is an Artillery Train
How should it work?
I love war trains and would like more information

[Roxor128]

Personally, I think it should be just a bed you can put any three 2*2 turrets on. Or maybe two laser turrets and a generator.

[Morphic]

Originally posted by Roxor128:

Personally, I think it should be just a bed you can put any three 2*2 turrets on. Or maybe two laser turrets and a generator.

Oh man that would be sweet! And a mechanic change like that would lay the foundation for Boats/Ships thus making "Water Worlds" a neat frontier to play on.

Though, being the pessimist I am, I'd imagine the Artillery Train would effectively be a Turret "wagon" that shoots Tank Shells, thus auto-shooting any nearby enemies like a Tank.

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by Setzway:

Originally posted by Roxor128:

Personally, I think it should be just a bed you can put any three 2*2 turrets on. Or maybe two laser turrets and a generator.

Oh man that would be sweet! And a mechanic change like that would lay the foundation for Boats/Ships thus making "Water Worlds" a neat frontier to play on.

Though, being the pessimist I am, I'd imagine the Artillery Train would effectively be a Turret "wagon" that shoots Tank Shells, thus auto-shooting any nearby enemies like a Tank.

I think by artylery train they more meant railway gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun#/media/File:12inchRailwayHowitzersMkVCatterick12December1940.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun#/media/File:French_Railway_Gun_27627u.jpg

[juliejayne]

A proper artillery train would have a long range, longer than anything we have now. It would fire shells at enemy bases, and the biters would then probably come running towards it.

[Lingluo]

Originally posted by juliejayne:

A proper artillery train would have a long range, longer than anything we have now. It would fire shells at enemy bases, and the biters would then probably come running towards it.

It should have 2 weapons:1.auto laser/machine gun for biters 2.long range,massive damage artillery.Must be manually controled(so that it won't fire at nearby biters and kill itself).I think the easiest way to implement the artillery is to make it a super long range rocket launcher and then launch nukes with it.Also with a mobile radar for targeting.

[Kai]

It would be interesting to put flamer turrets on a armored train since it would allow you to keep most of those aliens at bay unless they are behemoths. You'd burn down forests you pass through though.

[IrrelevantScrub]

Originally posted by Kai:

It would be interesting to put flamer turrets on a armored train since it would allow you to keep most of those aliens at bay unless they are behemoths. You'd burn down forests you pass through though.

fluid wagons can carry the flamer fual for the turrents then, or use barrels like ammo mags.

these are all great ideas, even if they dont add these specific designs to the game theres alot of good mod ideas in here

[Raphael]

Originally posted by wyp020610:

Originally posted by juliejayne:

A proper artillery train would have a long range, longer than anything we have now. It would fire shells at enemy bases, and the biters would then probably come running towards it.

It should have 2 weapons:1.auto laser/machine gun for biters 2.long range,massive damage artillery.Must be manually controled(so that it won't fire at nearby biters and kill itself).I think the easiest way to implement the artillery is to make it a super long range rocket launcher and then launch nukes with it.Also with a mobile radar for targeting.

Or it would cost very much and would have three guns, the main rocket gun in the middle for far range and two exchangable turrets on either end (or just one), this weapon could be exchanged between a machine gun (three/two slots for ammo), laser gun (grid for generator or batteries) and a flamethrower (three/two slots for flamethrower ammo or oil barrels)