Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: August 27, 2014, 12:49:03 PM »Railguns can't reach more tracking speed than 4000 km/s on my ships, so I wonder if they are of any use against missiles ? Or is there any other way to rise their TS.
Tracking speed of a fixed gun (as the railgun) is capped at either the speed of the ship it is mounted on or the base tracking speed you have researched, whichever is larger.
The railgun has only 1/4 the tracking speed of a turret, but fires 4 "shots" each time it fires which pretty much cancels each other out.
If you can mount 2 times as many railguns than turreted gauss cannons, railguns are as good as gauss cannons with a ROF of 2. If you can mount 3 times as many rail guns, they are the equal to turreted gauss cannons with a ROF of 3.
And with one or two additional levels of launch velocity researched, they also make good secondary offensive armament.