Artillery Firing

[GeorgeS]

I had a game last night and, while we see artillery have two range bands, we couldn't see why it has the 3" one. Artillery have the same number of dice at long and short ranges and we could not see any POAs that related to range. Therefore why have this short range, or are we missing something? I assume it is equivalent to "Cannister" so would be more deadly, but can see not reason for it.

Regards

George

[timmy1]

Arc of fire P107. Also an aid memior (sp?) for the overhead shooting rules P109. It is not canister.

[deadtorius]

Cannister has not been invented yet, so I would agree with the above post.

[david53]

Cannister has not been invented yet, so I would agree with the above post.

It was coming in at the end of the period covered by the rules they just did'nt have it done correctly yet, ie in tin boxes.

[DanielS]

The Swedes had both grapeshot and cannister shot



Both the Danish and Imperial armies had cannister shot, the Danes list it among the munitions to be made ready for their new regimental cannon in 1629 while Wallenstein's army fired 27 24-pound cannister shot, 20 12-pound cannister shot and 90 6-pound cannister shot at the Swedes at Lützen 1632

[BeansNFranks]

The Swedes had both grapeshot and cannister shot



Both the Danish and Imperial armies had cannister shot, the Danes list it among the munitions to be made ready for their new regimental cannon in 1629 while Wallenstein's army fired 27 24-pound cannister shot, 20 12-pound cannister shot and 90 6-pound cannister shot at the Swedes at Lützen 1632

I love your posts. You are like a walking history book

I nominate this guy for designing lists in the future.

[david53]

Daniel were did you get the pictures from?

[DanielS]

The photos are from the Swedish General Staff's massive history of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus "Sveriges krig 1611-1632", Appendix volume II (The work was published in 6 volumes and two appendix volumes, a bit more than 5000 pages) The items are from the Skokloster collection http://www.skoklostersslott.se/default. ... refid=2567

The grapeshot cartridge is particularly interesting as the shape is a perfect match for the chamber of the regimental cannon used by Gustavus.

[deadtorius]

Curses wrong again

I imagine he has those things in the pictures sitting about on his desk in his library......

[nickdives]

Daniel,

reading your posts both here and TMP I have one thing to say:

Write a book with lots of colour pictures!!!!

I find it takes too long to trawl through the posts looking fror the answers I need!

[DanielS]

Thanks!
I am work on a couple of book drafts at the moment but don't expect much in the way of colour pictures. Those are expensive to get & print not to mention that you have to pay an artist for any custom artwork. So the illustrations will be mostly B&W with a focus on function as well as period b&w images.

[footslogger]

I'll look forward to those Daniel. I'm hoping you're planning to have English language versions of them.

[MatteoPasi]

I had a game last night and, while we see artillery have two range bands, we couldn't see why it has the 3" one. Artillery have the same number of dice at long and short ranges and we could not see any POAs that related to range. Therefore why have this short range, or are we missing something? I assume it is equivalent to "Cannister" so would be more deadly, but can see not reason for it.

Regards

George

When art have enemy at short range can't choose targhet

[GHGAustin]

Yes, artillery are actually LESS effective at close range, since they hit the same but have a reduced fire arc!