[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Deathstalker:

"Gatling weapons wear out after significant use (how to accomplish this; I don't know)"

This is simulated in the game by maintenance cost. It's true that military hardware of all sorts 'wears out' very quickly and is replaced. A jet engine is only good for a few hundred hours, for example, even at normal (non combat) performance and with perfect maintenance record. I've heard that the planes on a carrier end up costing many times as much as the carrier itself.

Anyway, gatling mounts should have a much, much higher than normal increase in cost/peformance ratio if you want to simulate a technology pushed to its limits.