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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The Lakota fired beams from lots of places, including those with emitter "beads" and those with no weaponlike surface features whatsoever, neither "bead turrets" nor strips. The shots (IIRC): -L snaps up towards D, opens up with (lower?) saucer emitters. Interior pictures as more shots hit D. -D rolls over the saucer, firing with pulse phasers and a dorsal turret, L responds with saucertop main phasers -D continues towards the camera, L fires a beam from the starboard side of the impulse housing (no real emitter here in the model, but one can't tell that from the picture) -D fires aft torpedo and withdraws, and I think L fires ventral secondary hull phasers as a parting shot -D flies along the length of L from bow to stern, raking with pulse phasers. L fires from between impulse crystals (no real emitter, but difficult to see) and the bulge between the nacelle pylons (no real emitter, and this is easier to see). So while a typical E-B style ship has 20 emitters in 5+5 twin mounts on the saucer, a quad mount on ventral secondary hull, and possibly two twin mounts straddling the shuttlebay (according to the "Generations" MSD if not the model), the Lakota apparently adds at least four emitters (two on the impulse deck sides, one atop the impulse housing, one between nacelles). Only the 2 forward torp tubes are apparent, but stern tubes undoubtedly exist as well (presumably in those tailpipe-like protrusions just under the fantail) The Constellations in turn have 3+3 twin saucer turrets and five additional single turrets on dorsal saucer surface (although we never see any of them fire). I'm still not sure whether there are 2 or 4 torp tubes - the upper ones seem highly suspect, since the lower ones are so obviously taken directly from the Constitution model but the upper ones must be customized if they exist. And the modelmakers didn't even bother to paint the obvious lower ones correctly. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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