I am most of the way through a battle where one side has heavy armor, gauss cannon turrets for point defense, and rail guns for main armament, and, to be honest, I thought they were doomed. The other side out-ranged them badly with missiles against their gauss and rail guns.
It didn't work out like I thought, though, which is almost always a pleasure. The gauss guns worked about like I thought in point defense mode, which was okay but not great, but the rail guns, which were their main weapons and were pressed into anti-missile duty, did very well at intercepting incoming missiles.
This is my first real battle using the new armor, and I was impressed. I really liked looking at the armor and seeing deep penetrations here and there.
This battle is going to give everyone in the campaign something to think about. Me especially <G>.
Kurt