Turret / machinegun wagon for train?

[Swatti]

I like the new artillery but i was hoping for wagon able to defend the train from attackers on the way... Sadly this the arty cant do.

I tried the "grid-thingy" and it was just OP. I prefer a dedicated gun-wagon.

[cesnah]

Turrets, flamethrowers, lasers; all weapons should be mountable on the train!! A self sufficient armored train would be so much fun!

[Swatti]

Build "slots" to mount what ever gun-turret there is would be nice... That would support turret-mods nicely.

[Antarata]

A flatbed carriage that you can build on like normal land would be cool...

[Maxzippo]

I really want this too

[dragonsphotoworks]

+1

[ThreeTreeCheese]

+1 Sounds awesome

[Felixblucher]

Sounds interesting, I am all for it.

[frumple]

There is/was one on the forum, but i'm not sure it's still supported. In my experience, while it did not suck, it wasn't fun to use and was hopeless against stronger or larger swarms.

Fun in theory, meh in practise.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

+1 idea, I woudl like a vanilla gun turret wagon, nto sure how laser owudl get powered, and flame turret might be a bit sloppy. I'd also like to see a cannon turret in vanilla, somethign to fill the gap between laser turrets and artillery.

[dr46onfusion]

Would be interesting if you can turn a turret into a vehicle where you can ride in it, then you could do interesting thing like configure it...

Actually... Since we have modular armor with parts in it, it's quite possible for someone to take the turret and 'mod' in a basic component sheet to boost turret functions, like making it so auto-aiming a turret requires you to put in a Auto-Aim module.

You could equip a Laser turret to instead of shooting at enemies, have a 'Recharge' Module in it that charges players with energy capacity or bots, or even other turrets that uses electricity, at a range.

It also would be fun to turn a machine gun turret into a shotgun turret.

[Swatti]

I'd be interested in more "simplistic" models of several "tech tiers"

T1: One gun, short, easy to make, early stuff
T2: Two guns, larger, etc

Since these have shorter time to attack targets on the move, they would have to be quite powerfull compared to wall-turrets.

Also, if this were a mod, it would have to modify the RAILS too to make sure they dont get blown up by cannons for instance.

[Maxzippo]

there is a guy that made wagons with turrets^^ armored train mod, enjoy!

[Swatti]

Originally posted by maxzippo:

there is a guy that made wagons with turrets^^ armored train mod, enjoy!

Tried that. Quite underwhelming and underpowered. Also, the rocket-turrets destroy rails.

You place eighter a gun-turret or a rocket-turret into the wagon and it "turns" into a X-turret wagon... I tried adding more than one gun-turret, it did not work nor change appearence.

If it were just pre-set turrets with each wagon and each wagon craftable separate, it would be fine... It aint.

EDIT: if the guy has page for the mod, do pass the link, i wanna give some feedback.

[Manu]

https://mods.factorio.com every mod has a discussion tab where you can communicate with the author

[БОТ Лапки]

Где этот вагон что может перевозить танк, машину на своём специальном вагоне?