Mortar Brig

[Landsman]

I want to try something new and thus i am looking at the mortar brig atm... Are there perfect / meta builds for the mortar brig depending on shallow or deep water PBs ( wood type, upgrades, perks etc.) ? Is there a guide for it out there? And most importantly: Does the mortar brig actually have a high skill ceiling that leaves room to master it? It doesn't seem very complicated and the long time of the balls in the air make it seem more like gambling than actual aiming skill is required to hit moving ships...

Thanks in advance.

[DeRuyter]

You should not be concerned with hitting moving ships with the mortars. Your targets are the towers and forts and there is a bit of positioning skill involved so it is easy to keep the aiming circle on the target and to minimize the flight time of the balls. Of course if you destroy all the forts well then look for slow moving line ships - nothing more satisfying in MB then getting a strike in on a 1st rate and taking out a mast!

As for meta builds it is really the same for any PB. Not sure of any guides on this. The MB is slooow so you want either fir or cedar. Usually if caught you are dead so the priority is speed to get in range faster. I haven't used the MB post wipe, but you wanted the Mortar officer perk and any reload mods you could get. So I would say - British Gunners (Sargent), Bow Fig Lion, Open Mag Access, Congreve's sights, Swing Bed & elevating screw.  Of course may not want to pay to reset perks just for MB.

[Landsman]

2 hours ago, DeRuyter said:

fir or cedar

Even in shallow PB?

[Landsman]

2 hours ago, DeRuyter said:

Swing Bed & elevating screw

Are you sure this does anything on MB?

[DeRuyter]

19 hours ago, Landsman said:

Even in shallow PB?

I suppose you could play around with different frames to make the ship less squishy for shallows. Maybe teak frames and cedar planks. Still if a Mercury singles you out in the MB won't help in the long run unless a team mate is escorting you.  

[DeRuyter]

19 hours ago, Landsman said:

Are you sure this does anything on MB?

No note sure - but it should IMO at least increased elevation to give more range.

[Hodo]

4 minutes ago, DeRuyter said:

No note sure - but it should IMO at least increased elevation to give more range.

Increasing elevation on a mortar is not going to increase range. 

[DeRuyter]

1 minute ago, Hodo said:

Increasing elevation on a mortar is not going to increase range. 

Good point - What it shows is that you have an optimal trajectory for mortars between range and vertical strike, which looks to be 60 degrees.