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giant crabs hell yeah

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. 

Fantastic update. Looking forward to further developments. 120mm cannon feels a little on the weaker side of things currently. It's susceptible to hitting buildings and cars and such like other weapons, but doesn't have the ability to rapidly follow through like other weapons - it takes more skill to use, but it doesn't feel particularly more rewarding. I'd much rather take any of the autocannons than the 120 because they let me take far more fights (with way less risk of blowing myself up) while sacrificing what feels to be a negligible amount of DPS.

Minor nitpick on the worldbuilding: a 5 petawatt laser drills through something like 20 kilometers of graphite a second (I think). I know it's "ultra high energy" but by the prophets it doesn't "violently ignite" or "sear a hole", it turns whatever it's looking at into a rapidly expanding cloud of ionized plasma, regardless of whether or not it's fleshy. I'm pretty sure a weapon like that would make armor irrelevant.