Standardised Artillery is a military technology in Napoleon: Total War.
Description[]
Standardisation of parts prolongs the field life of artillery by simplifying the supply of spare parts.
By using common parts to make many different cannons, such as wheels and gun carriages, it makes manufacturing easier and makes the job of an artilleryman easier too. Field repairs can be made by taking usable parts from a destroyed weapon to repair a damaged one. A single serviceable weapon may be created from the wreckage of a number of other guns.
In 1764, French artillery officer Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval created a system of standardisation of mass produced gun parts that came to be known as ‘Le systéme Gribeauval’. He improved cannon carriages, and improved the basic manufacturing of guns so that pieces became smaller and lighter for a given calibre.
It was Napoleon’s ability to use the existing systems of the French army to full effect that made it such an effective fighting force. Bonaparte was, of course, trained as an artilleryman before he was a general officer.
General Information[]
Standardized Artillery unlocks the last ordnance building, the Engineer School. It also grants a significant reduction to upkeep costs of artillery units, a useful boon to late-game armies.