[Reaper]

here is my take on the 2 differnt laser turrets shown in the series. I concider the smaller barrel laser turret to be dedicated anti starfighter armaments. These lasers are only powerful enough to take out raiders.

The other turrets, the ones with the beefier barrels are alot more powerful, although used for anti starfighter tasks, these are the turrets that also fire on capital ships. I've always thought that when firing on raiders, the turrets are powered down, say to 1/8th full power, more then enough to splatter a Raider, but barely taking a chunck out of the laser capasiters.

When the battlestar (or any Colonial ship) enages a basestar, these guns power up to full and can do some damage to the basestar.

what do you guys think?