Will Tactical Train Ramming be Feautured in FotS?
I don't care about trivial things other people whines about, such as historical hats, buttons, shoe laces, handkerchiefs etc, but we have gotten so close to the release of FotS now and I am yet to read a single word about the inclusion of tactical train rammings in any form! Is it possible that CA has left out this vital feature?
Basicly, whilst I understand it may be hard to implement fully controllable trains and railwaylinks on the battle map, at the very least it should be possible to call in a speeding train of doom on your enemies in the same fashion as you apperently may call in artillery strikes from a nearby fleet/battery, providing of course that you are in control of a nearby railway station and a railway from there to the battlefield (otherwise it would be a little far fetched scenario I suppose).
An actual battlefield implication of such a manouver could be:
1) You play as the Last Samurai, your 200 ahistorical katana guys are heavily outmanned and outgunned by your Imperial enemy, you deploy a defensive line on one side of a friendly railway, with the enemy advancing towards you from the other side.
2) The enemy is about to cross the railway in a long thin line stretching along the rails.
3) A wicked smile crosses you face as you press the "Deploy Tactical Train Strike" button with perfect timing.
4) As the whole line of Imperial enemy elite foreign barbarian riflemen that the emperor has collected for years are stepping onto the rails, a steam whistle blows maliciously and a speeding train comes charging along the rail, slamming into the enemy and rolling up the whole line of enemy elite infantry from one flank to the other, throwing men aside like ragdolls and turning them into bloody pulp in a gloriously gory massacre that not even king Leonidas himself would have been capable of. Sitting upon the train is a grim rider and his name is: Tommy Cruz.
5) Emperor of Japan 0, Tommy Cruz 9000. "The Iron Horse" 1 man cavalry has once again earned it's dreaded name and taken grim toll upon the enemy.
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Originally Posted by Lionheart11
