If you have a spaceship where the main* weapon is a front facing particle accelerator beam, and the secondary armament was banks of lasers, would it be better to have said lasers in fixed positions on the sides, maybe angled so they can aim up or down? Or would it be better to have fewer and stick them in turret assemblies?
*Everyone knows the real main weapons are rows and rows of missile racks but those are gay and I don't want to talk about them