Are Carronades useable?

This is something I've been questioning for a while and I figured I'd ask the general public.

I know that I can get some pretty interesting abilities by training Swift, like the slow, but I feel like the total lack of range really kills it on any ship. So if you either want to help me improve my Carronade play or just tell me how it is, please do.

 

It really depends on the ship you use and your play style. Carronades are the best for close combat. What they lack in range is compensated by it's short cooldown. I wouldn't recommend use it on a shooter or defender. I've been using it on my fixer for a while (maxed carronade 7x215 dmg). I can't play without it

 

My answer would be... Improve your carronade play.
First of all, let me help you by telling you the pros, cons and suggestions for carromade.

Description:
- Close range, yet powerful weapon (maybe not powerful at low tier, but it can do up to 200 per projectile at epic T5)
- Short cool down time (allows high damage in a short period of time, which means higher DPS output)
- High damage (Convenient tesla shield breaker!)

Pros:
- High damage (as said before)
- Short reload time (as said before)
- Great for sudden burst of damage
- Causes panic to enemy (seeing so much health taken at once, but it depends)
Cons:
- Only for short range (not useful on shooter, defender and maybe fixer)
- Weak to defence points (they significantly reduce carbonnade damage as they reduce damage for each projectile)
- Not all projectiles might hit (only if you miss of course)

Overall suggestions:
- Best used on yellow ships i.e. Speeder and Enforcer
- Best used as an sudden attack weapon or self defence
- Can be used to break tesla shield

Carronade is a weapon with very high potential, so hope all these help with your carronade play!
P.S. I'm not that good at carronade either so you could wait for more replies