Tank Turrets, Surface or Structural elements

[tommahoney]

Are turrets mounted on tanks structural elements or are they surface elements and should they count as 1 structure level below structural elements?

[birdman]

The turret is a structural element. The rotator for the turret is a surface element.

[tommahoney]

Thanks for the quick reply, thats great help!

[Rayhawk]

The gun barrels sticking out of the turret are also surface elements, if that makes any difference.

[Fulizer]

wait... that means that the rotator is a surface element to the tank body (unless you are limiting turning sharpness, there isn't enough space for the tank to turn or amount of vehicle turns a game turn, would be useless (actually i retract that they are extremeley useful))

while the gun barrels are surface elements on the weapon?

[IVhorseman]

Basically, if a piece is said to be able to do something, like move or shoot ammunition, it's a surface element. If the piece more or less just sits there and does nothing but provide cover, it's a structural element.

[Ranger S2H]

maybe you could count the turret as a separate creation to the hull?

[birdman]

Uh, why? We already have a simple and easy way of doing it.

[stubby]

maybe you could count the turret as a separate creation to the hull?

This was how things were done in BW2001. It didn't really add anything in particular to gameplay though, besides a little extra bookkeeping.