“shortening their range means higher shell arc”

Yes, that’s exactly what I wrote above. Why do you think more SPGs with higher shell arc would be beneficial for gameplay? (By the way, limiting vertical gun arc is easily circumvented by finding an upward slope.)

As for tier 3 arty, I don’t see how mobility and smaller maps (which is only marginally true, since they see battle tier 3, 4 and 5) are any proof for stupidity of their 1000 m range.

WG designed PM stupid enough that any tomato can get the reward while teamplaying player will never get it, regardless how good he is. Usual WG way…

“zero pen HE shells with bigger splash and reduced module damage”

i write in my prev comment this, to reduce detracks

“The splash with a gold shell that lands 2 meters away will do 8x as much damage as a silver shell.”

8xdamage? gold HE shells does not work like that…

@Trent

-tier 3 artys are mostly fight on smaller maps, and usually are more mobile than hightier artys, shortening their range means higher shell arc, unless their vertical gun arc is limited (for example T57 arty)