Originally Posted by
McMuffin
I would start with four, but it's already complicated enough determining locations to have them spawn at to where a decent amount of people can be satisfied by it but not have them be in the same position and restrict what a commander can do. If you want the batteries to be mobile and be historic, artillery will take up too many people on the servers.
Each battery had 4-6 (Mixing CSA and US batteries, CSA had smaller batteries) guns
Each gun would probably have, in game not historically, 4 people. One battery is already taking up 24 or 16 people, and that would add up quickly with batteries.