A couple quick points. People get really anxious when you refer to them as STA Battery's. They will be a normal battery with STA equipment... or so goes the party line. The BC will still be a field gunner, it will still provide a FSCC and it will still provide a total of four FOO parties, with all the STA stuff going where guns used to go. Nevertheless, and this is stressed at every level, it is not to be considered an STA battery! (IMHO if it has feathers, quacks and flys south for the winter, it's a duck no matter what you call it).
The discrepancy with the number of guns is to be addressed through reserve augmentation.
As for the actual number of batteries, I'm not sure how we're going to address that. I think it's a risk management thing that we will never have so many TFs deployed that we don't have enough batteries.