Gatling Gauss

Overview
The Gatling Gauss is a rapid fire projectile gun which fires unguided high-velocity rounds.

Compared to Phasers and Rocket Launchers, they have superior range and slightly better firepower at the cost of being more difficult to hit with, since it requires aiming ahead of enemy targets.

Despite this setback, Gatling Gauss boasts some of the highest potential damage in the game due to its ability to drill into large targets and hit smaller targets.

Usage
Gatling Gauss is quite popular on almost all ship designs, but where it shines most is on Frigates, due to their high speed mixing well with Gatling Gauss' high DPS.

A common tactic used by Frigates Involves stunning isolated or weak targets using the Particle Burst module, and then hitting them with Gatling Gauss while staying alive with a Shield.

Gatling Gauss also make great starter weapons on Rookie Ships because of their superior range compared to the other 2 starting weapons and high focused damage against other starter ships.

Destroyers wielding Gatling Gauss are able to make short work of any that comes within range, due to their bonus 25% damage making such a design one of the highest damage dealers in the game.

Countering
The biggest weakness of the Gatling Gauss is its short range compered to tier 2 weapons like the Gauss Cannon. Because of this, taking out ships using them from a distance using longer ranged weapons like Cruise Missiles before they can fire is recommended.

While Gatling Gauss is able to drill into ships, Battleships using longer ranged weapons are able to take out slower moving ships using Gatling Gauss such as Destroyers if they position themselves so that their armour is facing the ship

Trivia

 * Gatling Gauss is the only tier 1 weapon which has more than 1.500m Range.


 * Gatling Gauss is actually able to hit targets slightly past its listed 2.000m range