The bottom left HUD with your tank hull and damage indicators has this shell counter not unlike in naval. I’ve no idea what it is and I find nothing on either the wiki, the official site, forums or reddit. I am probably using the wrong search terms.
Is it some kind of ready-use ammo rack that reduces reload speed while it has shells?
You replied yourself.
Confirmation is better than speculation :v.
I wish the wiki page for the firefly mentioned this info.
How does it interact with crew skill? Does loading into and from it both get buffed?
I think moving a piece from the second to the first stage doesn’t change much.
Off-topic, but, If I’m not wrong, the Type 90 and Type 10 has the slowest ready rack reloading outside a capture point.
Also, If I’m not wrong. It only affects reloading first stage to the breech and second stage to the breech. Not second stage to first.
Also: The Wiki lacks of information, specially about specific things or specific values. I really wanted to update all of them but changing and updating information in ~5,000 articles ain’t for me. 💀