How do you use mortors and knee mortors effectively?

[[SYN] hydraSlav]

Originally Posted by Luscious

Mortars a rough....My biggest difficulkty with them seems to be its min range. I was of the school of thought that in RL one could set that mortar to a pretty shallow angle off vert, and hit stuff at close range....that does seem to be the case in FH. Either that or I just suck.
I have only been effective with them on Nordwind, where the one on the village is most useful on covering the tree line.

These mortars can fire almost vertically, falling literally on your head. There have been many instances when i was sitting on south-western howitzers battery, and was TKed, because the noob 2-meter behind me in a mortar, raised it vertically... and it fell right onto the howitzers

[Nuggetman]

Mortars are such great fun to use... They can be used as Anti-Tank guns so easily, even at close range. Once in Orel I was in the top left flag (C3)


And I had a mortar kit, and there was a tiger attacking the flag. I hid behind a building there, and fired the mortar straight upwards. I then ran around the building quickly to see where it landed, then ran back to the mortar. Fortunately the Tiger was being distracted by an AT soldier, and seemed almost oblivious to the fire raining down around him. After one or two shots, my third mortar round hit the tiger directly, and we managed to cap the flag.

[Oldschool]

mortars in general take a little bit of getting used to, even then it's still hard to use them, but they can be effective. The knee mortar is good for clearing out americans on Mt. Suribachi, the mortar on the docked ship on Meusse River Line is very effective at keeping advancing enemy infrantry off the ship and stops nearby tanks from camping. Other then that, I tend to shy away from the mortars.

[Nuggetman]

Knee mortars can be very useful... but I just use them in the same way that I would a rifle grenade. Just aim them close to the ground with the reticle closed and they fire pretty much straight.

[[SYN] hydraSlav]

Originally Posted by Nuggetman

Knee mortars can be very useful... but I just use them in the same way that I would a rifle grenade. Just aim them close to the ground with the reticle closed and they fire pretty much straight.

Then it wouldn't be a mortar, would it?

[Nuggetman]

It's still a mortar... just not used as one.

[mrchee]

more like a PIAT

[AussieZaitsev]

im fine with the knee mortar...just whatever you do, DONT LEFT CLICK...its like a banzai charge or something

(literally, the projectile falls out of the tube and takes off your feet)

[Andrew_HK]

I want to ask a question about the knee mortar
Why knee mortar cause no damage to the Omaha bunker door??



a screenshot from my map: Burma Pow Camp
i make a jail like this, close by the Omaha bunker door, British need to open the door to get inside and take the flag.
i try to break the door by Piat, it work
but when i try knee mortar, it cannot break the door. Why?

[Arisaka]

Originally Posted by Andrew_HK

a screenshot from my map: Burma Pow Camp
i make a jail like this, close by the Omaha bunker door, British need to open the door to get inside and take the flag.
i try to break the door by Piat, it work
but when i try knee mortar, it cannot break the door. Why?

probably because it's HE, and not AT, and the door is armored as a tank. just fire a lot of mortar rounds at it, and it will probably go. i remember back in .61 and probably .65 that i tried to blow the doors with both hand grenades and rifle grenades. both work if you only fire enough of them.

but i'd rather add a satchel demolition class to the map to take care of that door.