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<br />It appears that the game's artillery accuracy particularly in long range counter battery fire is way off. You have to be careful with participant's reports when not quantified. They tend to report things that were unusual so they will talk about how they hit this or that but wont mention the 100 shots that killed trees and posts but not enemy.
When you consider that a rifled gun had no sights, the gunners had no range finders, and they had no way to insure the gun returned to the same position it fired from to use the previous shot to adjust by, you have a direct fire weapon best used as a big shotgun.
For example, the Washington Artillery on Marye's Height were ordered to fire on the Union columns moving to cross the bridges about 2 PM on the 11th. This caused the Union artillery on Stafford Heights to target them for retaliation. Nosworthy doesn't say how many guns fired at the battery but they kept it up for fifteen minutes. The casualties from this amounted to one badly wounded Sergeant.
Another example but I don't have the passage in front of me was the artillery dual between Cemetery Hill and Benner's Hill. Most books indicate that the Confederate artillery was driven from the hill with heavy loses. But the actual loses were one gun due to the barrel being hit and two guns temporarially disabled due to damage to their wheels.
A gun hit was more an accident than a planned result.
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Gosh darn, by crimminee!! Why does anyone play these so obviously flawed games.
I just do not understand it. Post, after post, after post!
It just boggles the mind. YET, there has been one THOUSAND games played? OH, wait a minute that is about THIRTEEN THOUSAND games played! 13,000 +/- a few.
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Obviously, there is MORE right with the games than wrong.[:D][^]
<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
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