Where do you store your ammo? (House Rules)

[Pherdnut]

Side torsos or with the weapon in an arm with some exceptions. Legs are vulnerable to hits from 3 sides but tend to be CSed less by the AI. Arms are vulnerable to hits from 2 sides.

Ammo does not live with double heat sinks or + or ++ thermal exchangers in my builds. If only one arm has a weapon of the type, it makes sense to drop the ammo in with that since a blowout elsewhere would make that weapon useless.

But with the right mix of stuff, the decisions get complicated.

As a general rule, I tend to have heat mitigation in legs, one torso and the core. Ammo tends to be in arms or the torso with weapons and vanilla heatsinks only.

 

[shadojak]

Bah! I prefer to store my ammo in the burnt out husks of enemy 'mechs.

 

[LemurFromTheId]

Same location as weapon or an adjacent one. It's an old tabletop house-rule we made to not have to explain how ammo moves from the right foot to the left arm

In practice this means ammo is almost always located in the side torsos.

Do you consider side torsos to be adjacent to each other? Because several mechs shoot from one side torso and draw ammo from the other.

 

[Edmon]

Depends on the strength of the mech's RT/LT versus it's legs.

It's usually in the RT/LT though, since it's the safest place that isn't going to insta-gib the mech.

While it cooking off in a leg might be slightly rarer an event, when it does happen and your mech hits the dirt, it might be as good as dead.

With CT = Cold sweet death, that's an unacceptable risk.

 

[Pherdnut]

Come to think of it, some tank ammo feeds surely must get somewhat complicated I would imagine.

 

[MeiSooHaityu]

In this game, I tend to put the ammo in the corresponding torso location of the weapon it feeds. I find that the ammo explosion isn't as big of an issue in this game due to the lower explosion chance and integrated CASE characteristics, so I tend to not be as afraid to put it in a torso location.

So if the ammo dependent weapon is in the Left Torso or Left Arm, I put the ammo in the Left Torso. If the ammo dependent weapon is in the Right Torso or Right Arm, I put it in the Right Torso.

If the weapon is in the head (like the Shadow Hawk or Grasshopper), I generally just pick a side torso.

If the weapon is in the CT, I also just pick a side torso as well.

Now, when I played MWO, I normally always put ammo in the legs. This was mostly because people rarely shot the legs in the game and I didn't want to put CASE in my IS mechs.

Overall I prefer to put the ammo in the torsos and being able to do that without much trouble in this game makes me happy . I did put ammo in the legs in MWO out of necessity, but I never cared much for the practice because it just seemed like a weird thing to do.

 

[stjobe]

Do you consider side torsos to be adjacent to each other? Because several mechs shoot from one side torso and draw ammo from the other.

Stock 'Mechs I generally leave alone (unless they have ammo in the CT, then it gets moved to the side torso closest to the weapon), For customs, they can't put a weapon in the RT and ammo in the LT, then the ammo needs to be in the same side torso as the weapon (or theoretically in the arm or CT, but in practice it's the same side torso that gets the ammo).

 

[Deaghaidh]

I always put it either in the same location or the adjacent Torso.