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A notable piece of missing data in the various vehicles is how much ammo they can carry. In many cases, this might be somewhat extrapolated from their Cargo ratings, but once you get into tank ammo and the ITV's Cargo --, things break down. How has the community dealt with this? On the one hand, I want this to be a function of Cargo; in a world of heavily restricted ammo, the empty racks may as well be used for something. At the same time, I'm wondering if stated rack capacity is the way to go? Perhaps ammo up to a stated capacity gets some divisor of weight as replacing it with things not meant to carried means carrying stuff gets less efficient, in the same way as shifting troop seats to cargo and vice versa.

Some datapoints

• ITV: 10 stowed TOWs, 40 ENC, Cargo nil. M60 missing from stats.
• M1A1: 39 stowed rounds, 312 ENC, Cargo 300. MG ammo not accounted for, but >20 ENC.
• M2: 600 stowed canon rounds, 150 ENC. 5 stowed missiles (TOW, Dragon, and/or Javelin), 20 ENC. 21 stowed coax belts, 21 ENC. 134 stowed mags for PFWs, 134 ENC. Cargo 300 ENC. Additional ammunition for dismounts not accounted for.

I think the reason for this is that there aren't that much vehicle ammunition left in the world. The encounters with vehicles all have very few rounds, usually only a handful.

Since all ammo that aren't in the weapons counts separate for encumbrance and for a vehicle this is just cargo and cargo is cargo, no matter if it is scrap, food or ammo and cargo capacity counts for all cargo, no matter what it is. I do understand that this is not the grognard answer to it. I'm sure those that have more knowledge about these things than I (and probably the average player) can come up with a more crunchy house rule for this.

The disconnect is that cargo numbers just don't add up with the ammo counts on vehicles I'm professionally familiar with. I'm wondering if anyone else has the same experience and how they've resolved it. <shrug>