Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4957813-20140510034158/@comment-4485275-20140603220728

No, you misunderstand, the magazine is a large box, with one of those helix things inside it to shift ammo from the front half to the rear one, so where it's pulled out to the firing chamber, with an external magazine facilitating faster reloads, more ammo capacity, and structural intergrity.

Remeber though, Flails, by nature, aren't very well balanced weapons, given a large portion of their weight is freely swinging around, which means we aren't really losing much.