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WP or any weapon that damages or destroys by flame or heat is prohibited against troops.

However WP when used by artillery is a burster shell. It explodes high maybe 200-300 ft above the target.
The purpose is to generate smoke.

It generates a LOT of smoke.
It also generates it almost instantly.

WP is not very effective at killing troops.
The round explodes high and spreads WP "chunks" over a 20m-100m radius.
The blast is not very dense. It is just designs to spread the WP around to produce smoke in a larger area faster.

99% of the area in a 50m radius below a WP round is NOT hit by WP it simply gets smoke from nearby burning WP.

High Explosive on the other hand will kill anything and everything unarmed within a 50m radius. The diameter of the blast is a football field.

If you had to destroy a target which would you use:
1) a round that spreads 12 chunks of burning WP over a 50m radius and hope that randomly one will hit the target
2) a round that cuts a 50m hole in the ground and destroys anything unarmored inside it