I have done some further investigation and I was wrong to say that the artillery only fires once when attacked. I was attacked three times and the artillery unit returned fire each time. The reason I thought they didnt must have been because during a multiple attacks the artillery unit must have been suppressed at some point.
As far as the issue with being attacked with artillery support, this definitely is happening a great deal more. I have tried every artillery unit available and the Russians still attack my protected units at will.
The reason I keep the Sturmpanzers is they are the only unit that can travel and fire in one go with a range of three. Hopefully I will be able to upgrade them cheaply to the SIG 38t M later in the series. However I thought that about the strategic bombers as I had 3 HE 111 H2 with the hope I could upgrade to the awesome HE177 A but I was charged a small fortune.
The best bit of artillery I have currently is a captured Russian 47th SUI 22 r - a cracking piece of kit
