at least when you zoom in on the SD's you should be able to see each turret

That would be a good idea, many games had that option where you could set a distance from where you could see it or you could set the distance where it becomes less detailed. Some games just made them invisible, but it usually doesnt matter much since in those games its really hard to get close enough to discern the individual turrets from the hull without crashing or being destroyed. Still i think the big turrets that some pictures depict on the sides of the ISDs looks un-star wars like, the pictures without them have a better feel. (Sorry if i was spamming)

I hate these people. The ISD did not have big giant turrets on each side of its superstructure. It had 100 Heavy Turbolasers scattered around the hull, 50 of them in tight 5 Laser Batteries, also 20 Ion cannons scattered

 

The Model used in the films disagrees with you

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/3272/isdguns10jo.th.gif

 

This is from the ISD MKII, four heavy turbolaser turrets with 8 guns each. These are the most powerfull weapons on the ISDII.

64 guns actually

 

There are 4 large turretbases on either sides which acts like a huge pivot, each having 2 turrets again which svivel independently (to a degree), which are equipped with 4 barrels, equaling to 64 guns.

 

4 x 2 = 8 large turretbases

8 x 2 = 16 turrets

16 x 4 = 64 guns (barrels)

Thats the mark two. The Mk. 1 had only two guns on the turret

Thats the mark two. The Mk. 1 had only two guns on the turret

 

Wasn't it four per turbolaser turret and only the ion turret had two?

No Ion cannons on the mkII. The Heavy Ion Cannons that was on the mkI was replaced with the new Heavy Turbolaser batteries that was used on the mkII.

 

On the mkI the turrets are huge dual barreled weapons emplacements.

 

On the mkII they are replaced with 4 huge pivots with 2 turrets on each, with each turret having 4 guns each. Think WWII heavy turrets on the battleships with 4 barrels, but each turret mounted on a huge pivot base again.

all of these pictures proving the isd 1 2 and 3's guns are at warlords. and at the star wars web page.....it isn't really much of a disscusion.

but the isd has too many guns for them all to be represented we need a ballance between the 1 laser that represented all the isd's guns in rebellion and how many there really are though. this is too complicated i pitty you petro