AUR suit mauler comes w/ a forge gun... nice try bud but no. and the FG used to be a free fit w/ a class i don't remeber its name any more.

Could you explain to me why grenades are 'stronger' than small missiiles.

The Forge is an Anti-Materiel weapon. Instead of making an entire vairable for vehicles like we have with headshots, CCP just raised the damage on the Forge because at those numbers it doesn't matter. If the Forge was scaled to half it's output it would STILL OHK a dropsuit, so seeing as it is so far past dropsuit HP it has it's damage scaled to Vehicle HP.

Put simply, the extra damage simulates an armor-piercing principle which the Railgun does not have because it isn't purely designed with an AV focus. If anything, the Railguns need abit of their old splash back as their shape is most likely conducive to shrapnel and shock as opposed to the shear piercing that the Forge has.

If I had to make a 'theoretical balance' thing here, the Forge would need less splash, but more damage to make up for the damage lost in the splash explosion. This would reflect the armor and shield piercing abilities trying to be exemplified by the Forge with its 'unrealistically' large output. The Railgun would need a slightly larger splash, but not as damaging as the splash was before it was nerfed(if any of you are old enough to remember those days). This will assist in exemplifying the unspecialized round structure that the Railgun appears to use, as it does less damage to hard targets but can still indirectly 'blap' infantry. In this way the Forge has a focused anti-armor role and can still 'forgesnipe' people with a steady hand, and the Railgun can have its more anti-infantry role with the large splash doing decent damage and resetting shield recharge times, while still packing enough direct fire damage to be a threat to other tanks.

LET THE FLAMING COMMENCE.

The Railgun also has more DPS I believe.

how many times are we going to hit the forge gun argument, its quite old

I hate to agree with a SVER, but he is right

But to actually respond, a railgun has more than 3,000 HP. A forge gun has to support a suit with (sometimes) less than half what a railgun has.

I just realized this thread is about vehicle rail guns.

Please disregard everything I have said thus far.

Could you explain to me why grenades are 'stronger' than small missiiles.

YOU AREN'T ACCOUNTING FOR RELOAD MORON. A decent tanker would never be stupid enough to force his turret into a sieze period, but the Forge must reload every four shots nomatter what. Furthermore, what makes the compressed Railgun 'good'? It has higher damage, less splash, JUST LIKE THE FORGEGUN. You keep choosing the Anti-Materiel Railgun and expecting it to do well in every situation. There is no 'good' one, just one you like more.