I'm probably the only one...

[Finn]

Gunturrets, I find them utterly useless.
Why? Let me get the mood right.

You've just spent 180x4 on four new fancy gun turrets, then researched the gunturret cooling system. You build up fortifications around the gun turret and use them to protect your solar arrays. The inevitable happens and raiders come in a moderately large force, 5-6 raiders armed with pistols and lee's. Thinking to your self the four upgraded gun-turrets could probably handle it without having to pull workers off too defend the solar arrays. The raiders attack in force, your gunturrets useless. A few hits and they explode, wiping the sandbags down around them and starting fires. Your solar-arrays are in ruins and you have to scramble your workers to deal with the raiders.

Now if you see where i'm coming from, the turrets die too quickly and don't deal near enough damage. So each raid you have to pull off workers too handle everything. I've tried different set ups to try and deal with the turrets lack of range, armour and hitpoints and lack of damage but nothing works.

Implement: A couple research points to buff the guns. I.E More range and more damage, more hitpoints and armour, but with a long research timer of course.
Unless i'm the only one thinking the turrets are useless.

[Motorkingpus]

Have you tried a setup like this?



Just with a few more turrets obviously.

[Finn]

No..I have not.
That seems very effective, is it?

[Motorkingpus]

I've only tried it with colonists, but I'd imagine it'd work well with turrets.

[murhe]

You need just build walled area where are lots of guns inside to rise the effectiveness of the turrets. Ideal situation is where the entry is blocked with another wall so enemy can't snipe inside, but any man coming in is targeted by several turrets. I usually try to build 3 waves of turrets from bottom to entry and few turrets in each side.

There should be mines before and after entry. You could build mine room before the turret room where raiders will be packed together to kick a door inside and you could ignite a explosive. Someone said that 4 mines together is enought to destroy bodies and weapons. I haven't tried that. I just use single explosives to damage them early.

In open area turrets are pretty useless unfortunately.

[Ender]

Ya, i dont even build any turrets anymore, using colonists to defend is much more efficient.