Personally, I'd rather pair an ion weapon and laser cannon than double down on the ion+tractor beam, but thats just my opinion.<br/><br/>If I'm misreading the rules right, it says a combined weapon system always costs 1 hard point. So we could add a light ion cannon or repeating ion cannon for 1 hard point, to go with the dual laser with start with - probably in a separate turret on the belly. At some point later, upgrading the dual laser to a heavy laser could be done for 0 HP, or upgrade it to a quad-cannon for 1 HP. Reading the rules for Linked, the 4/4 repeating ion with Linkedx4 is probably better than the 5/4 light ion.<br/><br/>Going heavier on the guns than that probably isn't efficient. We have impressively heavy armor, we can win duels of attrition and keep our other hardpoint slots for upgrades. Plus, having only 3 crew with one of those a pilot means we can fire 2 guns per turn max anyways. Nobody has Gunnery yet either.