Pawing through my recently arrived manual for the Eaglemoss USS Vengeance figurine, I found a concept sketch that suggested a neat new weapon type we could use in STO: the "Broadside Torpedo".
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It would work like normal torpedoes of each class, but the firing arc would be two 90° cones extending to each side of the ship. In exchange for the larger arc -- which is still considerably smaller than the half-sphere of wide angle torpedoes -- Broadside torpedoes would have a slightly longer cooldown (+15%?) than their front and rear facing counterparts.
It would work like normal torpedoes of each class, but the firing arc would be two 90° cones extending to each side of the ship. In exchange for the larger arc -- which is still considerably smaller than the half-sphere of wide angle torpedoes -- Broadside torpedoes would have a slightly longer cooldown (+15%?) than their front and rear facing counterparts.