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Originally Posted by YankeeGamer
As I'm looking at options, I see one very useful, and, IMVHO, important and realistic modification.
Each turret has a specific amount that you get back if you put, for example, only 3 tertiary guns in place. That's the weight of the weapon emplacement.
Well, even BIG ships will use small guns; the Iowa class battleships used the same 20 mm Oikerlons for point defense that destroyers did.
I think that a section could be equipped with MUCH smaller weapons than the size class of the ship supports in the rules, with the rest cargo, or reaction mass, or whatever. Thus, a SM +15 ship could still have LOTS of guns suitable as secondary guns on a SM +5 ship, creating a forrest of fire for shooting at fighters and missiles.
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I gave an example here
http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.p...2&postcount=17 of a battleship, cruiser, and escort where the battleship uses a tertiary battery to mount the same guns that the escort mounts in 6 secondary batteries. You could extend that indefinitely, with each gun slot in a tertiary battery holding 3x or 10x of SM -1 or SM -2 ship's tertiary battery.