[Penelope_Grey]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Here's the often used link for deck gun crew efficiency

http://uboat.net/technical/guns.htm

Based on the info on that page, a skilled deck gun crew... if they can fire 15-18 rounds a minute... 60 seconds divided by 15 gives you a perfect, 4 seconds reload. If they were really good and fired 18 a minute, you talking just a little bit more than 3 seconds.

Either way assuming you have a skilled gun crew that fills the bar, then if you set reload to 3 or 4 seconds, you are still according to that playing within the bounds of realistic.