Trouble using artillery

[gottoman]

I am trying to use a light gun and a bombard and it seems to never give me an option to fire the unit. Even when targets are within the range 6 and 8 hexes respectively. Believe the los is good. Not certain what the trick is.

[deadtorius]

did you have any friendly troops in front of it at the time of shooting? Also if you move them they cant shoot they are a very slow moving move or shoot but not both weapon. I have never had problems getting my own lt artillery to shoot at anything.

[gottoman]

No movement of the artillery and no units in front blocking the LOS. I flat out don't have a yellow triangle you usually have to indicate firing arc and range. Other strange thing is this only seems to happen with HYW English (Britain) Early and Late armies. With the early, the light guns have no fire arc and with late, the bombard and light gun has no fire arc and I can never get either to have a bow over the figure on the map to indicate they are ranged, etc. All the other armies I have tried seem fine and the artillery works as normal.

[deeter]

I recomend not suing them.. Acutally it sounds like a bug.

Deeter

[deadtorius]

Try posting about it in the technical support part of the forum. Sounds like some kind of bug alright

[petergarnett]

I've had no problem with both artillery units - which army are you using please?

[gottoman]

"HYW English (Britain) Early and Late armies" as described three replies up this thread. Tried several other armies with the DAG and all of them except these two seems to work fine with artillery. With these two, have generated a couple of different armies, and each on regardless has light and bombard artillery that show up on the screen without the little "bow and arrow" indicator and have no firing arc in yellow, and can't fire regardless of where they are place or the fact they have a completely clear los in front of them.

Thanks,

Greg

[petergarnett]

With the Early army the light guns work fine for me. However neither work with the Late army so I'll add that to the bug list (if it's not already there)..

[gottoman]

Thanks, just happy I am not crazy! Was a bit dissapointed when I was playing a challenge against a bunch of Scots and my artillery sat there while I was slaughtered.