Hand Mortar

The Hand Mortar is a unique Chinese Artillery unit in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties which happens to be the weakest mortar in the game. It compensates for this by being cheap, able to fire at other units such as other Artillery, and takes up only 1 population. It dies quickly against Cavalry but is more effective then other Artillery towards it. This makes them a great "shield" for all other Chinese Artillery to have.

Hand Morters can be put into battle and taken out easily, but are easily killed by Cavalry.