SWM wrote:Dilandu's point was that the guns on the Wasa cannot be aimed sideways enough to point parallel to each other. On later ships they could and did, so that all could be aimed at the same target at the same time. On the Wasa, only a few guns could be aimed at the target at the same time.
Except that yes they can...
This is not an unknown or uncertainty, this is KNOWN.The only exception are the front chaser gun ports.
http://www.greydragon.org/trips/stockholm/vasa049.jpg
http://nauticalarch.org/galleries/proje ... _Fig_3.jpg
http://www.vasamuseet.se/ImageVaultFile ... llen_2.JPG
Just do some image searching until you find more pictures with better perspective.