Victor Morson, on 19 April 2012 - 10:46 PM, said:
The biggest reason for the confusion is the Blog specifically talked about taking out 1x Large Laser and replacing with 2x Medium Lasers. Now the Q&A says that you can't do that, which seems very contradictory in nature and to be honest even after reading the thread I'm not 100% clear on it.
Thank you for pointing this out...
The only way I can think to resolve the inconsistinces in the OP of this thread (ignoring the earlier blog victor mentioned) is that the hardpoints *change in size* from one critical to as many free (or maybe as many free contiguous?!??) criticals there are any any given location.