Your thoughts on including artillery limbers in an army (acw)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks.

Does BP make that distinction?

Not really!

[getagrip]

Not really!

Okay.  Cheers Will.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The main distinction is light, heavy or howitzers.
It's really an excuse for an artillery unit with different uniform or slightly higher morale!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Basically they are usually light artillery attached to cavalry.
Beardy bit:
1870:
French had foot, which could be heavy or light, horse and guards artillery (the latter being veteran crewed horse artillery in posher uniforms).
Prussians had light and heavy artillery, then light horse. All in same uniform.
As did the Saxons.
Bavaria had artillery and horse artillery in different uniforms.
Wurttenbergers, just to annoy EVERYONE, had half-horse heavy batteries (basically heavy horse artillery).

In the ACW, pick a formation, their orbat will be available, it will tell you what sort of guns were used and whether the battery was artillery or horse artillery (again, mostly with the cavalry).
That's half the fun, the research!
And Mollinary and Cameronian will no doubt be along soon to correct my errors!

[Westmarcher]

Not really!

Although limbered horse artillery does move faster than foot under BP rules. Horse artillery can also limber or unlimber at the beginning or end of a move without penalty and can limber at the start and unlimber at the end of a move. Foot artillery take one whole move to limber up or deploy for firing.

BP does stipulate that if artillery pieces are to move other than manhandling, they must be provided with separate horse drawn limbers. I don't have limbers for my 15mm ACW collection (I painted one for each side - that was enough for me - they now draw caissons and just sit on the table as ornaments - except if I need a supply train for a scenario .... anyhoo ....) but as I have usually have 2 pieces per battery, I'm happy to denote 'limbered' status by placing the two bases one behind the other as per the following photo from Brent Oman's (Field of Battle) Wargames and Stuff blog.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qk7z4idbM8o/TSoUeIY4x9I/AAAAAAAAAgY/8pj0pcyFpCY/s1600/DSCN2361.JPG

(Not the best example as both guns should be pointing the same way when limbered - however because there is a 'firepower' label on the back of one of the bases,  and the player wants to hide this from his opponent, he has ignored the rules and placed them back to back).

With my 10mm minis, I replace one of the guns with a limber.