The most annoying thing about mortars is that just like arena, I can't disable the pop up thing when I capture a mortar.

thanks for your nelightment... never used them before either. and won't

I've maxed out Increased Mortar Damage. Can confirm that mortar is still useless and I still won't use them. And I won't unlock auto-mortar because I don't want money to be wasted on mortars during battles.

Yea the popups are annoying. Same with powers, digs, maybe 1 or 2 other things. Powers have an option to disable the popup but it doesn't work.

What's also annoying about mortars is that you have to remember which ones you've loaded and go back to them yourself an hour later. Unlike hospitals, mercs camps, etc, there's no list in the menu tabs to show you where they are, cost of upgrading, how many shots loaded, how many shots remaining, etc. Not that it matters b/c I won't use them until some future upgrade makes them useful, but just some things I noticed in my initial testing.

On the bright side Math, when that fictitious future update does make mortar useful, you've already got the AP Adv to gain from them. lol

One thing Ive noticed about Mortars is on hardened levels loading them seems really cheap so far. Ive played 3 hardened levels and at least the first 2 loads are less than 200M. Havent loaded one 3 times.

Not yet there...
very happy to see some improvement but still way off... example: loading for a 50% chance to hit on the biggest target in range (which if successful would mean a reduction of 50M armies on the target) cost 387M. At a mercenary camp for that same amount I can hire 88M armies, for sure (not 50% chance) and I can use these where I want... so still about 352% worst than mercenaries, and I'd rate those a pretty poor investment after the first few cheap camps...

Considering the limited range and time required I think mortars still need to get at least 4 times better than they currently are to be even worth a try...