Artillery

[Ratzki]

It's not the training that gives them such a long delay, but it is how far up the chain of command the arty is. The more commanders that the orders to fire have to go through, the longer the delay, so Army arty will take a long time, Regimental arty will take less time and Battalion level arty will be the fastest to fire a mission. Early in the war, the Russians had to move the arty farther up the command chain as lower level commanders were unable to produce effective results due to lack of experience. As the war progressed, arty was again shifted down the command chain somewhat as the lower level commanders gained battle experience.