Talk:Mortar Team/@comment-1838919-20140502161444

This is an excellent early unit. You can get one free, but having 3 and buying the Frag Shell 2nd attack you can easily breeze through early enemies.

It does eventually lose power, but the closest non-nanopod units are the Grenadier which is much worse, and the Aries which comes much later, takes up Merits, and it less durable. You wont see anything actually better until about level 30.