How many weapons in a barbette?

[Infojunky]

The text is vague in High Guard, how many weapons specifically PAs can one mount?

Traditionally, PAs where one weapon to a mount, but within the TMB they just another turret slot.

 

[Emperor Herdan]

The text is vague in High Guard, how many weapons specifically PAs can one mount?

Traditionally, PAs where one weapon to a mount, but within the TMB they just another turret slot.

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barbette - (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
1. A platform or mound of earth within a fort from which guns are fired over the parapet.
2. An armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on a warship.

A barbette is a protective circular armour feature around a cannon or heavy artillery gun. The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet (defensive wall) rather than through an opening (embrasure). The former gives better angles of fire but less protection.

Before the complete introduction of the fully enclosed armoured gun turrets, a barbette was a fixed armoured enclosure protecting the gun. The barbette could take the form of a ring of armour around the gun mount over which the guns (possibly fitted with a gun shield) fired.

In warships from the age of the dreadnought forward, the barbette is the non-rotating drum beneath the rotating gun turret (properly known as the "gunhouse") and above the armoured deck on a warship. It forms the protection for the upper ends of the hoists that lift shells and their propelling charges (e.g. cordite) from the magazines below.
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I've seen dual gun barbettes (8" and 12") pre-Dreadnought era. I don't see why it can't be up to 3 (and have ne'er understood why they stopped the limit at 3 guns per "turret"... Why not Quads?).

But I can't answer your question... Myself? I would say the tradition of CT of 1 gun per barbette would still hold...

But then I'm old...

Take care

E. Herdan

 

[rust]

I've seen dual gun barbettes (8" and 12") pre-Dreadnought era. I don't see why it can't be up to 3 (and have ne'er understood why they stopped the limit at 3 guns per "turret"... Why not Quads?).

I suspect that the limit of three guns per turret was introduced into Tra-
veller because three guns per turret was the usual configuration for real
world battleships.
However, there have also been examples of real world battleships with
four guns per turret, like HMS King George V, and there is no technical
reason that would make such turrets impossible.

 

[klingsor]

The use of terms like turret and barbette is quite confusing in the real world (if I recall correctly most warship turrets are not actually turrets) but according to High Guard "a barbette is similar to a turret but larger" (Book 5 High Guard page 30). Particle accelerators could only be mounted one per barbette but could be mounted one per turret at TL15 according to Book 5 so It looks like the answer might be one but I have not seen the new book yet.