Battlestar side batteries

[Enderminion]

don't the battlestars have heavy guns on the flight pods and side of the alligator head? at least they do in Dispora, coupled with a frigate with heavy cannons dorsel and ventraly eating a toaster nuke

[TranquilClaws]

Quick answer, game balance.

[TheMadTypist]

In lore explanation could be that's a late-war refit, we're only really playing the opening salvoes here.

[Cybermortis]

The big guns on the Jupiter (Galactica) class ships are on the dorsal, ventral and underside of the bow with the smaller secondary guns located on the flight pods above the Viper launch tubes. I know Galactica was seen at one point with an additional main battery of four guns on the top of the bow section. However this seems to have been a short lived update as she lacks those guns by the end of the war, as does the other Jupiter class ship (Columbia I think) she is seen fighting alongside.

The Valkyrie and Mercury class Battlestars do have main batteries located on the flight pods. However the Mercury class won't exist for some 40 years after the game (its new as of the series) and the Valkyrie doesn't exist in the game as of yet. It's unclear as to the date the Valkyrie started to enter production, although it should start appearing around the time of the game from what I can tell.

[GHawkins the Grey]

Originally posted by Cybermortis:

The big guns on the Jupiter (Galactica) class ships are on the dorsal, ventral and underside of the bow with the smaller secondary guns located on the flight pods above the Viper launch tubes. I know Galactica was seen at one point with an additional main battery of four guns on the top of the bow section. However this seems to have been a short lived update as she lacks those guns by the end of the war, as does the other Jupiter class ship (Columbia I think) she is seen fighting alongside.

That's sadly the result of the massive inconsistensies present in Blood and Chrome. Galactica's battery layout actually changes within B&C, which is only a timespan of at most weeks. It's why I don't take it seriously.

The battlestar in Diaspora isn't a Jupiter class battlestar, it's a fan made Sobek class battlestar, which draws more inspiration from the Mercury and Valkyrie class battlestars (which are much more modern than the Jupiter. Yes, I ignore Valkyrie's presence in B&C, it has no place there).

So the Jupiter in the timeframe of the game, early in the war, has no heavy guns on the alligator head. The Jupiter never had heavy guns on the flight pods, since they need to fit into the hull of the ship before jumping. The Mercury and Sobek do however.