Mortar lancer useless?

[Sejman22]

I never used mortar lancaar sh or VB Mt becouse i fell that waepon is weak compared to granade launcher. Sure they do more DMG but range is horrible, better use grenadiers with Hartman. I think that waepon need rework.

[Sanger Zonvolt]

The mortar lances were already useless in VC1. Now their job is taken over by grenadiers, like you said. I honestly don´t get why they are sitll in the game. I mean properly upgraded anti-personel grenadiers even deal more damage than the mortar lance. At least the mortar from the tank now oneshots most units, making it somewhat usefull.

[Lanzagranadas]

I did find Mortar Lancers useful in certain missions in VC1. I don't see that happening in VC4 at all though, with Grenadiers being a much better option mortar lances feel like a total waste of upgrade branch.

They should have made the third path something new and somehow useful, like an Incendiary AT Lance, or some added effect, or something like that.

[Cubiecal]

It's a super niche weapon, more for flavour if you want different lancer types imo - mortar lancers have the benefit of better defence (antiblast) + HP so they can withstand interception fire better than grenadier (but let's be honest you have spotters and snipers to clear the way for them) and the only use I had for fun was to unload them via APC against crouching units, but again will be redundant once you have access to flamethrowers and better mortars by midgame.

The only time I actually used mortar lancers in a permanent roster was in VC2's multiplayer...

[Lanzagranadas]

I've just checked and, as of chapter 9, mortar lances and hand grenades have the same attack power: 380. So utter pointless so far. I hope at some point they at least out-damage regular grenades because if not it's super dumb.

[Sejman22]

Only Sergio and Largo are viable with mortar, rest are pure anti tank lancers.

[jeffers0329]

Mortar lances are more on the situational side, but compared to VC1, their blast radius got buffed and they deal more damage against infantry especially when they've been upgraded (the highest damage one is an Imperial mortar lance drop with 730 vsPer)

On top of that they have perfect accuracy and they have less damage dropoff from splash compared to grenadiers so close misses from grenadiers that don't kill an enemy would kill them otherwise with a mortar lance (assuming no dodge). There's a couple of maps that would benefit with using mortar lances but again, they're situational

[Powercow]

There's one squad story where it's really, really good. Every other time? Ehhhh...

[Grandy]

they re really good for indoor battle where grenadier will only be able to hit the ceiling, unfortunately indoor missions are rare and limited