Ammo loadouts

[seadog]

Im toying around with introducing ammo limits on ships. How many turns of firing would you allow ships before they ran out? would different types (dd, cl, bb) be able to fire for longer, or would the lighter guns higher ROF chew their ammo loadouts faster?

[regiamarina]

I'm not hugely familiar with ammo specifics but I know during the Battle of Cape Spada the HMAS Sydney was running low on ammo after an hour of intense gunfire exchange. The Sydney was a modified Leander light cruiser with 8 x 6" guns so should have a reasonably high rate of fire I guess.

Martin

[TheDreadnought]

They carried quite a bit of ammunition. 100 rounds per gun was typical for the big guns. Many more for the small ones.

I'd expect sustained fire could be maintained for 10 - 12 turns.

[afilter]

I suspect this would be more of an issue when playing campaign vs a particular battle. I have used it in another game and it proved to be over cumbersome for record keeping with everything else going on.

[seadog]

thanks for the responses.

The main reason I was looking at adding this was to discourage pointless long range gunnery duels between destroyers. We use a hit score of 10 for DD's. my mates and I have played java sea 3 times with nearly 30 dd's.

In that battle the Perth was supposedly los on ammo, so I as curious as to how many salvos it could fire

[ckosacranoid]

that is a lot of DD'S to run......30....wow

[regiamarina]

The Perth was the same class as the Sydney I mentioned previously. So I guess you could say intensive sustained fire for approximately an hour before running low on ammo.

Martin

[afilter]

The great part about this and many other games is you can always add scenario specific rules in an attempt to add historical flavor.

In this case You would allow Perth to fire x amount of turns before adding a negative modifyer or limiting the number of guns that can fire per turn or something like that.

[TheDreadnought]

Or try the victory points rules for limited ammunition.