Super Galaxy!! *dum* *dum*
Lol. Well a lot of people consider the Galaxy the worst ship you can be flying in Privateer fighting ability-wise. I flew one years ago and had to agree. I haven't really tried flying one this last time I played Privateer, but I just thought of a great idea on how you can turn the Galaxy into maybe the strongest ship you can have, stronger than the Centurion!
As most of you probably know and feel, turrets are mostly useless in Privateer because they don't shoot for themselves and you can't move your ship while shooting from your turret (although you can still afterburn). They are also harder to control since they don't always "move" in the normal intuitive way. There is no ITTS from the turret, and aiming backwards is super hard because your guns' projectile velocity is relative to your ship's velocity. If they aren't pointing in the same direction your shots will go flying off in weird directions not quite what you'd expect. For the same reason, if you are shooting backwards from your turret at an enemy who is still running away from you, your shots will never reach him because he will be running at faster speed than your bullets.
So what can you do with your top and bottom turrets in the Galaxy? Well, when you take off they start out pointing forward. Go into each turret and carefully move them up/down to aim them all directly straight ahead of your ship. Now, when you are in battle you can do a nifty trick. Whenever you fire your main pair of guns, immediately after the bullets appear, hit F5+F6 simultaneously without letting go of Spacebar. Then a massive volley of 6 shots will come out of your front! It's just like flying a ship with 6 forward facing guns!! Then hit F1 again and wait until your guns can fire again. Repeat forever if you want.
I haven't tried using this technique in-battle yet but I have tested it out and it seems awesome. I'd recommend buying 6 neutron guns for this strategy. Tachyon guns refire too quickly, so it's better to buy a slow refiring but more damaging gun, because it will make this technique easier on your fingers. Plasma guns eat up more energy than neutron guns and you probably need all the energy you can spare while firing heavy weaponry like this, so I think neutron guns will be best.
You might not always have enough energy or even a need for the massive damage potential of 6 neutron guns (one direct hit will probably kill most ships). What you can do is fly around normally without the trick, but at any moment when you feel you need extra blaster power or have a sure-fire opening to hit, hit F5+F6 and suddenly get 4 extra super powerful scary gunshots out of nowhere.
What do you guys think of this?