Where do YOU guys put your ammo?

[Paragon]

Title. Ammo tends to explode when shot and if it does takes the entire component with it, making its position rather important. Also it can be on the other side of the mech from the guns without penalty because in the future ammo delivery systems are eons ahead of missle engineering.

Where do you like to put it? If I can afford to I tend to leave all of it in a section with nothing else, but the downsides to this are if the section goes so does a good part of my firepower.

Distributing it makes it more likely that a section explodes due to it, taking other valuable stuff with it, but at least your guns can still shoot for a bit.

[SertanDoom]

I put my ammo in enemy mechs :D

[The Pollie]

I generally weigh the cost of what happens if it pops. IE; if all my guns are on the left arm and torso, put it on the left side and shield with the right. If guns are all over, put it where it'll at least only knock its own gun offline, since I won't have the ammo to fire it anymore anyway.

[The Pollie]

Center torso is bad. You can lose the armour there and have the ammo kill you to a single 4 damage LRM or machinegun, despite having otherwise survived the shot with plenty of structure left.

[Alexandryos]

Small tons of ammo can be fit in the head, central and legs. M carriers, their launcher torso/arm.

[Thergin]

I usually put it in a leg, if it blows I have one leg left, and jump jets

[BoydofZINJ]

Head is a good spot... then legs. However, I been using cockpit mods and so using legs mostly.

[Cormac]

depents. on an long range sniper, it's not that important. either on the same side as the gun (if my ammo explodes in the right torso, the gun in the left arm isn't worth much anymore) very very very rearly CT and only if i'm 100% sure, that the ammo will be below 50% befor that mech get's somewhere onto close combat (ac/2 and ac/5 as well as lrm ammo) but even than, i'm trying to place them elsewere.
if one side is completly unarmed, i'm using that side as a shield (turning it towards the enemy) until it's armor is somewhat damaged, worsed case until the armor is destroyed, so i'm sticking with the ammo on the same side as the weapon anyway.
if i get the same gun on both sides, i'm spreading the ammo as well.
90% of all times side torso of the same weapon, 5% of the oposite side, 4% in legs (i don't like to get one of those blown up thanks to a crit) and 1% in CT/head.

[ZaydinTTV]

I usually put it in the legs, same as I do in MWO.

[Drain]

Logically the ammo should go where the gun is, no where else. How else would the gun be able to shoot? The problem here is that not even the stock builds obey this logic, and commonly put the ammo everywhere else. You then have to pay money and waste time fixing them. This is the problem with a slot system. For some reason, the MW 4 titles were the only ones with really good customization, and by that, I mean they got rid of the slot system. There's no benefit to it existing. It just allows you to cheat. It's not as bad as MW 2 though, which allowed you to put all your guns in torsos.

[Cormac]

it seems i'm a minority in putting my ammo in the torso.... because i would rather lose the torso including arm and weapons than getting knocked down at the wrong time just to get calledshot to death. but well, it's goot to have different playstyles

[Redux]

Ammo explosions do not transfer in BTG, mechs act like they have C.A.S.E. installed. Thus optimal ammo locations are as follows.

Head -> Lowest chance to receive a hit, structural damage is death anyways.

Legs -> Lower chance to be hit in close range, rarely a focus fire target for heavy and assault mechs, losing legs isn't really a debilitating issue for heavies, assaults, or jump jet equipped mechs. Don't put the ammo in the legs of lights, or smaller mediums as they're often primary target locations and can cost you a lot of firepower.

Arms -> Lower chance to be hit at long range, rarely a focus fire target, if an arm is lost and the weapon is lost you don't need the ammo anyways, and weapon critical locations reduce odds for the ammo to be hit. Don't put ammo in the arms in brawlers or other CQC mechs as you should be using the arms to block incoming damage.

Side Torsos -> Great location for ammo for brawler and close range mechs, and mechs that you intend to do Death From Above with. Also a great location for ammo if you have torso mounted guns to help absorb incoming critical damage. Side Torsos are also non-critical components because we don't have XL engines yet. If a mech loses it's torso and it's torso mounted weapons, it doesn't need the ammo anyways.

Center Torso -> The worst location on the entire mech to put ammo. The most often hit location, and the most often focused location. It doesn't have many components to soak criticals either, so criticals to the CT are most often going to hit the few components placed inside of it. Also the most important location on the mech to protect, and the hardest to do so. Ammo in the CT is a death sentence.

Ex: Jagermech ammo goes in the legs because it's a long range heavy you don't DFA with.
Ex: Shadowhawk ammo goes in the side torsos with the guns because it's a medium, and it's often in close quarters combat so it's prone to losing it's arms and legs.
Ex: Jenner ammo goes in the side torsos because it's a light mech that often finds itself fighting in close quarters and is prone to losing it's arms and legs.
Ex: Blackjack ammo goes in the arms because they're unlikely to be hit at long range, and the primary guns are lost when the arms are destroyed.
Ex: Atlas ammo goes in the enemy mechs because on the Atlas is likely to be destroyed ever, and even if it is the Atlas probably doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ anyway and is going to punch you in the ♥♥♥♥.

The head is the priority location for ammo, but it prevents use of cockpit mods like +3 injury resistance or +2 moral gain which are much more valuable.

Hope this helps, and stay frosty.

[JaM]

i'm using a lot of SRM6s, and i always put ammo to the front torso.. its best armored, therefore best protection.

[Major Horrigan]

are you really sure you want to know?

[Nuee]

Just a wild hair. One of the mechs had no hard points on one arm... that makes that arm expendable. Good spot for ammo for the few cases like that.

[Aedh]

Top shelf, I concur.

Originally posted by SquidBob:

I put my ammo in enemy mechs :D