EMR+Right Officer Skills+Autoforge gets you up to 9x the initial ammo, otherwise it's "only" 3x. In vanilla only the Gryphon has the Autoforge to manage the 9x fleet, and frankly if you've got that great an officer to put on a Gryphon you're far better served with a Hammer Barrage than a Squall.
That's not the most interesting thing though. That this suggestion is currently requesting a nerf for what's already the most underwhelming and least-used large missile weapon in vanilla is the most interesting part of this suggestion.
I do agree with everything retry says, since it's 100% accurate. That said, I've been using Squalls on my Midline fleet in this fourth 0.95 modded capaign to great effect.
Sometimes it aims its rather limited ammo at the wong targets, but that applies to all missiles:
But when it works (I don't even have ECCM on my (PL) Conquests by the way) it's the most kinetic damage intensive weapon in the entire game (with Elite Missile Spec) and gives ships with large missile mounts a huge damage spike as long as they last, the "
overloading a Radiant" kind of damage spikes (with minimal help from other weapons, the enemy AI really not liking to get its hull hit by Mjolnirs really helps):
Then there's also to mention that every single missile-rocket hybrid that's fired from the Squall deals some 250 kinetic damage, which is close to the damage a single Hypervelocity Driver shell does. Start massing them like this and things are going to get deleted, especally if they're over-reliant to their shield being good like ramnants:
In all honesty, despite being potentially very effective, even the humble Medium Sabot Pod has more charges that the Squall. 5 Volleys is an absolute pittance and just one less volley than a Small Sabot SRM. They need to be made cheaper to reflect their low damage potential or they need a lot more ammo to be more widely used.
Nobody that's sane is using them seriously. They're probably one of the most unused weapons in the game right now. They need more ammo.I do not care if they get rebalanced up to costing 30 Ordinance Points, having them get 10 volleys instead of the current 5 would make it compete with all the other large missile weapons.