Re: [FT]Variable Fire Arcs...

Binhan Lin wrote:

> Then again it's not physically impossible to have more than
> two 360 degree turrets in a pseudo-2D world, you just
> stack them on top of each other.  You end up with a ship
> that looks like a pile of checkers, but each would be able
> to fire all around, but only the end two would get to fire
> directly up or down.
>

It could make an interesting looking fleet.

>
> Even if a pile of checkers is not to your aesthetic liking, just
> look at modern tanks which can have two 360 degree weapons
> -a main gun and a commander's cupola.  In space, you get
> to use the entire bottom side of the ship for twice the number
> of turrets.
>
> --Binhan
>

I always wondered why "starblazers" ships didn't make any use of the
bottom
of the ship.  (except for a bridge).

Donald Hosford