 For transport, the gun was attached to a limber for towing by a horse team or artillery tractor.The C/79 used the same limber as the C/73 and the limber had seats for crew members plus ammunition and supplies.The majority of military planners before the First World War were wedded to the concept of fighting an offensive war of rapid maneuver which in a time before mechanization meant a focus on cavalry and light horse artillery firing shrapnel shells.