artillery bug?

I have noticed that on occasion my artillery crews will get to a state where they aim their guns where I have directed them, load up as usual, go through all the motions of covering their ears but then fail to fire! Once they get into this state they continue to move about as if they in some sort of drill. They're not out of powder because they sometimes resume firing for reasons I don't understand.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by UdiHrant

Any ideas?

Yes. But I'm afraid my idea of CA getting their heads out of their asses and releasing more patches to fix the many glaring bugs in this game will remain wishful thinking.

Missfire. Guns were not entirely reliable.
You can get the same with musket.

Sometime your guys want to fire, it doesn't work, so they need to "reload" again before they can shoot.

Not a bug, a design feature, the chance of misfire is moddable independantly for each projectile.

I would like to beleive that it is a designed 'misfire' feature rather then a bug but If it's is then it's done rather clumsily. The entire battery 'misfires' at once and continues to 'misfire' for the rest of the battle as far as I can tell.

When I see something like that, it usually happens to only one get, and then they can fire again.

If they are not, then it's indeed a bug.