mortar carrier

Name: Mortaron (Mortar skeleton carrier)
-damage per second: 5 (at lv 1)
-hit point: 150
-training cost: 100 dark elixir
-trainng time: 60s
-explosive damage: 150

-Favorite target: resources (mines, drills, storage, clan castle and town hall)
-Damage type: area splash
-Target: ground
-Housing space: 10
-Movement speed: 5

Description: This skeleton carries a mini but heavy mortar to help you destroy enemy's economy. The mini mortar, however, is too heavy to carry for a skeleton and thus he moves very slowly on the battlefield. Instead, they can shoot enemy resources from a far distance that is out-range of any regular defenses (not eagle artillery and X-bow in ground state). When he is dead, he will turn into a suicide skeleton, carrying burning mortar on his back and run straight toward the nearest storage at 3x his movement speed (including town hall, clan castle). If he bumps into anything on his path, he will cause explosive splash damage.

Appearance: similar to a wall breaker but carrying a mini mortar on his back.

Edit notes: I have removed damage to allies as comments suggested but I would like to keep his long range.

I like the concept of a Dark Elixir troop that targets resources.

I also like the concept of an area splash attacker like a mortar as a troop.

I don't like the idea of how you've detailed the way it will work in the game. Causing damage to your own troops and being out of range for almost all defenses is too much.

Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Johnnyfsullivan

I like the concept of a Dark Elixir troop that targets resources.

I also like the concept of an area splash attacker like a mortar as a troop.

I don't like the idea of how you've detailed the way it will work in the game. Causing damage to your own troops and being out of range for almost all defenses is too much.

Thanks for sharing.

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The idea still valid. I really like it. It just needs a couple of tweaks by not doing damage to friendly troops and shorten damage distant to be the same as archer.

This could a really cool troop

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Originally Posted by arklan

The idea still valid. I really like it. It just needs a couple of tweaks by not doing damage to friendly troops and shorten damage distant to be the same as archer.

This could a really cool troop

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I want it to have a trade off, out range vs explosive damage but maybe you are right, causing damage to our friendly allies is a bad idea.
How about when he is dead, he will turn into a suicide skeleton, carrying a burning mortar on his back and run straight toward the closest storage at 3x his movement speed. If he bumps into anything in his path, he will explode and cause flash damage.
For the long range, I think it is still a good idea since he only targets resources and does not intentionally harm other defenses. I want him to be somewhat over power but not too much so I think having long range than most defenses vs having low hp + slow movement speed is a good trade off. Cost of dark elixir can be increase if you still think it is too cheap for farming at long range