Mortar Monkey

"Targets a specific bit of ground anywhere on the screen. Launches explosive mortar shells to that spot. Useful for placing far away from the track to make room for other towers."

- Bloons TD 5 Description

"Targets a specific area of ground over any distance with an explosive attack."

- Bloons TD 4 Description

 is a tower that attacks slowly by shooting mortar shells at a pre-selected target on the map. It is one of the few towers that infinite attack range. Its target area can be selected by first clicking on the Mortar Tower before clicking at any space on the map you want it to attack at. On the iPhone/iPod Touch version, the target can be re-aimed by tapping the tower once, tapping TARGET and then tapping where you want it to aim. It will continue to attack the selected target area every 4-5 seconds.

This tower is effective at bombarding the beginning area to thin out bloons and also at areas such as U-shaped tracks and in between two close tracks. This is because of its large explosion that can pop lots of bloons at once. Once it has its Bloon Buster upgrade, it can destroy two layers of bloons, although it is still ineffective against Black Bloons and Zebra Bloons until it is upgraded to The Big One or Burny Stuff.

Trivia

 * The monkey next to the Mortar Tower when you upgrade to Bloon Buster and The Big One wears the same clothes as a Glue Striker.
 * In the towers fountain on the main menu, the picture of the Mortar Tower doesn't have smoke coming out of its cannon, but if you click it, the big picture has smoke coming out of its cannon.
 * In Bloons TD 4 this tower can detect camo bloons without upgrades. In BTD5, it won't be able to detect camo bloons without Signal Flare.
 * This tower has a glitch in Bloons TD 5: holding and dragging the Mortar Tower's target controls explosion target like a Dartling Gun.
 * This is one of two towers that can remove Camo status, with the other being the Monkey Engineer.
 * Even with the bigger blast upgrade, sometimes the explosions won't be bigger.
 * The artwork of an unupgraded Mortar Tower and one with Signal Flare both show the monkey with his fingers in his ears!
 * Bloons with monkey napalm can be frozen and the flame still pops while they are frozen.
 * A 2/4 Mortar Tower under the influence of its speciality building fully upgraded can stun nearly every non-MOAB class bloon.