Well, I am continuing to work with plain ole ships.tbl for now -- it will be a trivial matter to copy and paste into an XMT file later.
Here are screenies so you can validate the choices of turret position I made. Comments / feedback welcome.
Aelous: Four foward turrets face forwards, after turrets aft. Barrels angled up 20 degrees.
Deimos: Two foremost dorsal turrets face forward, after turret faces aft. Barrels angled up 20 degrees. Ventral turret faces forward with barrels at 45 degrees to clear ship structure.
Hecate: Forward three dorsal turrets face forward; barrels at 20 degrees.
After turret faces aft. This turret doesn't seem to work properly, or is just so poorly constructed as to stand out badly. The new Hecate will be 100,000 times better.
I did not touch the short barreled ventral turrets, which are also horribly constructed and look awful altered.
Iceni: Turrets arranged logically according to position on the ship.
The ventral side turrets face out their respective sides.
Orion: Forward turrets are all facing forward, barrels at 10 degrees.
I go back and forth on which way to face the after turrets. For now, the upper after turret faces aft.
As does the midships ventral turret.