by J Flower Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:25 am
The way I have always understood it is that in the era in question civilians were employed to move the guns around, I take it that draught teams were hired when required. By having it fully in military hands I suppose you remove the danger of the civilians not wanting to go to far from home on campaign or doing a runner when the shooting starts & leaving your guns in the middle of a battle .
Don't confuse militarised artillery with Horse artillery, which should always be fully militarised, with all gunners either mounted on horses or riding on the guns themselves( Austrian style)
As far as I can see you are basically buying a security that your guns will move & hopefully do what you want them to, although has there been an in game event whereby civilians have refused to move guns?
It may also be that having fully military crews you could get better rates of fire as everyone is available to man the guns, although I have no idea if this has been taken into account in game.