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Are turrets mounted on tanks structural elements or are they surface elements and should they count as 1 structure level below structural elements?

The turret is a structural element. The rotator for the turret is a surface element.

Thanks for the quick reply, thats great help!

The gun barrels sticking out of the turret are also surface elements, if that makes any difference.

wait... that means that the rotator is a surface element to the tank body (unless you are limiting turning sharpness, there isn't enough space for the tank to turn or amount of vehicle turns a game turn, would be useless (actually i retract that they are extremeley useful))

while the gun barrels are surface elements on the weapon?

Basically, if a piece is said to be able to do something, like move or shoot ammunition, it's a surface element. If the piece more or less just sits there and does nothing but provide cover, it's a structural element.

maybe you could count the turret as a separate creation to the hull?

Uh, why? We already have a simple and easy way of doing it.

Ranger S2H wrote:maybe you could count the turret as a separate creation to the hull?

This was how things were done in BW2001. It didn't really add anything in particular to gameplay though, besides a little extra bookkeeping.