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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Sorry for the long-winded explanation, but I'm always fixated on getting the whole story out.
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That's perfectly fine! I enjoy your long-winded responses. I'm all about accuracy and historical realism down to the finest nut and bolt. After all, if you aren't going to do a thing 100% correct the first time, then why bother?
I looked around and saw the "good crews could fire 15-18 rounds per minute, or one every 3-5 seconds." This did not specify whether these numbers were test firing under controlled conditions, or if these were combat specs.
I know that during my Army days I was told by an artilleryman that a 105mm light, towed field piece rate of fire was:
Maximum: 8 rpm for 3 minutes
Sustained: 3 rpm for 30 minutes
So you could rapid fire a shot every 7.5 seconds, but after 3 minutes the gun had to cool down or you would risk damage or breach failure (not a good thing, as it's obvious what happens during breach failure).
3rpm is a shot every 20 seconds. Now these are Army specs for land pieces on stable ground.
But either way, we see a combat reload time of 7.5-20 seconds, and this is with a stable gun platform. So I don't know where these people are coming up with a shot every 3-4 seconds. The gun would blow up from overheating IF the crew could even keep this rate of fire up.
I'll use the template of 8 for the 88mm, and 12 for the 105mm and go from there I suppose, unless somebody has a more realistic parameter setting.