Редактирование: TGMC:Guide to fire support (раздел)

=The Railgun=
[[File:TGMC_railgun_fire.gif|right|128px|The Gun of Ra'il]]
When fighting against an existential threat such as the xenomorph horde, you're going to need to use everything you have at your disposal to eliminate the enemy, up to and including a weapon made for the express purpose of ship-to-ship combat. A weapon such as the shipside railgun. While not particularly as effective against planetary targets as it is against spaceships, it has its uses. When fired, the projectile burns up in the planet's atmosphere, melting and splitting apart into a hail of molten metal. It is much better at being used for area denial rather than dealing actual damage due to its spread.<br>
There are 2 primary ways to target the railgun: using tactical binoculars, or the AI.
* with tactical binoculars, alt-click or press unique action until you switch to railgun targeting mode, then use the binoculars and ctrl-click the area you wish to hit, as described above. Keeping the laze on the target will cause the railgun to keep firing until the laze is removed, usually by a braindead marine moving you by bumping into you.
* The AI has a unique railgun seperate from the normal one. It has a 30 second windup and fires a faster volley of 10 shots before being on cooldown for 6 minutes(separate cooldown from the normal railgun). Do note that '''you cannot cancel any lases'''. Ctrl+Shift-Click to lase.
* The railgun can be fired from an overwatch console(not the main one, the other ones). Simply set the overwatch to whichever squad deployed the beacon, and check the area by clicking the target beacon's button on the display(image coming soon maybe probably hopefully). If this pops up when you try to fire:
 Your busy doing something else, and press the wrong button!
try clicking the End Camera View action button, then clicking on the target beacon button again. This should allow you to fire the railgun. Though most times this method is never used, it never hurts to know.