Why won't my artillery guns fire?

Hiya, this thread is as simple as it sounds. When I aim my 12 iber art at a target within it's range, the gun crews won't fire. This has happened to me before. Infact I've just been in a battle right now where my gun crews refused to fire. Maybe I'm not paying them enough? Anyways, this is extremely annoying and has cost me one or two battles. And btw, the unit card says their firing, and when I mouse over them, it says their firing too. Anyone experienced this before?

aim at the ground instead and itll work

Originally Posted by Triple25mm

Hiya, this thread is as simple as it sounds. When I aim my 12 iber art at a target within it's range, the gun crews won't fire. This has happened to me before. Infact I've just been in a battle right now where my gun crews refused to fire. Maybe I'm not paying them enough? Anyways, this is extremely annoying and has cost me one or two battles. And btw, the unit card says their firing, and when I mouse over them, it says their firing too. Anyone experienced this before?

I've had the same a couple of times -I think it must be a bug. When it happened to me I had a battery of 4 artillery units who just stood there not firing even though their unit card said they were firing. I was getting a bit desperate with massed Russian infantry marching straight for my guns. I limbered and then unlimbered and the guns started firing - but not in time to save them from getting overrun by hordes of militia...

Yes, I've seen it too.
I do think it's buggy sometimes; most of the times I have an explanation for it though:
1. firing angle too steep; cannons will only fire at a reasonable area in front and behind them.
2. misfires; this happens in rain and is tricky because sometimes they fire, sometimes they don't (and you usually don't have the time to keep track of that).
3. stuck guns; this is very annoying, about the bug I wish most would be fixed. This happens sometimes if a cav charge shoves the guns around, the crew never manages to get them going again.
Also happens if you limber/unlimber guns in front of or behind terrain so the horses can't move away from the carriage (but in this case, they're not shown as firing).

There are two possible conditions here. In the first, the gun crews go through the motions of firing, but don't actually fire anything. In the second, the gun crews just stand there looking like idiots. In the first case, it's usually a misfire. In the second, it's probably the bug we've all had -- as I far as I know, you have to limber/unlimber/move to reset your gunners' attention.

There is a third bug that it could be that there's an obstacle that just came in between -- like if your target moves behind a house or a hill after being targeted. In this case, your guns will be stuck in fire mode, targeting the guy behind the obstacle, but never fire anything. I've exploited this third bug before by putting a militia behind some houses to hold Ai gunners' attention for the duration of a battle. You can fix this by targeting the ground instead of units.

Ah yes, the AI. Please, don't go there. I've given up with the sp campaign altogether and now only play it online.
But back to the matter at hand. Daniu, you are right about the misfires, as I have seen it before, as how valentinian described it. This was not the case though, as the gun crews were just standing about m*****bating. I found, however, that if i fire the guns anywhere on the ground, this ALWAYS works. I knew about this beforehand, but sometimes I like to set it to auto fire, esp when I'm launching an assault. Well, thanks for the help, but I think this is a bug we'll have to live with in the time being (until some modder fixed it!)

You tell them to stop...like the stop button and the crew will reset to idle mode then press fire at will or actually target something...this generally works for me when this happens

k thanks

Perhaps we should start calling it "retartillery".

I also strangely enough see this happen if you try to get the cannon to fire though your men.

so you mean if your men are stood in front of the cannons they won't fire?

Originally Posted by Triple25mm

so you mean if your men are stood in front of the cannons they won't fire?

Yes they will.

Huh so the artillery crew weren´t complete idiots.

no they do fire i've seen this before in a multiplayer movie (dunno which one so no link )

I think friendly fire from my canon is the biggest threat to my armies...that and having a stupid commander...