Bishop Steiner, on 13 March 2016 - 08:33 AM, said:
Actually, even the Goliath doesn't though it's anime ancestor does. (And I forget if Stackpole described them as having one, or not, but by rules, they do not).
Mech turrets of any type do not exist until MW:DA.
The rules for turrets were introduced in
Maximum Tech (the spiritual predecessor to
Tactical Operations); they can be found on page 63 of
Maximum Tech, Revised.
MaxTech was published in 1997, a half-decade before any of the
MWDA materials had been released (the original MWDA set was released in August 2002).
Also, the
Golaith is described as having a turret in the novel
Warrior: Riposte.
"The massive quadruped
Goliath 'Mechs looked more like conventional tanks that had sprouted a leg at each corner of their boxy chassis. Their low, flat turrets swiveled side to side as though the muzzle of their PPCs spied out targets before blasting them into oblivion. Nearly twelve meters high, the 'Mechs stood a third again as tall as any of the light 'Mechs opposing them. Like a solid line of mechanized war elephants, the
Goliaths drove their fleeing enemies before them."
"Andrew watched as the miniature sun of the
Goliath's fusion engine sent superheated plasma tendrils throughout the 'Mech's body. Looking like a DropShip blasting for the stars, the
Goliath's turret shot into the air on an argent jet, then exploded into a million smoking scraps."
The same novel (
Warrior: Riposte) also describes the torso-mounted lasers of the
Archer as being housed in a turret.
"The forearms mounted the
Archer's two forward-firing medium lasers, while the two lasers protecting the
Archer's rear arc stabbed backward from a ball turret riding where the Mech's head should have been."
Additionally, the novel
The Price of Glory describes the torso-mounted laser of the Locust as being mounted in a turret.
"The controls were identical to those in Lori's old, Sigurdian
Locust. He touched a control and felt the vibration as the chin turret directly under the cockpit swung 90 degrees, sharply to the right. A screen on the instrument console showed him the target feed from the
Locust's medium laser. He could see the troops cautiously moving forward again. Beyond them, brightly lit in the clearing at the bottom of the slope, he could see the two Packrat ECM vehicles, with soldiers swarming around them."
Edited by Strum Wealh, 13 March 2016 - 06:08 PM.