Mortar Tower

The Mortar Tower is a tower available to research instantly. It is relatively cheap. Researching this is required to then research the Mine Tower.

Effectiveness
The Mortar tower is very useful, even one tower can do what is needed. It is good for its long range, power and it's area of effect. It is useful in most situations against all insectocytes. however, using this alone is not a good strategy. It cannot hit air except under special circumstances, and it is the same with sprinters and burrowers, as burrowers usually retreat below ground as the mortar is about to strike. Mortar towers cannot effectively predict a sprinter's position when the round lands. Without the Machine Gun Tower at least, it is basically pointless. It has an understandably slow rate of fire and is quite inaccurate (although this is no great inconvenience because of its area of effect), but early on it is the best tower available, great for demolishing crowds and larger insectocytes alike, a feature no other tower has.

On a side note the splash damage of the Mortar tower is based off of its attack power. Thus with enough amp towers the splash damage can come to equal the range of the tower its self. In vengence mode 4 mortar towers with 8-12 amp towers output much more damage then 4 partical towers with equal amp towers