Mortar Shell
| “ | An explosive projectile fired from a mortar. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The Mortar Shell is an anti-structure artillery Shell used by Mortars.
Description
Like other artillery shells it is indirect fire: it has a natural inaccuracy which increases with range, its trajectory is affected by the wind, and it can trigger the retaliation of Howitzer Garrisons.
It explodes on impact. The explosion deals 300 High Explosive damage in a 2.5m radius and decreasing amounts in a 5m radius.
It's effective against most structures but much less against very resistant ones, and awful against Trenches. It is not very effective against armored vehicles and its innacuracy makes it hard to hit a mobile target. It can disable their subsystems (the tracks in most cases). It can kill infantry and unarmored vehicles although that isn't cost efficient.
It does not stack in the player's inventory (1 per slot) except when wearing a Heavy Ammo Uniform (stacks of 2 per slot).
Its weight is reduced by 33.3% when wearing a Heavy Ammo Uniform.
Usage
Users
It can be fired by the following infantry weapons, vehicles, and structures:
• Cremari Mortar 
• 74b-1 Ronan Gunship 
• Devitt-Caine Mk. IV MMR 
• Emplacement House 
• HH-d “Peltast” 
• Type C - “Charon” 
Production
| Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 Factory (Heavy Arms) | 60 x Basic Materials  70 x Explosive Powder  | 1 Crate of 15 x Mortar Shell  | 00:01:40 |
 Infantry Kit Factory (Small Arms Workshop) | 385 x Explosive Powder 65 x Construction Materials  12 MW of power  | 10 Crate of 15 x Mortar Shell | 02:30:00 |
 Mass Production Factory (Heavy Arms) | 60 x Basic Materials 70 x Explosive Powder | 1 Crate of 15 x Mortar Shell | 00:16:40 |
Mass Production Factory orders must have at least 3 crates.
Storage
It does not stack in structure or vehicle inventories (1 per slot) except in ammo slots dedicated to it (varying stack sizes). It can be stored in stockpiles of Bases (32k max).
Crates of Mortar Shell can be directly submitted to any item stockpile that accepts that item to transfer their content.The crates can also be stored in the crate stockpiles of Storage Depots (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Seaports (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Shipping Containers (60), or Storage Ships (1000).
It can be transported by almost any vehicle with inventory slots. However it is much more efficient to transport it in bulk amounts as crates, either delivering them to a Base's stockpile with a Truck or to a crate stockpile with shipping vehicles carrying Shipping Containers.
Gallery
The explosion of a Mortar Shell
• Coal 
• Components 
• Copper 
• Damaged Components 
• Iron 
• Rare Metal 
• Salvage 
• Sulfur 
• Wreckage 
• Assembly Materials II 
• Assembly Materials III 
• Assembly Materials IV 
• Assembly Materials V 
• Barbed Wire 
• Concrete Materials 
• Metal Beam 
• Pipe 
• Processed Construction Materials 
• Rare Alloys 
• Sandbag 
• Steel Construction Materials 
• Thermal Shielding 
• Unstable Substances 
