Spheroid, on 07 April 2015 - 07:38 AM, said:
The Enforcer shell count is very specific and unambigious. Stream of bullets or hail of gunfire are completely subjective however.
The seeming discrepancy is actually explained in the second BT novel, The Sword and the Dagger:
"Ardan ran a hurried check on his Victor's main armament. The right arm Pontiac 100 autocannon had the best chance of scoring a crippling hit on the Thunderbolt, but he was afraid that his swim in the mud might have fouled its feed mechanism. The autocannon was a devastating weapon. It fired high-speed, rapid-fire streams of explosive, armor-piercing shells from cassettes or carousels fed into the gun one at a time by a complex and occasionally balky autoloader mechanism. Each cassette held 100 shells, and by a widespread but commonly accepted looseness of terminology, each cassette was itself considered to be one round. One cassette round was already loaded. Nineteen more were stored in the autoloader chamber high up in his Victor's right torso. He would have to use that single round carefully, because if the loader jammed, he would not get another chance." - The Sword and the Dagger, ch. 13
When the TROs talk about how the ENF-4R Enforcer (which only carries one ton of ammunition - enough for 10 salvos/"rounds" - for its AC/10) uses "big, ten-round clips that are easily slipped into and out of the 'Mech's back", the argument would be that the "clip" would refer to the whole 1-ton ammo bin (such that the 'Mech can be reloaded by sliding the expended ammo bin out & sliding a new one into its place) & each of those 10 "rounds" is itself a magazine/cassette containing a set of multiple individual shells that are all fired in a burst each time the trigger is pulled.