I am HamsterIV and I am a Artiholic. After the gat was nerfed I was lost and confused. I was loosing and I didn't know why. Then I heard a sickeningly sweet voice in the back of my head "Why not the Artemis?" it said. "You can shut down another ship from across the map. If your gunner can't shoot strait there are two more on the ship, odds are one of your crew can shoot. What does it matter that the other ship won't be able to retaliate?" In my desperation and madness I listened to that silvered tongue succubus and made the Artemis my go to weapon for teaching new crew.
The thing is a bit OP especially since you can stack them on any ship that has a 90 degree gun overlap. It has a decent clip size and no shot drop so new people can be effective with it after almost no training. I hate to say it, but this gun probably needs an arming time. It is just too good at both long range and short range fighting. Especially since by the time the enemy gets to short range fighting their engines are so badly damaged they can't use speed to take advantage of the Artemis' poor turn rate.