yes the Warlocksa main gun are facing forward, but they do have some firing arc, im guessing around 30 degrees perhaps more, and the fact that the Warlock is VERY manuverable for a ship its size, easily pulling a 90 degree turn in 2 seconds or less. if you include the firing arc i think its safe to say a Warlock could easily bring its weapons to bear more than fast enough.
Also we dont know that the Whitestar beams are more powerful than Sharlins, Its only been said thats it has the most powerful weapons of a ship its size.
I think its been said that some of the turrented weapons on the Warlock are improved versions of the GROPOS "think thats what they were called?" cannons on B5. Not sure on this one though, but if true then its turrented weapoons could easily bring Just as much hurt to bear as the VCD could from a broad side give or take a bit.
Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 3:21 PM from IP address 12.239.59.163