[starbug]

I have a question about weapon loadouts for Capitol vessels. I am trying to give a Hecate abit of a firepower boost against capital ships without loosing the anti-fighter ability(well an advanced Hecate for my campaign i am starting). Now what i was wondering is it possible to have 2 different weapons on the same turret, i.e Terslash and say flak? so when the hecate is figthing against say a deimos instead of firing the flak it would use a the beam. Is this possible in the tables or would it have to be scripted in Fred.

PS does not the EA Omega from the TBP do this with the phalanx turrets? cant remember and i dnt have it installed at the moment.

[Dragon]

You're right aobut the Omega, it can be done.
Hecate will use both slasher and flak agains a Deimos in the situation you descrbed.

[starbug]

so how should it look in the table for the turret, would it be something like this?

$Subsystem:                     Turret10, 0.625, 2.0
   $Default PBanks:        ( "standard flak" "TerSlash" )

or do i need to add anything else?

[Dragon]

Exactly, the turrets should have two firing points to work correctly, but other than that, you're right.
you can even make a turret which shoots both missiles and guns, look at Faustus for an example.

[starbug]

Cheers  for some reason i thought there would be more to it?

[Dragon]

It's even used in Retail, so it's not a problem.
Faustus is a great example, though a bit strange.

[Droid803]

I'm under the impression that the Faustus thing is an error more than anything else.
It looks like that turret has the default loadout of some fighter.

However, it does work...which is amusing.

[Dragon]

That's why I said it's a good, jet strange example of multiple weapons on one turret.

[chief1983]

Just to clarify, when will it decide to use its flak against fighters instead of against the Deimos?  Will it automatically target fighters when there is no capital ship in view, or once the turret is on the Deimos will it stay on it with slasher and flak until the Deimos is no longer targetable?