Thanks for your tips ! The additional missing piece was the "selected" attribute: You need to set it to the target you are going to shoot, including for dummy character.

Following the documentation, there is few ways to control military targets and control attacks: - shooting_state but seems useful to know what's happening, but writing to it doesn't change anything. - shooting_target works but only for turrets. - set_command works but only for units. - vehicle_autom...

In this case, a relative small change would be to display some units in the force editor as I was expecting this value to be in tiles and not a multiplier.

Oh yes I did change it but reverted back the setting.
Does this setting is applied when building the artillery and hidden after ?
Because the information box visible in the screenshot doesn't show this huge range but a standard one

It seems on some very specific occasion, artillery on ennemy force don't target building of the player. I'm not able to fully reproduce the circumstances of this issue. One thing which might be related is that I overfilled them by script insertion. (No ammo in the screenshot is because we are not in...

Fully agree ! Trying to be creative with different type of capsule is really limited by this shared cooldown. This has been requested multiple times in the past: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=98834&p=547546&hilit=cooldown#p547546 https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.p...

While saving the game with SE with the non-blocking save enabled, I pressed exit before the end of the save which triggered a segmentation fault.
This happened on my save but also I reproduced it just using a "labo" save, so this is not specific to my save.