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Originally Posted by Kingfish72
They fire one barrel at a time because that's realistic. In real life they didn't fire all three at the same time because it hurts accuracy. I like it the way it is. It seems as if accuracy has increased with this change in the game as well. =)
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Actually it doesn't hurt accuracy at all. Standard procedure was to fire a salvo of one barrel from each gun at the same time, left barrels first. Then a salvo from all three middle barrels, then from the right. The purpose was to prevent damage to your own ship. A fine example of this is the records of HMS
Rodney in the
Bismarck engagement.
Rodney spent most of the battle firing salvos as described. When the range was down to about 4000 yards
Rodney started firing full broadsides. As a result the ship sustained severe damage in several places that took weeks to repair.
On the other hand smaller ships tended to fire full broadsides, as it made fire control simpler. The firing ship needs to spot where the shots land and that is very difficult when they're flying about at random.
So the realistic way would be to have one gun from each turret fire simultaneously. All guns firing at once is less likely, but having them fire one at a time - bang! bang! bang! - is also quite unrealistic.