Currently I cannot for the life of me get the mortar to do damage. It works fine in 1.0 but v1.2 it just explodes in your face without hurting at all. As well, when it's used it doesn't give a kill to the player who used the mortar, how can this be acheived?

They are broken in 1.2, presumably due to the testing of mortars and forgetting to reimplement them.

i hadn't noticed they were broken in 1.2, but i know in prior versions they had to be triggered by a func_button to give credit to the player, then they didn't (a trigger_multiple would trigger air strikes killing your whole team, and blaming the triggerer) then they did again
try sacrificing some chickens during compiling, or ask fuzzdad for his secret decoder ring
:)

They are targeted by a func_button, technically they work just fine, it's just the code issues that aren't allowing them to work. I was just curious if this was a full problem for everyone or not.