How do terminators reload their stormbolters?

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**Baldysteve**

Like the video clip, however I think it's more like Arnie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2Q0W2V4q0

Whilst he does change weapons every 1000 rounds or so, I think termies use the same system as the belt fed M60, it just keeps coming, just like a storm bolter?????

**Darth Bob**

I've always imagined them having Servo Skulls floating around them waiting to reload their weapons if they become desperate for the ammo. Otherwise, they take it as an opportunity to bash something in close combat.

**AnFéasógMór**

throwoff wrote:
Isn't the average game of 40k meant to last about 90 seconds of real world time?

I would assume a double wide storm bolter mag holds 50 rounds minimum as a normal sickle mag holds 30 according to the fluff.

90 seconds with 50 rounds is a about a bolt every 2 seconds which makes sense, thesr are marines, they judge their shots and make every round count. Reloading happens after the engagement and before the next one, perhaps the regular marines catch up and hand them fresh magazines before moving off to the next combat.

For fire suppression they have Flamers and assault cannons to lay down continuous fire.

Eh, I'd guess probably more like 30-50 minutes, if you guess like 3 minutes per movement phase, more or less instantaneous psychic phase, 1 minute per shooting phase, and 2 minutes per close combat phase.

I'd still say since a termi is mostly gonna be in close combat, yeah, about 50 rounds sounds good.

**Keep**

except you dont do those things one after another in real combat... you do those things simultaneously.

**jayko657**

According to Pandorax, stormbolters reload automatically, whirring as they do. But in Master of Sanctity, a newbie terminator reaches for his thigh to grab a magnetically-clamped magazine, with his power fist deactivated of course. So, it sounds like the box magazines act like, well, box magazines, and they just store more on their legs and other parts of their armor until those boxes go dry. He does initially try to make every shot count, but was yelled at for treating the storm bolter like a sniper rifle.