Mortar

The Mortar shoot long range explosive shells every 5 seconds which deal devastating splash damage to every unit within a small radius of the impact point. A Mortar’s major disadvantages are its inability to attack troops within 4 tiles, its low rate of fire and low DPS against high-health troops. Due to the fact that the Mortar’s shell takes a while to reach its target (over a second at maximum range), fast movement troops like Goblins can easily dodge its attack if they are moving when the Mortar fires. The Mortars cannot target air troops.

Defensive Strategy

•  It is an effective strategy to place Mortar at center of your base. Its long range shoot allows the Mortar to attack from far behind other structures.
• Since the Mortar deals heavy splash damage, it can quite rapidly eliminate attacking troops.
• It is smart to form a triangle or square with your Mortars near the center of your base, doing so allows multiple Mortar to attack the same area.
• Be careful when upgrading the Mortar, as many players use this as a chance to attack. For this reason it is a good idea to upgrade one Mortar only at a time.

Offensive Strategy

• The Mortar’s blind spot, low rate of fire, and inability to target air troops tends to make them at risk to a wide variety of different attacks. Fast movement troops like Barbarians or Goblins can rush to the Mortar and quickly enter its blind spot.
• The Mortar’s relatively low Hitpoints tends to make it very vulnerable to Giants and Lightning Spells. It takes only a pair of appropriately-leveled Lightning Spells to destroy any Mortar.
• Their inability to target air troops tends to make Mortar easy pickings for the Balloons, Dragons and Minions if they are not covered by Air Defenses.
• When deploying troops, try to avoid deploying ground troops in clumps. The Mortar does great splash damage.

LEVEL	DAMAGE PER SECOND	DAMAGE PER SHOT	HIT POINTS	COST	BUILD TIME	EXP. GAINED	TOWN HALL LVL. REQUIRED
Lvl 1	4	20	400	8,000	8h	169	3
Lvl 2	5	25	450	32,000	12h	207	4
Lvl 3	6	30	500	120,000	1d	293	5
Lvl 4	7	35	550	400,000	2d	415	6
Lvl5	8	40	600	800,000	4d	587	7
Lvl 6	9	45	650	1,600,000	5d	657	8
Lvl 7	11	55	700	3,200,000	7d	777	9
Lvl 8	13	65	750	6,400,000	10d	929	10