Wagons and hedgerows

[Matt W]

I think we need to look at "wagons" as a generic term for horse transport. Most artillery limbers would have been hitched to a harness and not a wagon and the harness would have been hitched directly to the weapon with no "vehicle" between the wrong end of the horse and the wrong end of the gun. Under those circumstances we are comparing the ability of a horse to get through the hedgerow with a trailing weapon and the ability of a truck to get through with the same weapon. If we assume that the weapon can make it the horse certainly can but there is no guarantee that the truck can. Of more concern would actually be the ability of the ammunition supply to get through the hedgerow.

As to whether the movement point penalty for such an action is sufficient I can't say.