Oh sure, I agree 100% that a gunner is necessary on a heavy gun. I made that clear a few posts ago. This discussion is more about light guns.
I cant agree as a bona fide expert on all things heavy flak i can tell you this isnt true, and i imagine that's the case with a few of the others.
anyway that's not why i decided to post. I had an idea about loch shot. namely how to reintroduce it into the game and buff gunners in the process.
So for context loch shot does essentially 250% damage (it adds 150%) and that's kinda awesome. So awesome they had to nerf its utility and cripple it in other ways.
WHY? because it was an all the times thing
My idea would be to let it act like normal rounds (still only firing one at a time) but give you a finite number of shots with it, lets say 3.
Its prolly not worth it for an engi to take, but a gunner has free slots.