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Phalanx CIWS / C-RAM (old vers)

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Seeing the emergence of homing missiles and fantastic guided missile/torpedo scripts, you're gonna need some form of defense against that. And here where the Close-In Weapons System steps in to guard your base from all that evil.

I found that regular Gatling turrets lacked the oomphf to kick large block torpedoes to the teeth, so I looked up a way to manufacture a better solution that didn't require me to spam my base full of basic turrets. This model is just that, a full all in one defense package that can be pasted near a base, or cut from its stand and inserted into a ship as pictures shown above.

Combat tested as hard as I could and found no flaws yet, tracking is quick and exceptionally accurate thanks to Whip's slaved turret script, and the modded cannon provides the much needed power. All guided by a Designator block. Best of all, no clang! Reloading is needed like the real thing and can be done from the rear of ammo drum.
The whole reason it even uses modded designator is to keep the system as easy to paste as possible. Any vanilla turret will work just as fine, but needs to be located in the ship elsewhere.
Works with any modded weapon as long as you follow instructions

INSTALLATION

The modded version provided is copy paste ready, if for some reason it does not automatically guard you, be sure to punch the hard reset button on the back of the turret to try the easy fix.
When pasting, you'll need to include the large rotor base too since it's named and in use in a group required by the script, so just using the small pieces isn't quite enough.

1) Cut what you don't need for your style of installation location & Copy
2) Paste

VANILLA CONVERSION/INSTALLATION

If you just like the looks and don't care for effectiveness:

1) swap out the main weapon to default small ship gatling
2) Place or rename a turret on your ship (vanilla turret) into something with "Designator" in it.
3) Cut what you don't need and copypaste on your ship
4) Look up "Rotor Elevation", "Rotor Azimuth", "Gatling gun" & "Designator" and group them into "Turret Group [name here]

The system uses Whip's amazing turret script, and full guide can be found there (link in sidebar). I'll try to keep my intro on it simple
-Current settings have accurate limits to the turret's elevation, however these can be adjusted in "Rotor Elevation" should your ship get in the way of the motion, same for "Rotor Azimuth".
-Current settings will default the weapon pointing in one spot after firing, so be sure to orient the system while installing.

HOX!!!!
-If you're installing more than 1 of these on a ship, be sure to change the "Turret Group CIWS" name to different ones per turret. Recommend "Turret Group PortCIWS" or "Turret Group StarboardCIWS" etc... and shutting down all but 1 Programmable block.
-If you're using a vanilla version or you want to cut down on PCU, be sure to know that you don't need a designator for each turret, it can be shared by many as long as it is in each turret group.

Should anyone know how to hook up a soundblock to a gun, IE make it broadcast sound while gun is firing, let me know. Struggling with that. Feedback is most welcome and improvements can be made.

Enjoy!