The proposed gun layout creates three separate main-ammunition magazines. Engine and boiler rooms sit between them, so shells could not be passed freely from one group to another. This arrangement means the simulation's simultaneous loss of every main gun's ammunition does not represent the ship's compartment layout. Machinery placement therefore shapes ammunition handling and damage containment as well as propulsion.
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Machinery spaces separate the main magazines
Engine and boiler rooms divide the ship's three main-magazine groups and prevent ammunition from moving freely between them.