most of the artillery in the game is 'direct fire only' so you need unobstructed line of sight for the artillery piece to engage automatically - you could always take direct control of the gun and use it to destroy any intervening buildings/vehicels etc - this is a very useful tactic in one or two of the single player missions.
About the only weapons that fire over cover are grenades, mortars and howitzers - the 150mm heavy howitzes that appear in some of the missions are awesome powerful once you manage to capture them - but they usually only have about 19 rounds of HE so plan each shot to the best advantage.
In direct control mode you can force the gun to use whichever type of ammo/shell (AP or HE) you wish rather than the UI making an automatic selection based on the tpye of target - which is usually AP for armored vehicles and HE for 'softies' and troops
hope this helps and answers your query?
P.S. Steam FTW - lol
Last edited by coddam; 07-24-2011 at 05:12 PM.
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