J. Ferry wrote:
:oops: Yeah, that was kind of where I was coming from and I should have mentioned it. It is ironic that if you want to save some guns from a coming melee you need to limber up and become defenseless so that they can retreat!
J Ferry
Major, 2/20th Corps
That makes perfect sense to me.
In the accounts I have read, if a battery got captured, it was usually the whole battery. The times when parts of batteries got captured were instances when the order to limber and flee was given, but a gun was immobilized, usually by casualties among its horses.
It is interesting to note that in phase play, limbered artillery doesn't retreat from melee. If it loses the melee, all guns are captured.