' Wrote:I love the model, just has a ton of guns for a liner in my opinion. Otherwise, I love it! Kudos!
I'll admit, I always felt the amount of turrets that battleships have over cruisers increases disproportionate to their size. For instance, the RM battleship (fun little ship to use for these types of scaling conversations, isn't it?) only has 7 more turrets than its little brother, the cruiser, while being nearly 20 times larger in terms of volume. Now true, the turrets are of higher caliber (though if it had more they'd be less so, I imagine) but it still means that if hitboxes were tighter, it'd be easier to find poorly protected areas to sit at in say, a bomber or gunship.
As for this liner of mine, it does have a lot of turrets, yes. However, it is very large, many of the turrets can only fire to one side, and transport turrets have rather low range and damage for a ship of this scale, even for a civilian ship. Gunboat turrets on those bigger-looking circle mounts might be cool (with the rest being transport turrets), like all razors, which really isn't that overpowered for a ship so large and since four can only fire to the bottom or top and barely to the sides. Solaris turrets, as well as gunboat primaries, are problematic due to their laughably low range (and transport turret 4s are pretty much the same but with slightly less damage and a lot less energy consumption), while Solaris battleship turrets are very much disproportionate and would just be... wrong on a civilian ship. Honestly, battlerazors would be a nice, decent choice because they're not too long range, so they're purely defensive, they're not greatly damaging, and they can be used against a decent range of targets that attack it. You can't do anything like challenge fleets, but you can at least defend yourself fairly decently, not to mention a ship of this scale likely would lack a thruster, which makes a huge difference. The rest of the turrets would likely be transport turrets of whatever kind the user chooses.
EDIT: Also, here's a quick little picture I did for size comparison purposes
