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Riflewizard wrote:If your really dedicated you can make some tools out of paper and pencil.
Simply put the paper up to your screen and mark the appriorate notches based off the maps' grids.
Then you can easily measure distances without having do to any math, accurately and quickly.

You can also download a unit-circle and cut it out and use it to find the angle to the target.

I did this a while back and it was very helpful. You can even engage targets yourself this way as long as there is a fire mission.

Gozjh wrote:I am no mortar wizard but hopfuly I can help. To find out how much large a keypad/grid is, check the bottom right of the map, and it will tell you an increment (75m per grid on 1 km maps, 150m per grid on 2 km maps, 300m per grid on 4km maps). You can use the pathagrian therom to find a near accurate distance. if you set your mortars at one of the intersections of the map grid, you can find how many meters verticaly and horizontialy (on the map) seperates you from your target. by using the following formula:
a^2+b^2=c^2

Some hints about mortaring from me (my clans main mortar):

-Find yourself a quiet but still good reachable spot for your mortars.
It shouldnt be further away then 1-2 mins with a transport truck/ammo car from your
repairstation. And you should always keep in mind, that you just got 1500m range. This is very important on 4km maps. Also dont feel ashamed to take one transport truck / ammo car for your squad. Usually you got several at map starting and most of the time you will just need one for the whole match. No ammo, no mortar support.

-Better find yourself a designated mortar spotter.
If you are playing in a pr clan and got infantry squads running around the map, they can take over that part, but i made the best experience with 3 men running the mortars (2 men firing, 1 resupplying [they can cycle]) and me spotting.

-Dont waste rounds.
For example, you are a good mortar squadleader and you can give exact coordinates and distances, why firing 22 rounds of airbursts (2 full mortars) on 1 man? Give your men orders about the fire mission. Type of ammunition, number of rounds per target, spread. Yes spread. Sometime you just want your mortars to hit one damn bunker with a fob within, sometimes you just want to flatten a whole wood. Your mortarcrew just good a calc and a very limited sight, give them informations about your target (Just fire 5 HE rounds on the marker / I need a full spread airburst attack on the marker. Fire even 50m around it)

-Calculate the right distance / elevation.
Less is more important than the right distance (next to proper spotting). Nothing is more embarrassing than 100m off the target impacts ("Hey guys, you heard that?" "Yeah, these are mortar impacts in the wood 100m left of us." "Are they trying to hit us?" "Probably, cant see any friendlies near this area, just us." "Bah, noob mortars!"). There are tools to calc this, but i will provide you with some ingame options.
Well to get the right elevation arc, you need the right distance and the right elevation. About elevation, you got 3 choices. First is to ignore the elevation. This may work on mainly flatten maps or at short ranges (would say less than 700m). Second one is guessing (again calls for a good spotter), will most of the time be the better choice than ignoring. Third choice is mainly for clan matches, when you are planning your mortar spots. Let an heli land next to your mortars and write down your elevation (taken from the heli pilot spot). Then send him to different spots and let him transmit his elevation.

Now the distance. No, the distance shown at squadleaders or mortar capslock menus is not enough. It can be +24m or -24m off your target. And always remember the first 2-4 shots are the most importants. Usually everyone took cover after 20 seconds of mortar fire. Again you got tools for this, but i found a really useful and good trick to guess the distance right to a few meters. Unfortunately you have to stay with your mortars, but then you can take over the resupplying and just have to find someone else spotting. First of all place yourself between your mortars. Then wait for a proper target f.e. "mortars fire on that triangle building in b5k4"). Now you put an observe marker on that target and take the distance from the capslock menu. Next you take your glasses/gtld and put a proper mortarmarker on that target (dont forget to make one little step forwards, once you lined up with the 2d marker). Now you got a mortar marker, deviating a bit from your observe marker and all you got to do, is to guess the distance between each others. Remember that on 1/2/4km maps one keypad is 25/50/100m big and your deviation cant be more than 25m. Usually its enough to say -20,-10,0,+10,+20. At last give your mortars the exact distance plus your elevation guess and have fun hiting the right targets. With some training, you can do these steps within seconds and they can increase your mortar effectiveness by a lot!

cyberzomby wrote:A LOT of people dont know this but you as a mortar squadmember can see the range from your calculation screen when you press caps lock. Its there on the left of your suicide button. Just like the SL see's it.

'= wrote:H[=Rissien;1554918']Fairly easy to use, just a matter of doing adjusting fast, given the issue on how firemission requests only last like 7 seconds untill you can't see again.