Mortar (Boom Beach Bloons)

Mortar is a defensive tower that is available for Boom Beach Bloons.

Tower Info
Mortar shoots out powerful mortar shells that does a good amount of damage besides it's slow attack speed. Enemies will get splashed by those explosives!

Upgrades
Left side upgrades:

Tier 1 | Damage UP | Upgrade cost: $300 | Increased explosion damage by 2.

Tier 2 | ATK Speed UP | Upgrade cost: $325 | Increased ATK speed by 15%.

Tier 3 | Harder Shells | Upgrade cost: $1,100 | Attacks do double damage to enemies.

Tier 4 | Shellshock Mortar | Upgrade cost: $2,750 | Attacks do increased damage, and stuns troops (except tanks and bosses) momentarily.

Tier 5 | Double Shell | Upgrade cost: $5,250 | Shoots 2 mortar shells at a time with more additional damage!

Right side upgrades:

Tier 1 | Explosion UP | Upgrade cost: $250 | Increased explosion radius by 20%.

Tier 2 | Range UP | Upgrade cost: $275 | Increased ATK range by 15%.

Tips and Tricks

 * It's very good against groups of Riflemen and Bazookas, but it's 4/0 upgrade can help cripple strong and heavy troops with stuns.


 * Due to it's long-range, it can be useful when placing it on the backend of the map and it can shoot projectiles faraway.

History

 * Version 3.0
 * Mortar's projectiles was made 20% faster.
 * Version 5.0
 * Mortar's base cost was increased to 350 (from 300)
 * Also, Mortar's 5th Tier upgrade Double Barrel was added.
 * Version 10.0
 * Mortar's AOE effect was slightly increased.
 * Version 11.0
 * Mortar's Double Barrel cost was decreased to 5,750 (from 6,000)
 * Mortar's Shellshock Mortar cost was decreased to 3,250 (from 3,500)
 * Mortar's Harder Shells cost was decreased to 1,400 (from 1,500)
 * Mortar's upgrade costs below Tier 3 were changed.
 * Version 13.0
 * Mortar's 5th Tier upgrade was renamed to Double Shell (from Double Barrel)
 * Mortar's Double Shell now gives the Mortar a +2 damage increase from each mortar shell (from none)
 * All of Mortar's upgrades were made slightly cheaper!
 * Version 14.0
 * Mortar's Shellshock Mortar stun duration was increased to 1.5 seconds (from 1 second)
 * Mortar's Shellshock Mortar damage increase when upgraded was increased to 7 (from 5)
 * Mortar's Double Shell damage increase when upgraded was increased to 7 (from 2)
 * Also, Mortar's upgrade costs below tier 3 was reduced significantly!

Trivia

 * It is not the worst tower in the game, but the Mortar's very good against grouped up troops.


 * Compared to its Clash of Bloons counterpart, the Mortar has changed in Boom Beach quite a bit with the texture revamp.