Spaceships: Missile launchers and their individual mass

[Langy]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

As to what you can do, the simple answer is ignore the issue. Spaceships is a very low detail system and whether the SM+5 Main Battery launcher is one reloadedable tube with 6 reloads or 7 non-reloadable tubes is below the system's level of resolution.

Not really. With reloads, it can only fire a single missile a turn. With non-reloadable tubes, it can fire all of the missiles at the same time.

Personally, I simply take half of the missiles that the battery would normally hold and use that as the number of launch tubes. You lose some missiles because now each missile cell needs to either be strong enough to withstand the missile's exhaust (for a hot launch) or include machinery to toss the missile a bit away from the ship (a cold launch). Either way, you have an increased amount of mass.