Unique defense tower: the rail gun

The basic idea of the rail gun is that it moves along rails that have been placed on walls. It will be destroyed when a wall is broken and it gets derailed. The rails must be in a loop. Multiple turrets can be placed on the rails. It does not have to be an actual gun! Look at my comments and those will explain a little bit about what it could look like. It could look like a cannon on a metal box with wheels, an archer on a platform with wheels, or anything that shoots. The rails would look like normal rails.
Alternatives due to comments:
Instead of a rail it would move along a grove/cap in/on the walls. It would only be able to move on one row of walls (45 and 135 degrees). It would be called something like catapult, sorry if I got the name wrong. It would be filled with dark elixir but would not be like the X-bow. Only one catapult per wall section.

Cost of rails: 25,000 gold each
Movement speed: 16
Cost of turret: 300,000 gold each
Damage: 20
Health: falls off rails when derailed.
Turret max: Two for level seven town hall and three for level nine town hall.
Max rails: infinite
Max upgrade: 6
Range: 7
Upgrade increases: damage by 7 and costs 350,000 more gold each level

Movement patterns can be set for each turret. Turrets can be placed anywhere on the rail.
Please post any comments, questions, or ideas you have for this thread.

Good idea but happens to hog riders? Are they stopped if they run int to the turret? And also do you have to place the rails like how you place walls?

I don't really understand what this would look like. can you post a pic of your idea?

A gun in a medieval theme?

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Originally Posted by Jelibeen

Good idea but happens to hog riders? Are they stopped if they run int to the turret? And also do you have to place the rails like how you place walls?

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Hog riders would just go over the rails or if they meet go through the turret. I was thinking that the option would be there when you click on the wall or you would go into the defenses building's area and be able to place them over and over like walls in edit mode.

Who adds a railgun in this point of time? Its not modern war ok?

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Originally Posted by chrish2124

I don't really understand what this would look like. can you post a pic of your idea?

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I couldn't find any good images. The rails would look like train tracks or railroads and the turret could look like several things: it could be a cannon on top of a metal box with wheels, It could be an archer on a moving platform, it could be anything that shoots. Just so you know it would face the troop it's attacking and when it isn't attacking it makes a 90 degree angle with the wall and the direction it's facing. I forgot to add this but the range would be seven.

I can kind of picture what your saying and I think it's a pretty good idea but it doesn't really go with the theme of Clash of Clans.

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Originally Posted by TheTreeMan

I couldn't find any good images. The rails would look like train tracks or railroads and the turret could look like several things: it could be a cannon on top of a metal box with wheels, It could be an archer on a moving platform, it could be anything that shoots. Just so you know it would face the troop it's attacking and when it isn't attacking it makes a 90 degree angle with the wall and the direction it's facing. I forgot to add this but the range would be seven.

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This gives me a better understanding of it. GREAT IDEA!!!

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Originally Posted by nathannathan1232

A gun in a medieval theme?

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Umm... Rockets in a medieval theme? Helllooo, Clash if Clans is not meant to be realistic.