For this reason DHC are not recommended for slow turning ships and in most cases can not even be mounted on those types of ships. The DHC requires the target to be in a very tight 45 degree arc in front of the ship. But, the turret has a 360 degree targeting arc which means that the target is always available to hit. This compares to a turret which has just 99 DPV and 132 DPS. The Dual Heavy Cannons, ‘DHC’ hit very hard with a base damage per volley of 384 and a base DPS of 256. I will use Mark XII Common Grade for examples to keep it consistent on the comparisons I make here. This lead me to return to the idea of big hitting dps less often versus a constant barrage of weaker hits. The whole idea of using the different weapons types properly and gaining the maximum dps possible was intriguing. His comment got me thinking about weapons and some research I did years ago when STO was still new.

Why not gain the advantage of the hard-hitting duals without giving up the wide arc of a single cannon? As the reader pointed out only one wide field dual cannon can equipped on any ship, so it is not something you can use to replace all of your dual cannons. The comment was spot on and I do use a wide field dual cannon on ships with an all single cannon front weapons layout.

A while back I wrote an article where I spoke of the issue of dual cannons versus single cannons, Kazon Raider and the Dual Cannon Conundrum. One of my readers commented about the wide field dual heavy cannons being crafted and sold on the exchange.

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