Mortar

Mortar

"Mortar launcher. Lobs bombs over walls. Very inaccurate but long-ranged."

Base Stats

Type

Structure – Security

Market Value

1500 

Mass

200 kg

Beauty

-60

HP

180

Building

Size

2

Cover Effectiveness

40%

Ranged Combat

"Single-shot" is not in the list (Melee, Single-Shot, Single Thrown, Single-Use, Burst) of allowed values for the "Mode" property.

Mode

Single-shot

Damage

50 dmg

Warm-Up

500 ticks (8.33 secs)

Cooldown

1,680 ticks (28 secs)

Range

500 tile(s)

Minimum Range

30 tiles

Accuracy

79% - 42% - 18% - 6%

Velocity

41 (m/s)

Burst Count

1 (per burst)

Miss Radius

16 tile(s)

Blast Radius

3.5

DPS

1.38

The mortar is a manned stationary siege defense mechanism which launches 1-round artillery mortar shell at any enemy that enters its 500-tile firing radius but it will not fire once the enemies have reached within 30 tiles, or can be manually set a forced target. This is one of the three varieties available once Mortars technology has been researched, the other two being the EMP mortar and the Incendiary mortar. All mortar varieties must be placed in an unroofed area to fire. It has a 5.8-second warmup time, has 28 cooldown seconds and a 11-tile forced miss radius. Mortars explode a 4.9-tile radius when destroyed and deal 50 damage

There is no way to increase mortar accuracy. Reliable shelling for this mortar is somewhat expensive and usually requires multiple manned mortars. Do not forget to unassign pawns from mortars, or they will become exhausted, starve, and potentially suffer a mental break.

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  Plan grid: Mortar sits between 4 tiles

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  Manning a mortar

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  Setting a forced target

Strategy

Mortars are effective to attack siege bases, shell raiders while they are preparing or walking towards your base, or shell crashed ships and their mechanoid passengers. While 2 mortars are enough for siege bases, at least 4 will be needed for direct attacks on raiders.

Mortars are ineffective against enemies equipped with shield belts, as they are resistant to mortar hits and those of high qualities can regenerate faster than the mortar fires. Pairing them with EMP mortars can overcome this problem easily.

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Architect

Security

Barricade • Sandbags • Spike trap

(research)

Autocannon turret • Foam turret • Mini-turret • Rocketswarm launcher • Uranium slug turret • Mortar

IEDs

IED trap • IED incendiary trap • IED EMP trap • IED firefoam trap • IED smoke trap • IED antigrain warhead trap • IED tox trap • IED deadlife trap

Related

Antigrain warhead • EMP shell • Firefoam shell • High-explosive shell • Incendiary shell • Smoke shell • Tox shell • Deadlife shell