Basically , yes , but it ' s too late . There are multiple different ways that turrets could have been better designed in XWing . One is to use mobile arcs instead of turrets . Another is to make secondary weapons apply range bonuses instead of ignoring them . Yet another would be have turrets ONLY be secondary weapons , never primary , so you have to pay the points and deal with whatever range restrictions or other special rules your turret of choice has . Unfortunately , at this point , turrets and many other fundamental game mechanics will not be reworked until and unless there ' s an XWing 2 . 0 that does all the major changes all at once . I would not be surprised if that happened someday , but I would guess that we ' re many years away from it still .