Artillery in Assault

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Is artillery defined as a WPN unit in an assault? Recently, I played a scenario with a 75rcl and two steps of infantry that was assaulted. The 75rcl (German recoiless 75mm artillery unit) was played as if it was a WPN (weapon) type. Yet there are no RAW that artillery falls into the WPN category. In assaults, if coupled with infantry, WPNs and HMGs get full direct firepower in assault combat. If no infantry, they are half strength.

As an aside, the 75rcl, a one step unit, lasted 13 turns (out of a 14 turn game) in this assault; an assault which saw as many as 20 unadjusted points for the Germans. I use an electronic randomizer to choose eleminated steps when losses occur in stacks. Many steps were lost during the 13 turns here, but the 75rcl remained untouched.