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no, railguns are much more simple to create, hell anyone can make a railgun using stuff you can get from a DIY store, though it'll probably only fire once and not be very impressive, but its still an 'actual' railgun. coilguns are more complicated but require less energy i think, since railguns require massive amounts of current to launch projectiles down their rails and out the barrel, coilguns have bucket load of electromagnetic coils which attract a magnetic projectile down the barrel.
railguns = simple but very very power hungry, plus their rails are very likely to be damaged due to both stresses caused by the huge magnetic fields and molten pieces of the projectile, melted by the rediculous current. the cobra from halo: wars uses railguns.
coilguns = more complicated, 'different' power consumption, since you could have a relatively small bunch of capacitors for each stage in the coilgun, and charge them in parallel. also not likely to be damaged by their own projectile melting or insane magnetic fields. MACs are coilguns.