Prussian Heavy Artillery FPW 1870-71

[Oat]

Good Evening Everyone!

Another FPW related question for all the wise people here. I'm wondering if anyone knows the model/designation terms of the Prussian and German Heavy Artillery. I know the field artillery were C/64 and C/67 but I'm not finding anything detailed about the siege related weapons!

Finally, I'm blanking on this but the Schwere Batterie units were siege related artillery batteries or what would they have been armed with?

Warmest regards
-Oat

[Leman]

No idea of designation as there is only the one siege weapon on offer. To my knowledge the one offered by Irregular is the same type. Even the 6mm gun offered by Baccus is the same type. The Irregular model is simply described as a 24pdr siege gun.

[holdfast]

Come on Mollinary, we know that you know all this stuff, stop being coy.
I recall from reading The Siege of Paris by Alastair Horne that it took an age for the siege artillery to arrive and when it did arrive Moltke was not inclined to use it, partly because he thought that bombardment would stiffen the resolve of the defenders.

[mollinary]

Come on Mollinary, we know that you know all this stuff, stop being coy.
I recall from reading The Siege of Paris by Alastair Horne that it took an age for the siege artillery to arrive and when it did arrive Moltke was not inclined to use it, partly because he thought that bombardment would stiffen the resolve of the defenders.

I regret to say you are mistaking me for Stephen Summerfield!  I am not into sieges, or their appendages.  He is the guru on guns, of all shapes and sizes.

Mollinary

[holdfast]

Or mistaking you with someone who gives a fig!
Then the Continental Wars Society will have someone who knows.

[holdfast]

Douglas Fermer in France at Bay 1870-71, the Struggle for Paris, is rather vague about it all. However he does say that:
A: 876 fortress guns were acquired when Metz surrendered. Metz was on the railway line so it would have been quicker to move those guns to Paris rather than drag guns from Prussia. But that's speculation. (Page 58)
B: He says that 235 heavy guns were moved against Paris. (Page 149)
C: when the bombardment started it was 12cm shell and 15cm shell mixed with 'heavier mortar rounds'. (Page 153)
D: finally, at page 156, he says that 'Moltke had been correct that blockade was a more effective weapon than bombardment'.
Beyond that it's probably the Prussian General Staff History.