Mortar
From FarCry 2 Wiki
Description & Location
The mortar is a long range explosive weapon and is classed as a special weapon. It is first found when the jackal saves you from the sandstorm and you are told to assassinate the APR or UFLL leader depending on who you assassinated first. It can also be bought from the gun shop halfway through act 2 if used properly it can create lots of damage and can clear an entire guard sight with one well aimed shot but it also degrades extremely fast so its best to keep one in your safehouse crates as a spare if you wish to use it lots.
Damage: 5/5 Range: 4/5 Accuracy: 2/5 Reliability: 2/5 Fire Rate: 0.5/5
Targeting
The mortar is a very difficult to aim but there are 2 types of rockets blue rockets are a targeting rocket that brings up a yellow smoke where your mortar will land you can then fire explosive rounds by pressing X for xbox 360 or Square for PS3 while aimed do not pick up your mortar when intending to fire at the same place as your yellow smoke as your targeting resets the leafsight. The disadvantage of the yellow smoke rounds are that they scare the town or targets and cause them to run around making them harder to hit.
There is a way to target without the yellow smoke but this requires some skill each notch in the mortar leafsight is about 80 metres and the max range is 1200 metres since there are 15 notches so if you can guess the distance from you to the target you could use the leafsight to aim.
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zakd6_pQoo - Taking out a guard post with mortar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6bvG3OCNRI - using a mortar
(Video 1 property of joostevens) http://www.youtube.com/user/joostevens
(Video 2 property of undefinedauthority) http://www.youtube.com/user/undefinedauthority
