Question about mortors

well, in the rules mortars are not classified as claimable. So they really fall under the infantry class. He does have a point that it takes many to be effective at them and technically you cannot lock the infantry squads and running the mortars with 3 is counter productive. You can name your squad mortars, again, it doesnt mean you have rights to them but it should be a "gentlemans" agreement that if you created a squad named mortars, another should not deploy them and hopefully the stragglers should steer clear or at least let them know what your doing and see if they will help out.