Mortar Troop

[Exiliado]

The existence of trench mortars in a game without trenches is silly, so I decided that the purpose of mortars is to supplement the main army. Mortars can help shooters take down enemy infantry and help ranged siege land decisive shots against buildings. When they are not busy with those things, they deal good damage on their own. The basic idea is that with the assist provided by mortars, the main army will move along faster, dealing more damage in less time. I usually carry two mortars and am satisfied with the results. I find that they are more helpful against tougher bases.

The problem of shells hitting empty ground is largely one of optics. Ranged siege spend a lot of time moving around picking targets, often wander into danger, and can be just as redundant as mortars when units are plentiful and targets are scarce, but they are quiet about their wasted DPS whereas mortars announce it to the world. Give this troop a chance. Judge it for the damage it deals, not the damage it doesn't.

Be sure to complete the mortar troop DPS research in Uni (under Suleiman) before drawing conclusions. It makes an enormous difference to this troop.

 

[Tsamu]

Manifesto I am saying that they are working as well as the field howitzers. And yes I am choosing easy bases because I don't want to use tactics, mercenaries or alliance troops in most raids, and I want most of my troops to survive so I can attack again in a few minutes. The reduced retrain time of mortars helps with that.

 

[JoseLanderos]

All troop is good only depends on the objective that is raised, of course in world wars will always take the most effective and lethal

 

[Manifesto]

Tsamu, if they work for you then that's good. I tried them on numerous occassions, not just once or twice. They look great and I wish they worked for me as well as my rifles. After many attempts I was retraining them much more than any other troop in my army, and I was usually retraining my howies as well because mortars don't protect as well as rifles do. With my rifles I can pick any type of base.
I found mortars worked well as a cleanup troop but so do bazookas or raiders. I prefer bazookas because they're more powerful and use less troops space.
Ultimately it's horses for courses, eh?