Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "HMS Neptune - Guide 294 (NB)" video.

my guess is if a cruiser got into a fight you wanted to have several salvos of torpedoes at the ready because reloading torpedo launchers under fire is quite dangerous compared to gun mounts, i don't think they intended to launch 16 torpedoes all at once, that would have been insanely expensive and they wouldn't have had many reloads on board
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