@ Super:
Yes, that was a big limitation of real railway guns. They could be devastating in combat but they were extremely difficult to traverse. IIRC, the guns deployed in France were the ones basically emplaced in static defense positions with a purpose built railroad turntable used to traverse them. Like you said, they could lay new line or use existing lines to redeploy the guns. But otherwise, they were either used for coastal defense, like in Sicily or France, or as a siege weapon against cities, like in Russia.
It’s an odd paradox but for an apparently mobile weapon, they were mostly useful in static roles.
Yes, that was a big limitation of real railway guns. They could be devastating in combat but they were extremely difficult to traverse. IIRC, the guns deployed in France were the ones basically emplaced in static defense positions with a purpose built railroad turntable used to traverse them. Like you said, they could lay new line or use existing lines to redeploy the guns. But otherwise, they were either used for coastal defense, like in Sicily or France, or as a siege weapon against cities, like in Russia.
It’s an odd paradox but for an apparently mobile weapon, they were mostly useful in static roles.
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