I hope a gatling style, then an Abram's M1 style- not this 'can't look down, only firable at targets from tacnet, zero splash, unable to blah blah' bull, people hear 'artillery' and think 'OP nerf it NOW'
Like flaylocks- rocketpistol=OP NERF IT
MD-nubetoob NERF IT
Smg- spray n pray bullet hose NERF IT

I hope the Min tanks get equal slot layout, and all tanks get 1 extra slot(cal tank 4/2, gal tank 2/4, amarr tank 1/5,min tank 3/3)
Cannon similar to railgun- forward facing slow RoF high alpha, fires like flaylock, and has a range of 499m(rails are 600)
Autocannon is HMG style or twin 30mm cannon, less DOS than blaster, but still effective against tanks.

I want this on my minmatar HAV

Doubles as overdrive when shooting backwards

So pretty much Gallente tanks are done for.

The one that has me thinking the most is the Amarr large laser turrets. We know that we will have both pulse and beam variants. But the beam one has me thinking. "Will it melt through any shields surprisingly quick?" "How will it's turn speed be?" I see the dooms days of Caldari Dropships when they are flying around and suddenly a powerful beam destroys it out of nowhere. I can just imagine it.

Now the Minmatar turret I don't know how will that one work. But please speculate to give me an image

Lets talk the past of turrets.

Small blasters and small rails have always been so completely worthless that literally nobody uses them (especially from a dropship, side or front gun).

CCP has made it obvious over the last year that they either are incompetent or intend to have only one viable small turret.
If they add 2 ,5 ,16 or more they will all be equally worthless.

There can be only one!

Amarr small turret is pulse
Amarr large turret is beam

Or both could have variants

Pulse is less accurate more DPS
Beam is highly accurate less dps

Beam turrets better for AV
Pulse turrets better for AP

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Minmatar, we have projectils so we can say, two turrets

Artillery turrets and autocannon turrets

Minmatar small turret has only autocannon variant
Minmatar large turret has artillery and autocannon

Artillery - low accuracy (projectile goes faster than a plasma cannon round, moderate rate of fire high splash high damage. Primary focus : clearing out hordes of infantry. AV aswell, requires high accuracy which makes it balanced.

Autocannon - dual turrets on the large (like large missile turrets)
small turrets has a single turret graphic (small blasters/railgun/missiles)
Primary focus, large dispersion high damage moderate rate of fire.