artillery and movement question

[sgt fury]

in the first german campaign the artillery wont accept orders to bomb certain enemy positions why?
when armour is given orders to stop and defend only they still defy orders and go after the enemy in the vicinity, how do you give the definite stop order enabling you to concentrate on something else.

[Sneaksie]

1) What artillery, off-map? Or did you choose some SPGs?

2) Left-click on the bottom left button in the orders panel (the one with the soldier icon). You just turned the hold mode on.

[sgt fury]

the artillary problem was the distance.