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Gothic buildings tended to use lime mortar. Using cement mortar with bricks for example can cause them to dry and crumble.

Indirect fire munitions do not make for good building materials.

If they are placed high enough it could make for a good position to fire on enemies from a long distance.

J_Chemist Wouldn't that be the grenades though? At most, the tubes are only used.

You said that indirect fire munitions do not make for good building materials. But mortars are not the ammunition, but rather the guns themselves.

Mortars are the munition.
The tubes are the guns.

Grenades are things you throw. With your hands. They have a pin you pull, with your fingers, and a lever/spoon that releases when you throw it, with your hands.

I will say that when you say "Mortars", it can be confusing because you can use the same word to refer to the gun and the munition.
The munitions are named Mortar Rounds. The tubes are just Mortars. So it can get confusing.

This is why we typically refer to the rounds by their sizes, even artillery rounds, to avoid that.

Ah, and to add-- while Mortars and Howitzers are both classified as "Artillery" and/or "Indirect Fire Munitions", we refer to Howitzers as Artillery and Mortars as Mortars, not artillery. Only because Mortars are typically a company level munition an--

You correctly referred to mortars rounds. Not mortars. Mortars are clearly the guns, not the ammunition.

Grenades. The addendum hand is often used. As grenades are not necessarily hand held. Hand grenades are. Others are not. They just denote shells filled with explosives.

Excluding mortars from the artillery department seems a priori counterintuitive, considering the historical use of super heavy mortars. But admittedly, the classical siege mortars have disappeared.

Ah yes, I do enjoy being told how to refer to stuff I use for my job and have physically touched, utilized, called in, and trained with.

Please. Tell me more. I am certainly listening.

That doesn't imply competency at what you are doing. It is merely an indicator. Show me the inventory.

Ooooh! Am I going to see War Thunder situation on SH forums???

Or, you know, you can show your source that is apparently better than actual hands-on training, briefings, and the military shoving it down my throat for several years. I do enjoy civilians trying to tell me what my job is better than me and the SMEs with actual experience.

@SailusGebel The FMs are all open source, you nugget. ArmyPubs is a thing lmfao.