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I have been wanting to have a griffon as a guiding unit for a artillery battery for some time, but I was discussing this with another player and something came up neither one of us could answer.

Lets say you have a griffon and a colossus, you fire the griffon exactly 24 inches and it scatters 6 inches back towards the battery, its now time to place the colossus shot but its within 24 so can it no longer be fired? Or is its minimum range checked with the griffons shot? What if the colossus fired first at 49" but scattered back into range for the griffon? I guess the question is are all ranges checked with the ranging shot or each individual artillery piece when its their time to fire

Ranges and minimum ranges are measured from every vehicle to the first shot

Volkov wrote:I have been wanting to have a griffon as a guiding unit for a artillery battery for some time, but I was discussing this with another player and something came up neither one of us could answer.

Lets say you have a griffon and a colossus, you fire the griffon exactly 24 inches and it scatters 6 inches back towards the battery, its now time to place the colossus shot but its within 24 so can it no longer be fired? Or is its minimum range checked with the griffons shot? What if the colossus fired first at 49" but scattered back into range for the griffon? I guess the question is are all ranges checked with the ranging shot or each individual artillery piece when its their time to fire

Page 32: If the centre of the marker is placed by the firer within the minimum range (before rolling for scatter),
the shot misses automatically and is removed.

Nothing within the Multiple Barrage rules overrides this, so it still applies.

On this same topic i have a question.

If i have a group consisting of a 2 basilisks and 1 griffon, and a target is within 36" could i choose to indirect fire with the griffon (since it cannot direct fire) and still direct fire with the basilisks?

If so, each shot resolves separately, not as a barrage correct?

The first shot resolves as a barrage weapon, as you are firing indirectly. The other shots, as long as they have LOS, can fire directly - however as you point out it is not a Multiple Barrage, so each shot woudl resolve independently.