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In the Death Korps Siege Regiment Field Artillery Batteries can purchase a Centaur Carrier to tow them about. However I recently played against a guy that was towing the guns with Centaurs bought for other squads (A Command Squad in this case) and having the crew walk behind the towed artillery.

I didn't complain because he seemed sure of it and his models stayed in coherency, but I don't have a Forge World book to check and it just seems a little squiffy to me (Even if not illegal). Could anyone shed some light?

It is legal. The Centaur's rule applies to any friendly model with the Artillery unit type. And the crew doesn't board the Centaur (it does have to have sufficient free transport capacity to hold them), the gun and crew are simply placed together at the end of the move. The only reason to buy dedicated Centaurs for the individual artillery unit is to make sure you have enough, since a command squad's Centaur is probably busy transporting the command squad. But, just like units can embark on transports that were bought for other units (and just can't begin the game deployed there), you can use a spare Centaur to move a gun if you need to.

Not that this is a very relevant question in normal games, since moving the gun prevents it from shooting that turn. It's very, very rare that you'll be willing to make that trade.

 Peregrine wrote:
It is legal. The Centaur's rule applies to any friendly model with the Artillery unit type. And the crew doesn't board the Centaur (it does have to have sufficient free transport capacity to hold them), the gun and crew are simply placed together at the end of the move.

The reason he was moving it because it was a big apocalypse game and it was out of range, I must say I've never seen anyone move an artillery piece in a regular game.

So does the crew need to be in the Transport while it is towing the gun? Because he had the command squad in the Centaur, the gun being towed by the Centaur (obviously) and the gun crew on foot behind it.

 TheManWithNoPlan wrote:
So does the crew need to be in the Transport while it is towing the gun? Because he had the command squad in the Centaur, the gun being towed by the Centaur (obviously) and the gun crew on foot behind it.

This is not legal. The Centaur must have sufficient transport capacity currently available to hold the crew, even though they don't actually embark. You declare the tow, move the Centaur up to 12", and then place the gun and crew as if they had just disembarked. If the command squad is in the Centaur then it doesn't have enough transport capacity for the crew and you can't tow the gun.