When does artillery fire

[Chris21wen]

Simple question and on the sound of it, dumb but I've spent near two hour trying to find this.

An LCU set to deliberate or shock attack is likely to have indirect fire elements capable of bombardment. They will bombard if set to it but when do they fire during other attack types? During the bombardment phase or assault fire phase? This applies equally to attacker or defender.

[BBfanboy]

If attacked by enemy artillery, your arty will attempt counter-battery fire. That also shows the enemy approximately where your guns are and they can try the same against them. Usually the side with the larger caliber/longer range/more accurate arty wins the duel.

If enemy troops attack your troops your arty will fire at them. If the enemy is landing on a beach but not shock attacking, only coast defence or dual purpose guns fire at the transports and landing craft. Arty fires at the beach in support of other beach defences like MGs. You only see this in the casualties during landing.

If you set your arty to bombard enemy troops without your troops attacking, the arty will have fewer op points available to fire on an attacking enemy later on the same day.

[Diliwitm]

I think searching older posts maybe even not AE will give you some information.