Towed artillery battalion of the Galactic Republic

The Grand army of the Galactic Republic employed several hundreds towed artillery during the clone wars. Many of which went on to serve the Galactic Empire and local planetary armed forces. The Galactic Empire classified these units as medium artillery battalion. They also reorganized the artillery battery into four firing line with only four cannons each. This was done to make it look like the battalion had an increase in firepower.

Command base
Each of the three, later four, artillery batteries had one of stationary forward command centre for their respective F.D.C. While the battalion commander used a PX-4 Mobile Command Base (truck). The F.C.C. employed two forward command centres, alone with supplementary equipment.

Structure

 * Headquarter group
 * Security platoon
 * Medical platoon
 * General maintenance platoon
 * Logistics platoon
 * Battalion HQ
 * Staff
 * Fire Coordination Centre
 * Assault company
 * Heavy weapons platoon
 * Heavy weapons platoon
 * Infantry platoon
 * Infantry platoon


 * Artillery battery
 * Company HQ
 * Transportation unit (for supplies and movement)
 * Fire Direction Centre
 * Forward observation team Alfa
 * Forward observation team Bravo
 * Firing line
 * Gun pair
 * Gun pair
 * Gun pair
 * Firing line
 * Firing line
 * Artillery battery
 * Company HQ
 * Firing line
 * Firing line
 * Firing line
 * Artillery battery
 * Company HQ
 * Firing line
 * Firing line
 * Firing line

Weapons

 * 54 x AV-7 towed guns
 * Two cannons pr gun pair, six cannons pr firing line eighteen pr artillery battery.
 * 4 x EWHB-12 heavy repeating blaster
 * One pr heavy weapons squad. And served by a heavy weapons detail (a sub-unit).
 * 6 x Z-6 rotary blaster cannon
 * One pr infantry squad.
 * 12 x RPS-6 rocket launcher
 * One pr forward observation team, two pr infantry platoon and two pr heavy weapons platoon.
 * The PLX-1 portable missile launcher served sometimes in its place.
 * Several DC-15A blaster rifles, DC-15S blaster carbines, DC-15s side arm blasters and DP-23 Shotguns was also issued to the battalion members for personal defense and battalion defense.

Acronyms

 * HQ = Head-Quarter
 * F.C.C. = Fire Coordination Centre
 * F.D.C. = Fire Direction Centre
 * F.O.T. = Forward Observation Team