On board artillery spacing

[Weasel]

I was wondering what you guys think about on board artillery spacing? I know that myself, and all my opponents, always put at least 5 hexes between tubes, which is inaccurate. In real life a tube may be 50 yards from it's neighbor, but not much more then that or else command and control breaks down.

Do you think that some form of restriction should be created to go along with the FOO rule, for example 4 tubes in an 4 X 4 area max or something like that? This would also force the buyer to purchase transport for his tubes too, which would also be more realistic, after all the boys didn't push that 155mm there.

I know Shortreengage and myself tried a restriction a long time ago, I think it was max 2 hexes between tubes.

I am just noticing that with the FOO rule on board CB is not really an option now.

I'm using realistic spread all the time, max three hex apart. In peace time it's 50 meters and during war about 100 meters between pieces but the modern equipment can have any distance within the range of it's gun and still fire accurately, GPS makes things easy.

Guns are positioned more or less abreast, they are not firing over each other if it can be avoided. For a 4 gun battery normal war time deployment would be that a section has two hexes between guns and sections 4-5 hexes between them. Trucks would be 6-10 hexes behind guns. That's WW2 deployment from manual.

Well since you are the HERBIE of the group (nickname we call our gunners) I take you as authority. So it would not be outrageous to state max 2 hexes between guns?