Mortar

The Mortar is an Artillery unit in Age of Empires III.

Overview
The Mortar can be used to counter buildings and ships (if they are stationary), it is however unable to hit land units and is inaccurate. They deal vastly inferior damage to Petards, though they can attack from great range giving them more strategic value in a greater number of situations.

They play similarly to the Trebuchet from Age of Empires II in that they have very long range and must be packed up to move and fire.

Howitzer
Howitzers are an upgrade of the Mortar available once Industrial Age is reached. The overall stats remain the same as in the infobox with a few improvements.
 * Hit Points: 375
 * Bombard Attack: 625
 * Cost: ,

Imperial Howitzer
Imperial Howitzers are an upgrade of the Howitzer available once Imperial Age is reached. The overall stats remain the same as in the infobox with a few improvements.
 * Hit Points: 525
 * Bombard Attack: 875
 * Cost: ,

Home City Cards
Mortars can get card upgrades to make them more effective in their combat capabilities, the Dutch Coehorn Mortars (TEAM card: 20% damage bonus) and the Russians can field Unicorne Mortars (Player card: Gold cost -50% (175 Gold), 20% damage and training time -50%). The Spanish can also augment their mortars with the use of Unction, dramatically increasing the damage.