Newbie artillery question ...

[DaveyJJ]

First off, thanks to PanzerBob and DRG (who is local to me) for their help in my pre-purchase thread.

Got the CD by mail and I'm loving it. Mostly tinkering so far but I've come across a simple thing I can' seem to figure out despite reading the manual. I seem to be able to get to the bombardment screen, select an artillery unit to fire and a target hex. It says 1.0 (turns) but the artillery never fires.

Is that number simply a "ready" number and do you have to click on each artillery unit and "F"ire? Or is is automatic?

Thanks.