Got a request for a new gun station on the DDs.
Instead of a 20mm or 40mm mount, how about just a torpedo launching mount? DDs carried them, did they not? If not, add a torpedo cruiser. The launcher would have between 6 and 8 tubes, and you could NOT steer the ship, but you could turn the launcher and fire them.
Give the station a low ammo count and a long reload time (60 seconds for a full reload, after all tubes are empty? 120 seconds?) to prevent spamming.
I see CV fleets passing each other and the only thing you can do is spam them with endless waves of suicide bombers or use the big fleet guns on them. If you had another gun position in the fleet with torps, fleets would be more hesitant to pass through each other than they are right now.
Pros: Torps already modeled in-game, limited in range/angle that you can fire them (can only rotate them, have to calculate the rest in your head) so they won't be a super weapon, limited # of fish and long reload time limit abuse of the torps, putting them on a DD or on their own ship means that (like troops, fuel, etc) can be killed and removed from the fight.
Cons: Most folks wouldn't use them, no way to keep "spies" or griefers from taking up the only torp position, not really "effective" but it is fun
HERE:
http://www.seawolfproductions.com/Shipwreck%20Museum/Bikini%20Wrecks/lamson/lamson1.jpgIs an example of a DD (Mahan-class "DD-367 USS LAMSON" for the image in question). You can see a center tube that can swivel to either side and second tube sets for either side (they can only fire off the side they are on). I'm requesting something like the center tubes, that can be fired to any direction but you can't change the direction of the ship itself, just the tubes.
