[Hades]

I have an alternate idea, which I already discussed with Zacam who told me to post it here. Basically, instead of each bank having separate firing slots, all three banks would use every single firing slot on the model. Basically, Duplicate all the firing points into each "bank" so that they are all used equally and interchangeably.

[Kolgena]

Hmm. I'm not sure I like that idea. On the Medusa, random fire pointing makes tempest spam a lot harder, since you can't predict where the missiles will come from. On the boanerges, firing bombs would look weird if you shot a dual with one from the dorsal bank and one from a side bank.

[KyadCK]

I agree with Kolgena, the concept would absolutely murder times where you rely on a certian bank for certain firepoints, such as tempests on the Madusa's inner firepoints for better accuracy vs bombs on the outside to reduce the odds of both being shot down. While I both understand and like the bank/firepoint rearrangement, I don't think having all banks fireing from everywhere would work.

[Hades]

Except neither the Boa nor Medusa use Tempest, everything it uses is homing, be it by heat or aspect, as already said by the OP.

All missiles, including bombs, also converge on their target, effectively bunching up anyway, and considering the outside missile points on the Medusa tend to get used by bombs anyway, I really don't see the argument there.

[Qent]

It would look fine for the Medusa, since one of its banks comes out of both sides anyway. For the Boa, the top bank needs to come from the top only, because as Kolgena said it will be weird otherwise. The side banks can be combined though.

[Commander Zane]

I'd rather the changes Zacam was showing on the OP be used instead of having every bank use every port.

[headdie]

Personally I would prefer the layouts in the OP if change is going to be made.  All banks using all firepoints would suggest that the missiles were loaded at random rather than in any kind of order, which you would normally expect.

Also how are firing points handled when bank switching, will the game revert to firepoint 1 each time the player switches banks?  if so that would look really odd

[Qent]

I don't understand the reason for making banks share firing points.