Question: Infantry vs Artillery

[MasterPiece3000]

Most arty units are not trained to engage infantry. I noticed that most arty units in this game if far enough away from the action rarely have a combat arms team 'guarding' them. For the most part this is also true in real world situations. The same is usually not true if the artillery is light in nature such as small mortars that may be closer to the action due to their range. Many times they'll have a squad or two assigned to that unit for the purpose of engaging any enemy ground units that may try to eliminate the artillery. I will sometimes assign some of my reserve squads to guard the heavy artillery if I can sacrifice them. Most of the time the AI will simply start shelling my heavy artillery instead of sending scout or infantry troops after the artillery. I usually do the same unless I have a scenario that has a lot of turns involved. Most of the time I bombard the enemy's arty but I also may send a scout or squad out to locate the enemy as well. Even a scout team can bring havoc to artillery units that are not guarded. IMHO I don't think it's a glitch in the game. I feel it's fairly realistic to what you experienced.