Grenade Launcher

Granatwerfer

Modern Age Light InfantrySiegeHero capable

The mortar solved a problem that neither artillery nor the rifle could: how to drop high-explosive ordnance nearly straight down into a trench. Simple, cheap, and portable, the mortar could be carried by two men, set up in minutes, and lofted bombs over terrain features that flat-trajectory guns could never reach. British Stokes mortars, German Minenwerfer, and their descendants saturated the killing grounds of the Western Front and later every theater of the Second World War. A trained crew could achieve a rate of fire that pinned entire companies in place, each round arriving with almost no warning sound. On the battlefield the mortar team is the infantry commander's indirect fire asset — capable of suppressing machine gun nests, clearing trenches, and breaking up counterattacks without requiring line of sight. It remains fragile in close combat and must be protected by supporting infantry.

Food

70

Gold

30

Iron

30