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Originally Posted by airdave
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Yeah I can see your point (Charlie) about the amount of Ammunition.
But I didn't think the ammunition amounts were much at all.
40 doesn't seem like that much to me.
And 32 seems like a lot less!
I wondered why a larger Limber had not been created for the British Gun.
This Mk2 Limber carries 32 rounds.
Its bigger than the earlier Mk1 style...
but if my eyes don't deceive me, the Mk 1 carried 38 rounds for the 18pdr Gun!
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Remember it's very unusual for artillery pieces to deploy individually - a battery of 25 Pounder guns was 4 guns and back in WW1 many of the combatants used 6 gun batteries. If a target wasn't knocked out or thoroughly suppressed after 100 or so rounds were fired then the field guns were too light for the job and something larger needed to be used. The guns can't stay in battery for long since sound detection will identify the location of a battery when it fires and bring counter battery fire.
Regards,
Charlie