Spaceships: "improved" guns?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by tbrock1031

For a real world example, consider this: Are the gun turrets on the WWII Iowa-class battleships medium batteries, or improved major batteries with three barrels? t.

You can not actually build an Iowa-class with Spaceships. It violates the rules for gun size. The ship is SM+12 by mass yet that SM only allows 32 cm guns while the Iowa has 40 cm main guns. You certainly can't have 9 Spinal Mounts.

After some reflection I believe the Improved option is not a rules viable choice. With a Beam weapon you're giving up something such as using a UV laser with armor divisor (2) instead of an X-ray model with a (5) to get the higher ROF.

That's because it's an Improved version of old tech.

With a Gun you wouldn't be giving up anything.