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I've acquired 4 of these, finally going to indulge in the joys of seige warfare, got Stronghold Assault, but looking at these turret jobbys, they're a bit boring.
Sure, they can use the tried-and-true Punisher and Battlecannon, but they don't really grab my attention.

What I want to do is come up with is a balanced addition to the options for these, in the form of giving them fitting synergy with the Taghmata, and in tweaking the balance, seek the feedback from your goodselves.

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In a basic sense, these batteries are just Russ weapons on an immovable platform, so ideal candidates to get weapon options from seem to be the Krios, Thanatar, and Knights:

Weapons:
[+10 pts] Lightning Cannon
[+35 pts] Volkite Chieorovile
[+60 pts] Hellex mortar - unlikely
[+65 pts] Sollex Lascannon - unlikely
[+0 pts] TL'd Darkfire Cannon (doesn't get hot)

Options:
[+20 pts] Emergency Grav Field:
"Should an enemy approach the battery (gets within 3"), the battery will route all power to a Grav Field generator, immediately sending out a wave (3") away from its base, but disabling the gun for the next shooting phase."
- Any model hit, friend or foe, must resolve a single Graviton Pulse hit against it, at AP4. (Haywyre and all that, but without the lingering field).
[+10 pts] Anbaric Claw
- Should an opponent attempt to contest the battery, whilst a friendly model is in base contact, the Claw can be triggered by the friendly "operator".
[+40 pts] Advanced Console (This one I'm a bit touch-and-go about; iffy to balance, might be better split up)
- Basically allows a Magos to, for all intents and purposes, interact with the battery as if it were a Robot.
(Battlesmithing, Cyberthurgy, but with the ability to control the battery's firing from Cortex Controller range)
- [Dropped from +60 to +40, for the sake of not making this pointless to use when there are Krios and Russes trundling about for 125 pts]

Sounds like a very nice idea.

I would still tweak the rules a bit.

First of all, why does the grav field has AP2? In general graviton weaopns in Heresy only have AP4, so why change it? Or are you supposing to use the blunt 40k grav rules, instead of the elegant weapons, from the time before the Imperium If you think of those, 20 points is way to cheap prized in my oppinion.

Second on the choice of possible weapons: I think the Hellex is way to powerfull for such a platform and the Volkite Chieorovile should be at 35 points at least.

I appreciate the input, thankyou.

First of all, why does the grav field has AP2? In general graviton weaopns in Heresy only have AP4, so why change it? Or are you supposing to use the blunt 40k grav rules, instead of the elegant weapons, from the time before the Imperium If you think of those, 20 points is way to cheap prized in my oppinion.

I was basing it off the Graviton Imploder, which has the Graviton rule, instead of the Gun and Cannon, which use Graviton Pulse (and are AP4).

Now that I think about it, Fluffwise, a long standing building makes more sense to have a Graviton Pulse weapon, as oppose to Graviton, which was the adaptation of Dark Age grav weaponry for new stuff.

Second on the choice of possible weapons: I think the Hellex is way to powerfull for such a platform and the Volkite Chieorovile should be at 35 points at least.

The thought of the Hellex and Sollex being too powerful did cross my mind when I reckoned a points cost almost as much as the battery itself.
Wasn't too sure on the Chieorovile myself, only having used it once (and killing one guy before my Knight canned it), so trying to gauge its power was ffpt.