the turrets are on the hull, the sponsons are for the crew to get around the bloody things.
Right. I'm not sure that this still makes sense. Insisting on large sponsons to faciltate pedestrian passage?
I mean, what is the overiding reason to install these large 'carbunkles', just to allow people to stroll around them! I'm assuming you're being ironic here
That said, I still stand by my initial assessment, that this is a seriously overloaded hull, that, while being an interesting concept, just doesn't fit together as a workable design