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Latest revision as of 03:35, 19 October 2023
Ordnance SBML two-inch mortar
History
The British Army began producing the 2 Inch mortar in 1938. Small, simple, and relatively easy to use, it was very portable. It also had greater range and firepower over hand and rifle grenades, enhancing the ability of infantry platoons to screen their movements with smoke grenades, or attack targets behind cover with high explosive rounds.
The mortar had a short barrel making it necessary for a soldier to aim it by hand, rather than using a bipod or support, but this contributed to its portability. The short barrel made it necessary to be fired by trigger, rather than simply dropping mortar rounds into the barrel.
Although it originally had collimating and cross-level bubbles to aim it, these were determined to be unnecessary and were dropped in favor of a white aiming line painted on the barrel, which did not affect the accuracy of the mortar in trained hands.
Because of the simple and straightforward design of this light mortar, it was kept in service until the 1970s.
Game Play
The mortarman is armed with two different rounds, High explosive and smoke. he is equipped with ten rounds of each. The mortar is easy to aim use the white line and point in the direct you wish the shells to go. to increase or decrease the range of the mortar use pgUp and PgDn.
Mortars are mostly used for laying smoke screens, if you manage to kill someone with the HE shells you have been incredibly lucky.
for a guide to using the mortar check out Mortar guide.