Unless I'm missing something?
My reading of space combat is that all the ammo is stored in the cargo bay and teams of powder monkeys are needed to haul a missile and sand barrel to each turret so they can be fired each round a technique that went out with the age of sail and is hampered by lack of powder monkeys too.
No where could I find a turret capacity for sand or missiles. No where is automation implied. Ammo shouldn't be stored as cargo unless excess ammo carried. There should be hoppers built into the hull bulkheads that feed sand barrels and missiles to each turret as fired and should be untouched by sophont hands until new ones are loaded or a destroyed turrets ammo is manually moved to a different turret. (That too should be automated on bigger or high tech designs.)
Magazine equipped ships are presumably as efficient as ones on warships today on military vessels. I didn't check.
My reading of space combat is that all the ammo is stored in the cargo bay and teams of powder monkeys are needed to haul a missile and sand barrel to each turret so they can be fired each round a technique that went out with the age of sail and is hampered by lack of powder monkeys too.
No where could I find a turret capacity for sand or missiles. No where is automation implied. Ammo shouldn't be stored as cargo unless excess ammo carried. There should be hoppers built into the hull bulkheads that feed sand barrels and missiles to each turret as fired and should be untouched by sophont hands until new ones are loaded or a destroyed turrets ammo is manually moved to a different turret. (That too should be automated on bigger or high tech designs.)
Magazine equipped ships are presumably as efficient as ones on warships today on military vessels. I didn't check.