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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 7:49 pm 
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This house rule was originally posted by me in the Mason Dixon Tavern early in 2021.

Artillery stacking is limited to a maximum of eight guns per hex at all times. However, I am also agreeable to the limit being reduced to six guns per hex, in which case any eight-gun battery that exists in either army is treated as an exception the rule.

My reasoning is that this limit is more realistic given that each hex is 125 yards wide in the games. In real life it would simply not be feasible to cram the twenty guns that the games allow into such a small space.
The 1864 Union manual titled Instruction for Field Artillery (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=G2cDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) states on page 185 the distance must be 14 yards between each piece (and each piece would probably occupy a frontage of 1-2 yards).
The manual also instructs that the limbers are to be 6 yards back from the pieces and the caissons back another 11 yards from the limbers. In short, they took up a lot of room. The reasons for such spacing between the guns is obviously because of smoke and safety.

Furthermore, this link (https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/Gettysburg--July%203%201863--Picketts%20Charge%20Artillery%20Positions%20%28October%202019%29_0.pdf) shows artillery positions at Gettysburg and when examined you can see that in most instances there are no more than six guns placed within 125 yards.

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