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John Nitpick here to uphold the mantle of unemployment and provide unsolicited feedback on other people's hard work.

The K41's laser being coaxial makes less sense - in my opinion - than the laser simply having it's own dedicated housing with an articulated mirror on the turret roof. A roof-mounted laser enables the expensive laser generator to be housed inside the vehicle, allows the installation of an articulated mirror (likely larger than that of a barrel-mounted laser, because the unit's weight is no longer slowing down vertical traverse of the main cannon), enabling the weapon to engage a wider range of targets with more precision (such as aircraft and missiles, something a full-size tank turret would struggle to track) and allows the mirror to pull double duty as a high quality sensor - something that a standalone unit on the tank barrel can't do. 

The removal of a barrel-mounted laser would also allow the K41 to mount a coaxial machine gun - which is arguably more effective as an anti-infantry weapon to due to its ability to create a beaten zone visible to the enemy (thereby increasing the its suppressive capability), whereas the suppressive fire of a laser is less noticeable due to it's greatly decreased visual and audio signature. 

Having a roof-mounted laser would also provide some gameplay alterations that I think would be interesting to play around - even if the laser can't engage the player directly, having it intercept munitions like rockets and spiderbombs would make the K41 much better in the heavily-armored standoff role its description seems to imply it is meant to fulfill. I personally think it would go a long way to detrivializing an enemy to whom my normal response is to sit behind a building and lob spiderbombs and grenades at. 

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I fully agree. Looking back at the art I drew, the laser was actually supposed to be the small dome with a circle mounted on the right side of the turret, I messed up calling it "coaxial" while rushing the descriptions due to time constraints. I will be revising all of the art and writing over time, I'm not happy with it.

There's also going to be some much heavier tanks in the game later on that'll be almost twice the size, featuring both APS and laser weapons to stop the player's missiles. They probably behave sort of like a hybrid between the K41/Minotaur and the C-RAM turrets

BIGGER!?!?

what