Meteor defense ammo requirements?

[Jeris777]

I've been playing survival, and I started with the meteors option turned to "safe." I'm far enough now that I have Gatling turrets to defend my base against meteors from all angles. But before I set the meteors to "normal," how much ammo will I need to defend against a meteor storm on normal meteor severity?

[Dardomor]

depends on your base/ship design!

You could place the turrets in a way that they will only shoot the meteors that approach your construct. By placing walls around it.

Haven't tested it myself, read it somewhere in another guide or discussion..

[Twelve]

real men mine while being hit by meteors

edit1 - but 10 magazines per turret will last you several meteor storms at least.

edit 2- you will need multiple turrets with overlapping lines of fire, also recomend keeping range at 600 or less to reduce ammo wastage.

[Jeris777]

Thanks to both of you. The advice has been helpful.
EDIT 1: I put a few turrets on my mobile base, so that it can get rid of meteors from any angle. I mean, sure, the turrets started shooting at my asteroid station until I could stop them from targeting it anymore, but it's nothing I can't repair.
EDIT 2: Now that I've repaired my asteroid station (thanks, mobile base), I decided to put turrets of its own on it. But for now, I had to make a supply run of sorts, because I was running low on Magnesium (and ammo), and the asteroid my station is built into doesn't have any. Good thing I was able to jump to an asteroid that does! (My mobile base has a jump drive, so it's more mobile than some mobile bases)