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How awesome would it be if we could place turrets on trains
so they can protect themself and are mobile killer-trains
maybe as kind of wagon so we have individual trains

Often suggested as point of fact.

Modders have tried it before, and determined that the game's code just plain doesn't allow it.

The turret code only works when stationary, you would have to delete and re-make the turret with each tick.


However, you might like the equipment grids feature. It isn't enabled in vanilla, but there are mods to enable it.

Using equipment grids you should be able to equip shields and personal laser defenses on your trains.

I should try this tonight, putting laser defense modules on my trains and driving them past biter nests. It should make a nice show of the capabilities.

OdinYggd wrote:Modders have tried it before, and determined that the game's code just plain doesn't allow it.

Just plain doesn't allow what? There's more than a few mods that allow you to have wagons shoot at biters. They are not exactly a turret built over wagon, but the difference is negligible. And this is not "ideas and requests for mods" forum, difficulties of modding are not difficulties of devs doing things.

As for idea, Ssilk will probably come by soon and give link to here.

An interesting think would be a special wagon called ARMORED WAGON that allows you to carry special guns on it..

Rumor has it that artillery trains are planned for vanilla sometime.

Trains really don't need defending. They only really stop at signals and outposts. Outposts should be defended and they normally stop at signals only momentarily. Plus they have a lot of health. When they're moving they kill everything in their path anyway. While it might be cool, it's really unnecessary.

No, it could really happen, that the biters run so unlucky into the driving train, that they are hit by a wagon. A WAGON! The wagon is destroyed then, the part with the locomotive will continue. That is really a rare event, but it happened to me 3 or 4 times now.

If you have luck you see that immediately, cause they destroyed a wagon in the middle of your train: the remaining train (the wagons) will still stand on the rails.
If you will never know, what happened, cause they hit the last wagon and you wonder, why there is missing a wagon.

So a basic request is
EITHER a running train is invulnerable as the locomotive.
Or locos are vulnerable as wagons.

Both has consequences, like what happens if one train crashes into another.