I'm having a problem with the ORION artillery that makes it basically useless unless manually controlled. I mounted 3 on a Nemean Lion thinking it would be a good long range artillery platform, but if they are set to an autofire weapon group the AI will fire them at targets far beyond the maximum range of the weapon. I think it may be a problem with the projectiles lifespan. The stated range of the weapon is 2000, but when mounted on the Nemean Lion which should provide a 25% range bonus and equipped with an Integrated Targeting Unit which should bring the bonus to 50% providing an effective range of over 3000, but the projectiles never make it that far. They seem to complete degrade by 2600, and don't do full damage until well under that (~2400 or less). This is a huge problem when it comes to using the weapon the AI will fire them at around 4000 (when the "In Range" indicator turns on, I'm not exactly sure how the range bonus stacking works in SS, but that may actually be what the range should be), wasting all the ammunition without landing a hit.
Not sure what to do here, or if anyone else has reported this.