I've had some success with Lando with Nien Nunb, Kyle with Blaster Turret and Recon Spec and Dutch with Blaster Turret.

Dutch hands off a Target Lock, Lando gives a free action and Kyle passes a Focus token. Each turn, all three ships fire with a target lock and a Focus. Plus, all three ships have turrets, and if one goes down the remaining two can keep doing the same thing.

I don't think Blaster Turrets will die. Then again I'm always baffled how people manage to actually build lists around it. For me it is never much more than a cheap substitute for the ion turret if you need that point elsewhere for one reason or another.

A cheap substitute that can deal out 3 times as much damage. I don't find them very interchangeable at all really as the Ion is designed to controller enemy movement and the blaster is a support gunship weapon. They're both turrets but to me that's about all they have in common.

I don't see Jax as hailing the death of the thing though. His ability works at range 1 and with a Blaster you really have no reason to ever be at range 1. You don't get any bonus dice, so giving the enemy bonus dice on their counter attack is just a bad idea. Not that he could fly in just to jam the thing, but you should have a squad able to kill off a couple TIE's at close range too.

I'd like to see an autoblaster turret... Range 1 might make it hard to use on a HWK, but I think it would go well on a y-wing...

My friend runs boasters all the time. I think they can be extremely effective. I usually take interceptors so I hate playing against his lists but they do cover the field and don't require nearly as much thought in regard to choosing maneuvers and positioning. I think 4 y-wings with turrets could be an effective list IMHO.

The blaster turret was never really alive; ions are only 1 pt more and are much better at ensuring some damage goes through...never mind the advantages of ionizing your opponents!

I've rarely (read: never) seen BTs on any top tournament squads.