1) Atillery is not sexy.
2) Artillery based gameplay is seen as static and camping, hence unpopular.
1) I think it's way fun ("sexy") so I use it even though it's not very effective. The leFH 18 spread outside the circle and the circle is wide enough as it is. No precision shot with the german arty either.
2) I know. But people need to change this attitude because it is 100% scrub mentality. Same thing with blobs which is a more common despised tactic. Only tactics that make someone lose are despicable I noticed. I tried to explain to my friend the other day that he should have no selfimposed honor system about how the game is supposed to be played. There is no unbeatable tactic in this game, so start countering blobs if blobs is what you meet. And what that means is that you have to see what's happening Before it gets out of hand. If it does "get out of hand", it's because that player employed the better tactic and/or was more skilled than you (does anyone ever admit this? Lots of jerks online chose to have a terrible bullshit attitude of calling its own team noobs over giving cred to the opponent). If it requires no skill to blob, then how come you couldn't counter unskilled gameplay? What does that say about your skills? It is NOT an unbeatable tactic. So go blob yourself then. Whatever it takes. If you think "no, I don't wanna play that way" it's like asking the enemy to walk into your cannons the way you want them to. Only scrubs think that way.
I also wanna ask if anyone uses the leFH 18? It can pay off over the course of a game if you have a front that doesn't break, but it does spread like crazy.