Tack Shooter

Tack Shooter

Artwork in Bloons TD 6 and Bloons TD Battles 2

The Tack Shooter (Tack Tower in Bloons Tower Defense) is a monkey in the Bloons TD series, introduced in Bloons Tower Defense. Inspired by the Tack Bloon from the Bloons series, the Tack Shooter is its tower counterpart, and included in every game in the Bloons TD series, except for Bloons Pop! and Bloons Adventure Time TD.

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. 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. Throughout the entire series, 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 introduces the Tack Sprayer upgrade and primarily focuses on high DPS. The second path is the range-oriented upgrade path, with extra pierce from the Blade Shooter and Blade Maelstrom.

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, replacing the role that Tack Sprayer has in BTD5. The second path is the 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. In BTD6, it has a Paragon called the Crucible of Steel and Flame.

For more gameplay information on this subject:

• Tack Tower (BTD3) — For gameplay in Bloons Tower Defense 3
• Tack Shooter (BTD4) — For gameplay in Bloons TD 4
• Tack Shooter (BTD5) — For gameplay in Bloons TD 5
• Tack Shooter (BTD6) — For gameplay in Bloons TD 6
• Tack Shooter (Battles) — For gameplay in Bloons TD Battles
• Tack Shooter (Battles 2) — For gameplay in Bloons TD Battles 2
• Tack Shooter (BMC) — For gameplay in Bloons Monkey City

Bloons Card Storm

"Tack Shooter" is a Monkey type shared by five Primary-class cards, including the basic Tack Shooter. All of them are defenders, and most of them have high ammo.

• The  Tack Shooter gains ATK during the opponent's turn.
• The  Extra Range Tack Shooter gains even more ATK during the opponent's turn if the player has no Gold left.
•  Even More Tacks is a temporary defender that cannot attack normally and consumes all Gold the player has when played, gaining ammo depending on the amount consumed.
• The  Tack Sprayer is similar to the Tack Shooter, but costs more, has more ATK and ammo, gains more ATK during the opponent's turn, and takes longer to reload.
• The  Blade Maelstrom gains ATK during the opponent's turn and deals damage to all enemy Bloons each time the player ends their turn.

Other appearances

• While not specifically a Tack Shooter, Wildberry Princess from Bloons Adventure Time TD has an identical method of attack to the Tack Shooter.

General information

Appearance

The base Tack Shooter is a pink cylindrical turret that has 8 barrels equally spaced around its body, with a crossed two-tack emblem on its lid, and reinforced by thick metallic or metal-like fortifications for its base and above the barrels. Each barrel is cylindrical and appear to be made of steel, all supported by each short barrel sleeve from the Tack Shooter's body.

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 basic Tack Monkey. However, the Tack Monkeys for the Ring of Fire and Inferno Ring wear fire insulant suits, as seen in Battles 2. The Crucible of Steel and Flame's Tack Monkey is briefly visible when jumping into its machine after creating that Paragon, with it additionally being displayed in the Paragon's portrait.

Many games in the modern generations feature cameos of the Tack Monkey:

• Bloons Monkey City: on the My Monkeys screen, the description of the Tack Shooter states that it is Monkey operated.
• 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 card art and idle animation

Tack Monkey also features in the "MOAB and Tack Shooter Pin Pack" item from Makeship.

See also

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

Gallery

For more Tack Shooter images, see Gallery:Tack Shooter.

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