Quote"This seems pretty useless to me. This mount is a penalizing mount. Everything is equal to the normal mount (by ratios) except for the range, which is decreased by 1. So overall, a ship using this mount will be outclassed by a ship of the same technology using regular weapons. The only purpose I can think of for this mount is putting a large weapon like a Wave Motion Gun on an Escort or a Frigate, which doesn't seem very useful to me." End Quote.
I know, I have tweaked and re-tweaked this mount, the main purpose for it was to 'fill the Last 10 space' in a ship, as well as to give more chances to hit. I thought of it this way, if there was no penality to it then why just take 1 DUC cannon when you can take TWO light ones that add up to the same damage etc but give you TWO chances to hit. That and I rationalized that a smaller Version of a weapon would not have the necessary 'power' to reach the same distance, think pistol vs. rifle for projectile weapons.....
But thanks for the comments......keep 'em coming!
