Assault Railgun (Gaalsien)

The Assault Railgun is a heavy vehicle featured in Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. It combines the hard-hitting heavy vehicle killing power of railguns and the speed of light vehicles.

Summary
As its title suggests, the Assault Railgun is a Gaalsien adaptation of railgun strategy. Instead of simply entrenching itself and blasting at long range with high accuracy, it instead mounts three short-barreled railguns that fire in quick succession, all built into a very light and fast chassis that is able to keep pace with Sandskimmers and Assault Ships. This gives the more mobile harassment/ambush-oriented Gaalsien battlegroups a lot more firepower to bring to bear, able to unleash heavy damage on enemy armor and then disappear as quickly as they came.

Like all railgun units, the Assault railgun is vulnerable to aircraft and fast units like LAV's which it has trouble targetting, and its light armor cannot protect it for long. Once it has accomplished its goal, it should be pulled back to repair itself. Its cannons also suffer at long range as accuracy is sacrificed for short-range damage and speed, so if it sits still it can be engaged from long range by enemy railguns.