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I finished a campaign and the AI did upgrade its trenches.
The airburst upgrade pays dividends once you get a ton of supplies in your reserve. You can airburst the crap out of the enemy trenches and it is MUCH faster to overrun positions. The same with mustard gas. I used this to awesome effect. But again, you have to have the supplies.
Granted, you still will spend a lot more supply, but if you have 1000s then it's moot.
I don't know, once I have the supply capability I would rather spend more to get a bigger punch.
As far as the game, I'd be fine if airburst rounds just did significantly more damage to troops in the open. On elite difficulty enemy troops are crazy armored and human wave attacks work very well against your men because they simply can't wear them down like on soldier difficulty. Two heavy precision barrages on an incoming regular infantry unit does next to no damage even if you time it right.
So, airburst was very effective, but after 1914 there were only few situations left where it could shine.
And in 1918 gunners apparently lost the know-how to effectively use shrapnel when there came some movement again.
Because its not that easy to time well, and they had been shooting "simple" HE for 4 years, the skill wasnt needed anymore.
Ah yes they lost the know how because they had been firing HE instead, compared to the period prior to 1914, where they were firing...???
(yes in 1914 a few would be trained artillerymen who had some practice, the majority wouldve been conscripts with little to no experience.)
I also think that conscription is not that important to artillery as it is to infantry. You need well trained gunners, and can use some conscripts as support. In contrast to infantry, that just needs millions of men as replacement.
Of course those well trained gunners will have losses, and be replaced by new, less well trained men. Which learned the important, trench fighting stuff. And in 1918 werent necessarily that good in shooting shrapnel.
Also, just to make it clear, all shrapnel isnt air burst.
Are you talking about shrapnel as in splinters from grenades? Then, you are right, they originate from a lot of stuff.
But if we are talking Shrapnel as in the grenade invented by Henry Shrapnel, then those are air burst. Ideally.
And as he incented those in the 1780s, there were quite a few wars were Shrapnels were used. Waterloo, for example.
"Forgetting" is probably a strong word. They werent that good anymore. They lost a lot of the guys who were trained to shoot that, the new guys mostly werent trained that well. Infantry formations got smaller and more mobile. Probably they didnt even have the ammo around anymore, they had more important stuff to produce.
Its not a total loss of that skill, but in the end of 1918, as warfare fairly quickly (for WW1) got fairly mobile (for WW1), they didnt have it.
That here is probably the best guess you got.
I cannot convey how much shell production ramped up during the war. Do you have anything to indicate that they dropped shrapnel production?
Just. Go here, page 130, look at ''75mm field-gun shrapnel''.
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwi/historical_resources/default/sec04/PDF/AmericasMunitions1917-18.pdf
Maybe we just disagree on what a significant amount of shells is.
And those 4 years they didnt have exactly time to train those crews like in peace time. Getting a shell to burst in the air exactly where you want it is not as straight forward as lobbing HE into the ground. For which you need a good gunner as well, if you want to hit. Not as good as, like, in Naval gunnery, but still.
I am now skimming through 800 pages of US ammo production, because my night shift is rather boring. :)