scope of the game
everyone has their own take on the scope of the game I guess.
Converting naval guns to land based systems can be done - although it is demanding in terms of resources ,personell and expertise.
The German railcar guns of huge caliber during WWII had a crew of 1300 personell all told .(Cooks,mechanicstrain engineers,guards,spotterplane,spotterplane airfield personell etc etc )
Imagine setting up 20 companies of 30-50 men instead and having them dominate an area on foot or truck or horseback.
I agree that this would take you further than one railway gun in terms of controlling the land in a "survive in the ruins " game .But in a "warlord vs warlord scrap over who owns the ruins and the villages " the railway gun would be the bang to end the squabble .So different scopes .
It might not be efficient -thats very well.
But improvising such guns to be used on land could happen .
Us Norgies did it in 1940 at Hegra fort in Mid Norway -it wasnt a 8 inch battleship naval gun though . Smaller .It did help ,but sighting and firing the thing at the unholy agressors was a pain and not very effective.
Using AA guns or smaller shipboard guns to make emplacements or "technicals" would be highly cost effective on the other hand ( imho )
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