Size and central control.
That was what I came to too, but then I pondered just what that specifically meant and I was less certain.
If a French corps commander commits his two reserve batteries to a division and that division commits its two batteries, there’s something like 30 guns operating on the frontage of that division.
That’s enough guns to be considered grand battery, is it one? I supposed that went to the question of ‘control’ right? But what does control mean in this circumstance. If the corps’s artillery chief is overseeing it, what are the benefits of that control:
• Is the ammunition and pace of fire better managed to prevent depletion?
• Is the fire more effective at damaging the enemy?
