Terran Huge Turret

The Terran Huge Turret is a primary weapon used in turrets of the large vessels.

Weapons in Descent: FreeSpace

Primaries Secondaries Turrets Weapon Comparison Table, FS1

Weapons in FreeSpace 2

Primaries Secondaries Turrets Weapon Comparison Table, FS2

Description

Basic Terran and Vasudan turret weapon.

Performance

Statistics

Range	2100 m
Rate of Fire	0.33 shots per second
Velocity	175 ms-1
Base Damage	125
Armor Damage	Full	125
Shield Damage	Average	50
Subsystem Damage	Average	75

Notes

Veteran Comments

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Oddly enough the Terran Huge Turret (occasionally written THT in mods) actually does slightly less armor and shield damage per second than the standard Terran Turret, but its single hit damage is much greater. Like all so-called blob turrets the Terran Huge Turret is very slow, and therefore, very inaccurate, coupled with both the 3-second delay factor and the fact that in reality the Terran Huge Turret only really does slightly more damage-per-second than the Prometheus R, this is not an effective weapon, for anti-capital or anti-fighter work. This weapon is useful, however, for destroying bombs, which it does fairly effectively.

At least on the Orion, the THT is mounted in a triplicate mount on some turrets, which increases the effective rate of fire and makes the Terran Huge Turret more effective as an anti-warship and point defense weapon.