Bay turrets

[vegascat]

Who has used bay turrets in their designs?

On cruisers and larger, I find bay turrets work quite well. Start with a 300 ton turret mount, 15M x 15M x18M high. This give you three 100 ton bay slots in a mount capable of covering a 180 degree by 360 degree arc at a minimum. It is 6 decks high, two internal, 4 exposed. Great place to put 3 Paccs or Meson guns.

 

[trader jim]

oh sure - over gunned and MUCH slower i just LOVE
sitting Ducks!!! whatta you got to move all the extra steel - a ford V/8?? that aint gonna cut it!!!

 

[vegascat]

These are not to put on a little SDB. Maybe a great big 50K SDB, but not a little one.

 

[Simon Jester]

Well, that would be how to design the main turrets from an Iowa-class battleship (or the main turrets from ANY battleship, for that matter).

Simon Jester

 

[vegascat]

Has anyone else tried using turreted bay weapons on their ship designs?

 

[StrikerFan]

Originally posted by vegascat:
Has anyone else tried using turreted bay weapons on their ship designs?

It's not allowed under HG or MT rules, so no, I haven't.

StrikerFan

 

[vegascat]

The HG rules do not specify bay weapons as not turret mounted. The rules do suggest that the bay ewapons can be fired in arcs, not just in a single line as with spinal mounts. This suggests that the business end is trainable.
On a small ship in the kiloton range, a bay weapon would be a spine mount, but on a CR or larger, they would need to rotate and elevate.
In my deck plan designs, I mount them in large turrets.
The alternative, remember in Star Wars,IV, attack on the Death Star. The Imp gun crews are firing at the fighters with pedistal mounted laser cannon. I guess they are firing through the windows. In the trench, they did have turret guns firing back. The turrtes in the trench as large or larger than the fighters.