Bay weapons

[Jak Nazryth]

I am used to a bay weapon taking up 10 hard points, but in Mongoose the rules state simply that a 50 ton bay takes only 1 hard point and 1 ton for fire control.
So a 1000 ton ship can have 2 bays, plus 8 more turrets/barbettes.
Is this a correct interpretation?

 

[AndrewW]

I am used to a bay weapon taking up 10 hard points, but in Mongoose the rules state simply that a 50 ton bay takes only 1 hard point and 1 ton for fire control.
So a 1000 ton ship can have 2 bays, plus 8 more turrets/barbettes.
Is this a correct interpretation?

Yup. Either 50 ton or the large 100 ton bays only take 1 hardpoint each. Barbettes as well. Spinal mount weapons take one hardpoint per 100 tons though.

 

[Jeraa]

So a 1000 ton ship can have 2 bays, plus 8 more turrets/barbettes. Is this a correct interpretation?

It depends. If you only use the core rulebook, there is no limit to the number of bays you can have (besides the limit on your available hardpoints.) A 1000 ton ship can have its 10 hardpoints in 10 bays.

If you use High Guard, there is a limit.

Standard spacecraft and small craft can always carry one bay but the maximum number is limited by displacement/1000, multiplied by the power plant rating number (rounded down, but with a minimum of one).

A 1000 ton ship could have 1 bay, multiplied by its power plant rating (of 1 to 6), so 1 to 6 bays.

 

[Jak Nazryth]

I'm thinking of 1 50 ton fusion gun bay, or a P-Beam bay for a 2k ton merchant cruiser.
I don't necessarily want to turn it into a pocket warship, but it needs to fill both the roles of a small cruiser, and a cargo/passenger liner. At first the torpedo bay examples really threw me for a loop in high guard till I realized all the 31 ton examples were because of the 60% size based on TL modifications.
So is a torpedo barbette worth the cost?
I am trying to remake the Leviathan, which had 4 torpedo "bays"/launch tubes.

 

[barnest2]

Torpedo barbettes alone are not worth it. Torpedo barbettes used with a bay are worth it, as it gives you an additional tube without using a large tonnage.