Glacial Trail

Glacial Trail

Difficulty	Expert
Music	Winter Nights
Default Co-op division	Free-for-all
Introduced	Version 40.0
Entrances	1	Exits	1
Junctions	0	Water?	Yes

Path lengths (RBS)
Easy	Medium	Hard
22.1	20.1	17.7

Glacial Trail is an Expert map in Bloons TD 6, introduced in version 40.0. It takes place on a glacier near icy cliffs.

This map features a unique mechanic where every tower that is not an Ice Monkey will be frozen for 2 rounds every 10 rounds, along with any of their sub-towers. The timing is based on when the tower is placed, not when the game starts, so a tower placed on round 5 will be frozen on rounds 14-15, 24-25, and so on, as will all of its sub-towers, even if they were placed on different rounds. (Sub-towers do not display the ice graphic when frozen.) Frozen towers are effectively "paused": they cannot attack, spawn collectables, or have their Activated Abilities be triggered, and any of their attacks or abilities that are still executing will stop and resume the moment the tower unfreezes. Frozen towers cannot be selected, which prevents the player from selling them or changing their targeting options. Some towers have special properties while frozen:

• Passive tower buffs, such as the Monkey Village's and Striker Jones's buffs, still apply.
• End-of-round cash generation, such as from Benjamin and Merchantmen, still triggers.
• Monkey Aces and Aircraft Carrier planes will still fly around, but not attack.
• Beast Handlers still provide range and Beast Power to non-frozen Beast Handlers if merged.
• Heli Pilots will stop moving, then resume their movement upon unfreezing if they were in the middle of relocating.
• Heroes continue to gain XP and level up while frozen.
• Geraldo's Shooty Turrets, Creepy Idols, Rare Quincy Action Figure, Pet Rabbit, Genie Bottles, and Paragon Power Totems are considered sub-towers and will all be frozen at the same time as Geraldo, regardless of when the items were placed. These towers cannot be selected when frozen as normal, but their behaviour while frozen varies:
  • The Creepy Idol's passive blowback is not considered an attack and continues to apply.
  • The Rare Quincy Action Figure still gains value on rounds when it is frozen.
  • The Bottle of 'Gerry's Fire' Hot Sauce is considered a sub-tower of the tower it is attached to, not Geraldo, so it will be frozen at the same time as the tower it is attached to.
  • Paragon Power Totems can still be sacrificed to Paragons.
• Rosalia will continue moving if she was frozen while relocating normally, but will stop in place if frozen while using Flight Boost.

Layout

Glacial Trail has 3 sections with distinct elevations. The top part is completely blocked off by the small ice cliffs around it, the middle part contains the track with many more ice cliffs and an ice forest in the middle that restrict line-of-sight, and the bottom part contains water and ice, with the water having an elevation too low for most water towers to attack. The freezing mechanic that occurs to most towers every 9+10n rounds after their individual round of placement is shown by the "10" on top of the frozen monkey on the top-left of the water section of this map. Glacial Trail is the only truly single-lane Expert map in BTD6, if Blons is not considered.

Strategy

The freezing mechanic of Glacial Trail makes planning the tower placements for certain rounds very important. For most game modes, this map can be made easier by selling towers that are about to freeze if there is no money to purchase additional defense. On CHIMPS, in general, attempt to place most towers on a round that ends in a 2, so the toughest rounds in the 90s and round 100 can see almost all towers in action, while also getting just enough defense for rounds that end in 1 or 2.

Recommended towers and upgrades

• Perma-Spike — Perma-Spike's ability to last through 3 rounds for 4 rounds in total partially circumvents the freezing mechanic of this map. Even on the second round that it is frozen on, spikes from 2 and 3 rounds before still stay, usually providing ample amounts of spikes for tanking. The single-lane nature of this map further solidifies Perma-Spike's strength on this map.
• Corvus — He pairs well with Perma-Spike thanks to his ability to save up for it and remove large amounts of RBE for it during the late game with Ancestral Might and Overload. Attempt to place Corvus so that he is active on the rounds Perma-Spike is frozen on so that the spikes do not disappear during the rounds that they are not being replentished.
• Ultra-Juggernaut — It shines on Glacial Trail far more than it does on most other Expert maps due to the presence of many walls for it to bounce off. Due to that, Ultra-Juggernaut cleans up significant amounts of RBE and alleviates some pressure off Perma-Spike, and can take care of the mid-game rounds where most other towers are frozen.

Gallery

This article or section needs more screenshots. See the screenshot guidelines for more information on what screenshots are needed and how to add them. The editor that added this notice elaborates: Additional interactions related to Glacial Trail, including animated GIFs of: frozen Monkey Ace + frozen Heli (demonstrate that Aces can still fly while frozen, but Helis don't at all no matter what flight setting), non-frozen Ice Monkey (set on R1 and instantly go R10), frozen other flying towers, cursor trying to click on frozen tower, forced unselected menu once frozen

• Odyssey statue
  Odyssey statue
• Frozen Monkey Ace
  Frozen Monkey Ace

In other languages

Language	Name	Notes
Arabic	درب جليدي	—
Danish	Gletsjerspor	—
German	Gletscherweg	—
Spanish	Sendero Glacial	—
Spanish (LA)	Sendero glacial	—
Finnish	Jäätikköpolku	—
French	Sentier glacial	—
Italian	Sentiero dei ghiacci	—
Japanese	氷河トレイル	—
Korean	빙하의 길	—
Dutch	IJzig pad	—
Norwegian	Isete spor	—
Polish	Lodowcowy szlak	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Trilha Glacial	—
Russian	Ледяная тропа	—
Swedish	Glaciärstigen	—
Thai	เส้นทางธารน้ำแข็ง	—
Turkish	Buzul Yol	—
Chinese (simplified)	冰河之径	—
Chinese (traditional)	冰川之徑	—
This list was last updated for: version 43.3

References

• Path lengths sourced from the BTD6 Index

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