Ammo Box

Appearance
The ammo Box is a green box with a bullets symbol on it. It is located right next to the ventral and upper-mid turrets, and next to the medical bed. When a gun has an ammo feed, wires on the sides of the plane with bullets in them can be seen, connected to the gun equipped with an ammo feed and the ammo box.

Usage
The ammo box is used as a place to refill ammo belts on turrets that have used up their share. Any crewmember can pickup ammo from the box. To refill a turret's ammo belts, of which they have 3 when fully stocked, a crew member must be ordered to get ammo from the ammo box, then ordered to the turret. If a crew member is sitting in a turret at the time of the first order to move to the ammo box, they will grab the ammo and automatically walk back to their station.

The ammo box is critical for all missions at the start of the game, as you will not have ammo feeds and therefore your crew will have to move to the ammo box quite often.

Strategy
Buying ammo feeds for your bomber is very helpful later on, as gunners at the tail and nose will have to walk a long distance to get ammo. Because of that, a good layout for your turrets is the following: Back gunner and nose gunner get ammo feed guns, and the gunners at ventral and mid-upper turrets get heavier and more powerful guns. Ammo feeds will make you have infinite ammo belts, but gunners will still have to reload and will take slightly longer to reload.

A good strategy for early bombers is to have a fast crewmember, preferably the engineer, to go to the ammo box prior to a turret running out of ammo belts. When the gun is about to run out, send the engineer to refill it so that it can keep firing without the gunner having to wait a bit or get up.

Another helpful tactic involving the ammo box is to make the mid-upper and ventral turret gunners go to the ammo box instead of reloading their gun normally when they have spare ammo belts. This is only viable when your gunner is not weighed down by armour, or it will be slower to reload this way.