Mortar

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Mortar
Credit Cost	800
Credit Cost	800
Wins Required	0
Wins Required	0
Starting Cost	$800
Starting Cost	$800
Sell Price	$400
Sell Price	$400
Damage	Medium (4)
Damage	Medium (4)
Damage Type	Splash
Damage Type	Splash
Range	Far
Range	Far
Placement	Cliff
Placement	Cliff

The Mortar is a long range cliff tower that fires explosive shells at nearby enemies. The Mortar's shells deal splash damage harming all enemies in its splash radius. At base level, the Mortar fires a shell that deals 4 damage every 4.5 seconds (0.88 DPS). Each shell has a splash radius of 4.6.

Appearance

The Mortar has a sleeveless green uniform, with goggles and a black backpack. The mortar artillery is also green.

Upgrades

Rapid Reload ($320)

• Reload time decreases from 4.5 seconds to 4 seconds. (1 DPS)
• Added cosmetics: The Mortar wears black gloves.
• Sell price changes to $560.

Bigger Shells ($480)

• Splash radius increases from 4.6 to 7.8.
• Damage increases from 4 to 6. (+2; 1.5 DPS)
• Added cosmetics: The Mortar's mortar artillery and the shells it fires slightly increases in size.
• Sell price changes to $800.

Heavy Stuff ($2,000)

• The Mortar now has Hidden detection.
• Damage increases from 6 to 15. (+9; 3.75DPS)
• Range increases.
• Splash radius increases from 7.8 to 9.5.
• Added cosmetics: The Mortar's artillery becomes a large, angled cannon, and the shells that are fired are less pellet-shaped. The operator now wears a headset and stands up on a circular support underneath them.
• Sell price changes to $1,800.

Atomic Doomsday ($11,000)

• Damage increases from 15 to 55 (+40; 13.75 DPS)
• Range increases.
• Splash radius increases from 9.5 to 13.
• Added cosmetics: Hazmat-themed colors are given. The cannon becomes even larger, and the shells become orange nuclear rockets. The operator stands in front of a control panel to operate the cannon.
• Sell price changes to $7,300.

Total Cost: $14,600

Total Cost With DJ (20% Off): $11,840

Tactics

• The Mortar is a highly effective crowd control tower, able to defend early even against spawns. It scales strongly into the late game, with high damage for a massive splash radius to cover Hidden Bosses and avoidance to stuns. The tower has very high range at all levels. The only major downsides are its lower damage against single targets and use of a cliff space.
  • The Mortar may not be best suited on most maps due to limited cliff space.
• A level 1 Mortar is reliable in early wave defense of both Versus and Survival due to its large splash radius and reasonable damage, effectively clearing away hordes of Normals, Speedies, Slows, and Mysteries.
• One Level 4 Mortar will cover Hiddens, as well as kill Boss1s.
• One level 5 or three to four level 4 Mortars are able to start wiping out Lavas, and will grant large amounts of money to afford upgrading them to cover Hidden Bosses.
• The Mortar pairs well with towers that it clears for, particularly late-game DPS towers such as Golden Commandos, Zeds, Railgunners, Phasers, and Golden Scouts.
  • Be careful when using Railgunners with Mortars, as they both take cliff space. In addition, Railgunner has a considerably large placement footprint.
• Commanders and DJs can increase the firerate of both the Mortar and the DPS towers it supports. DJs make upgrades cheaper, while Commanders are better suited for the DPS towers, as the range boost is very much unnecessary for the Mortar. Commander’s Call to Arms ability is extremely useful for helping Mortars clear out large hordes of Lavas, Toxics, Slimes and Fire Spirits.

Trivia

• The Mortar has the largest range out of every tower in the game, often reaching outside of the map at level 5 with a Commander's range buff.
• The Mortar is one out of five towers that can be placed on cliffs, followed by the Railgunner, Sniper, Sniper but red, and the Harpoon Hunter.
  • The Railgunner, Sniper, and Sniper but red hold a soda can at level 5. The level 5 Mortar previously held a soda can, but as of the 7/22/20 update, it no longer does.
• Though Mortar can't target Hiddens until level 4, it can still damage and possibly kill them if they are caught the Mortar's splash radius while the Mortar is targeting other enemies.
• The Mortar's level 2 upgrade icon is shared by the Railgunner and Elf on their 2nd levels.
• A level 4 Knifer takes the form of a level 4 Mortar. The same goes for the level 5 Knifer but as a level 5 Mortar.

Update History

• (11/23/17) Mortar added.
• (11/24/17) Mortar appearance changed.
  • The level 5 Mortar holds a bottle of Coca-Cola.
• (9/1/18) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Level 2 upgrade price increased.
  • Level 5 price decreased.
• (9/13/18) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Level 5 damage decreased from 50 to 40.
  • Level 5 upgrade price decreased from $9,600 to $9,500.
• (9/16/18) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Level 5 damage increased from 40 to 50.
  • Level 5 upgrade price increased from $9,500 to $9,600.
  • Splash radius increased.
• (9/17/18) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Firerate at all levels increased by 0.2s.
  • Level 4 damage increased by 6 to 10.
• (2/17/19) Level 5 sound has been changed.
• (8/10/19) Mortar nerfed.
  • Level 5 damage decreased from 50 to 40.
  • Level 5 upgrade price increased from $9,600 to $10,200.
• (7/22/20) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Placement limit of 6.
  • Level 4 damage increased from 10 to 12.
  • Level 4 upgrade price increased from $2,500 to $2,800.
  • Level 5 upgrade price increased from $10,200 to $12,000.
• (7/26/20) Mortar buffed.
  • Placement limit removed.
• (12/25/20) Mortar buffed.
  • Level 1-2 splash radius increased from 4.2 to 4.6.
  • Level 3 splash radius increased from 7.4 to 7.8.
  • Level 4 splash radius increased from 9.1 to 9.5.
  • Level 5 splash radius increased from 12.5 to 13.
• (10/28/21) Mortar rebalanced.
  • Level 1 firerate decreased from 4.3s to 4.2s.
  • Level 4 upgrade price decreased from $2,800 to $2,600.
  • Level 5 damage increased from 40 to 46.
  • Level 5 splash radius decreased from 13 to 12.5.
  • Level 5 upgrade price decreased from $12,200 to $11,000
• (7/4/22) Mortar buffed.
  • Shell speed increased by 0.2s.
  • Level 1 firerate decreased from 4.2s to 4s.
  • Level 3 damage increased from 4 to 6.
  • Level 2-5 firerate decreased from 3.55s to 3.5s.
  • Level 4 upgrade price decreased from $2,600 to $2,000
  • Level 4 damage increased from 12 to 15.
  • Level 5 damage increased from 46 to 55
  • Level 5 splash radius increased from 12.5 to 13.

Old Mortar icon

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 1-3 Shell projectile

Level 4 Shell projectile

Level 5 Nuke projectile