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After years of experimentation between 1744 and 1750, the teams of Fürst Joseph Wenzel von Liechtenstein introduced a new artillery system in 1750 (Regulation of April 15, 1750) and approved with the Regulation of July 1752. It consisted of a family of three groups of cannons, not including the howitzers and mortars:
A range of new so entitled Field Guns (Austrian: 'Feld-Stücke’): 3-pounder battalion guns (Austrian: 'Regiments-Stücke‘) and 6- & 12-pounder position guns, whose barrels measured 16 shot diameters or calibres in length.
A range of new so entitled Light Battery Guns (Austrian: 'Leichte Batterie Stücke‘) – a short-barrelled light range of siege guns: 12- and 24-pounder pieces. They were of 18 calibres barrel length by 1750. However, the 12-pounder was recommended to be designed 3 calibres longer with the explanatory text of an original 1752 Regulation ordnance found in the Vienna Liechtenstein House Archive.
A range of so entitled Heavy Battery Guns (Austrian: 'Schwere Batterie Stücke‘) – long-barrelled heavy siege guns: 12- and 24-pounder pieces of 27 and 23 calibres barrel length respectively. By 1752 and all during the Seven Years' War, this branches guns continued to be dimensioned to the old pattern ordnance of the 1716/1722 systematisation, with the exception of the new 1750 and 1752 models being designed with somewhat less metal strength, hence, becoming somewhat lighter. Only after the Seven Years' War the range of Battery Guns saw a complete revision, also introducing 18-pounder battery pieces again, which had all been removed from the tables in 1737.
