Tack Shooter

Tack Shooter

Artwork in Bloons TD 6 and Bloons TD Battles 2

The Tack Shooter is a tower in the Bloons TD series, introduced in Bloons Tower Defense. It is a pink turret that has 8 barrels equally spaced around its body.

Gameplay

Bloons TD series

Tack Shooter shoots 8 tacks per shot in a fixed direction. It has a short range and a moderately slow attack speed, though it does have upgrades that improve its range and attack speed. Tack Shooter has been relatively consistent throughout the series, although its Blade Shooter, Ring of Fire, and Tack Sprayer upgrades have received the most rearrangements. Consistently, the Tack Shooter has upgrades for attack speed and range, and it only introduced upgrades with more than 8 projectiles since BTD5.

When first introduced to Bloons Tower Defense and Bloons Tower Defense 2, the Tack Shooter has two upgrades, improving its attack speed and/or range. Added to Bloons TD 3 is an upgrade that further increases range, plus the introduction of the Blade Shooter upgrade as the successor of the speed upgrade. Bloons TD 4 and mobile version introduces the Ring of Fire upgrade, which switches tacks for flame rings that do rapid area damage.

In Bloons TD 5, Bloons TD 5 Deluxe, mobile version, Bloons TD Battles, mobile version, and Bloons Monkey City, the Tack Shooter returns with two upgrade paths. The first path focuses on high speed, with Ring of Fire being the fourth upgrade of this path. The second path is the range-oriented upgrade path, with pierce added at the third and fourth upgrades.

In Bloons TD 6 and Bloons TD Battles 2, the Tack Shooter is classified as a Primary tower. The first path revolves around maximized attack speed and high damage, evolving into a fiery theme starting from the Hot Shots upgrade, which replaces the role that Tack Sprayer has in BTD5. The second path remains to focus on range-oriented high pierce, but with more focus as a pierce-and-range hybrid. The third path relegates to maximizing the amount of projectiles per second, with additional focus on single-target damage, including the Tack Sprayer upgrade.

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  Tack Shooter (BTD5)
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  Tack Shooter (BTD6)
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  Tack Shooter (Battles)
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  Tack Shooter (Battles 2)
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  Tack Shooter (BMC)

Bloons Card Storm

Main article: Tack Shooter (BCS)

In Bloons Card Storm, the Tack Shooter is a playable unit. It costs 2 Gold to play and does 25 damage with 2 ammo, with 2 reload. It is a Defender with +10 Attack Power during the opponent's turn, allowing it to deal 35 damage to Bloons that are about to leak.

Tack Shooter belongs to the "Tack" monkey class, which holds many other variants of the Tack Shooter that were released in the Bloons TD series.

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  Tack Shooter (BCS)
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  Tack Sprayer (BCS)
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  Blade Maelstrom (BCS)

Tack Monkey

Tack Monkey as it appears in the "Tack Monkey Avatar" profile picture in BTD6

Tack Monkey is a Monkey who operates the Tack Shooter. This monkey is not visible unless it peeks out of the cover of the Tack Shooter, revealing its upper body at most. Clothes are absent from the Tack Monkey, except when operating the Crucible of Steel and Flame.

Many games in the BTD6 Generation feature cameos of the Tack Monkey:

• Bloons TD 6: "Tack Monkey Avatar" profile picture, Crucible of Steel and Flame
• Bloons TD Battles 2: "Operator Monkey" idle animation
• Bloons Card Storm: Tack Shooter idle animation

See also

• Spike Factory, another nail-shooting machine, dispensing spikes instead of tacks