Talk:Synced Turret/@comment-29461750-20170329155638/@comment-454133-20170329170848

GC is Guidance Chips, along with Synced Turret, R4 Agromech, BTL-A4 , Extra Munitions , and Ion Torpedoes on Drea Renthal. Linking saves a lot of manual lookup. :)

If I understand right (and rephrasing to make sure I get the steps):

1) Use you action to get a lock at range 3.

2) Fire ion torps to ionize the target and do some damage.  Drea can take a stress token to re-acquire the lock.  Guidance Chips will further improve your odds of a hit.

3) Next round you'll each move 1 toward each other, probably putting you at range 2.  Maybe 1?  Take a focus action; you don't necessarily still have a lock.

4) Use the title to use primary first; the reason for this is spending the focus for a lock.  You might do some damage too.

5) Fire turret, gaining 2 rerolls for free.

6) Next round bank out of there.  You can still fire with your turret if they fail to escape range 2.

Assuming all goes well, you'll do good damage from the torps, then maybe damage from your primary, then probably decent damage from the turret (with its 2 rerolls), over 2 rounds.

I dunno, I suppose it's okay (am I missing something important?). It won't be as effective against a large target, and if a small ship is evasive you may miss with even 4 hits on your torp, because crazy evasion; the whole combo depends on the ion. If they're able to barrel roll and boost after the ion maneuver, then they may just arc dodge you.

You'll also be getting shot at the whole time if you're facing each other, and many ships will hit harder than Drea; if Drea can flank then this may work a lot better. The agromech may not be necessary for Drea when she's attacking the same target... she can keep that lock with her own ability. But the redundancy is nice, and on shots where you spend the lock to reroll, the focus to change to hits, and then regain your lock without stress, that will be very desirable indeed.

Overall: IMO it just seems like a lot of investment (points and tactics) to get more work out of that turret. Though I suspect I'm skimming past something important.