Mortar

"A mortar fires big fragmentation bombs. When fired, they can easily sweep away your enemy lines."

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Level 1		Level 2		Level 3		Level 4		Level 5

Level 6		Level 7		Level 8		Level 9		Level 10

Level 11		Level 12		Level 13		Level 14		Level 15

Level 16		Level 17		Level 18		Level 19		Level 20

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• Summary

• • Mortars are the player's heavy defenses. Whenever an enemy comes into range, it blasts out an explosive shell with a low frequency "ping".

• • Mortars have high damage per attack, deal splash damage, and shoot an explosive shell every 5 seconds. Their splash damage, combined with their long range, make them deadly weapons against large numbers of weaker enemies such as Grunts, Musketeers or Pillagers. Its major disadvantages are its inability to attack enemies at close range and its low rate of fire. (Tile range of "blind spot" is 4 tiles.)

• • Due to the fact that the Mortar's shell takes a long time to reach its target (over 1 second), fast troops like Pillagers can easily dodge its attack if they are moving when the Mortar fires.

• • Mortars cannot target air troops.

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• Defensive Strategy

• • Mortars should usually be placed towards the center of your base, preferably behind at least one set of Walls. Its long range allows the Mortar to attack behind other structures. Since the Mortar deals heavy splash damage, it can quite rapidly eliminate attacking Troops; multiple Mortars ensure more destruction and damage. Take care when upgrading, as many players use this as a chance to attack. For this reason it is often a good idea to only upgrade one Mortar at a time.

• • Putting a Mortar and Watch Tower together makes a smart pair, because the Mortar covers a large area while the Watch Tower helps protect the Mortar from mass air troops and covers the Mortar's blind spot.

• • It is a good idea to place Mortars near each other, without them being in the same cell if possible. When more than one Mortars' range overlaps, it creates a kill-zone where almost no ground troops can survive.

• Offensive Strategy

• • The Mortar's blind spot, low rate of fire, and inability to target air troops makes them vulnerable to a wide variety of different attacks. Fast melee troops such as Grunts or Pillagers (after all resource structures are destroyed) can rush to the Mortar and quickly enter its blind spot. Musketeers can also be effective if they are positioned in a circle around the Mortar or if protected by a meatshield.

• • The Mortar's relatively low hit points makes it very vulnerable to Brutes and Hammers as well. Finally, their inability to target air troops makes Mortars easy pickings for Zeppelins and Dutchmen if they are not covered by Scorpios.

• • When deploying Troops, try to avoid deploying ground troops in clumps. The Mortar does wicked splash damage.

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• Trivia

• • The reason why the Mortar has such a low damage per second is because it is a slow firing turret.

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Level	Hitpoints	Damage	Build Cost	Experience Gained	Build Time	Town Hall Level Required
1	250	15	4000	480	8 h	3
2	370	20	14000	600	10 h	6
3	420	25	20000	720	12 h	7
4	440	30	34000	840	14 h	7
5	450	35	52000	960	16 h	8
6	470	40	93000	1080	18 h	9
7	490	45	160000	1200	20 h	9
8	510	50	260000	1320	22 h	10
9	530	55	380000	1440	1 d	11
10	550	60	510000	1800	1 d 6 h	11
11	570	65	660000	2280	1 d 14 h	12
12	580	70	830000	2820	1 d 23 h	13
13	590	75	1100000	3660	2 d 13 h	13
14	600	80	1400000	4620	3 d 5 h	13
15	610	85	1800000	5820	4 d 1 h	14
16	620	90	2400000	7200	5 d	16
17	630	95	3000000	8580	5 d 23 h	17
18	650	100	3700000	10200	7 d 2 h	18
19	660	110	4700000	11880	8 d 6 h	19
20	670	120	6400000	14400	10 d	20