Spaceships and ROF

[starslayer]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Adding together RoF is almost always disadvantageous, compared to firing the same number of shots as more attacks at the same base skill level.

The one advantage of a combined volley is that it allows a single gunner to fire more weapons. You can only make one attack per gunner after all.

The one exception to this is when your skill for that shot is dangerously low (due to range, ECM, etc)- since large bursts get a higher bonus to effective skill it can turn a 7 to a 9 or a 9 to an 11 to fire all at once, which can be huge in terms of the 3d6 bell curve.