When would you put Heavy Turbolaser Turrets on something, vs using X17...?

You wouldn't

The only case I can think of is to snipe Raiders and Nebulons at long range using Disposable Capacitors, but it is a very weak case.

When you can reliably hit 10+ damage and atleast one accuracy but they have electronic countermeasures?

So, very niche.

7 hours ago, Grey Mage said:

When you can reliably hit 10+ damage and atleast one accuracy but they have electronic countermeasures?

So, very niche.

Yes against large ship targets they are slightly better particularly with ECM. But then an Intel Officer and XI7s would be better still or just the Intel Officer and a dice boosting Turbolaser like QBT, DTTs.

So far, every ship in the game with a Defensive Retrofit slot also has a Redirect token. So an accuracy cannot stop a brace, but X17s WILL stop the Redirect every time, meaning all that damage you get goes to the most vulnerable hull zone.

On 16.8.2017 at 10:55 PM, Stovrose38 said:

When would you put Heavy Turbolaser Turrets on something, vs using X17...?

For all intents and purposes: never.

3 hours ago, thecactusman17 said:

So far, every ship in the game with a Defensive Retrofit slot also has a Redirect token.

Except Tua Raiders and Gozantis

1 hour ago, PT106 said:

Except Tua Raiders and Gozantis

Every built in Defensive Retrofit.