Carrier Flagship (BTD6)
For the upgrade in Bloons TD Battles 2, see Carrier Flagship (Battles 2).
Carrier Flagship
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 Does extra damage. Can place other Monkeys on the upper decks of the ship and increases attack speed of all water based Monkeys and Monkey Aces.
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| Tower | Monkey Buccaneer — Path 1 — Tier 5 | |
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| XP cost | 37,000 | |
| Cash cost | $20,825 — Easy $24,500 — Medium $26,460 — Hard $29,400 — Impoppable | |
Carrier Flagship is the Monkey Buccaneer's path 1 tier 5 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It improves all weapons of the Aircraft Carrier's aircraft. Carrier Flagship provides a buff to all water towers and Monkey Aces on screen, including itself, which reduces their attack cooldown by 15%, or a ~17.6% attack speed increase. Carrier Flagship gains two platforms on its main tower which towers may be placed onto.
If Hot Shot is purchased, Carrier Flagship increases the damage of its damage-over-time effect from 4 to 9.
Mechanics
Attacks
Carrier Flagship grants improvements to all of its aircraft's attacks.
- Forward Darts: Increased Ceramic damage by +3, increased pierce by +3. Also, can fire at Bloons from any direction instead of only within a 60 degree field of vision.
- Radial Darts: Increased Ceramic damage by +3, increased pierce by +5.
- Grapes: Increased Ceramic damage by +3, increased pierce by +5.
- MOAB Missile: Increased damage by +15, increased pierce by +1, decreased attack cooldown by 50% (doubling its attack speed), and granted the ability to damage Bloons with the Black property (i.e. DDTs).
With Hot Shot, the damage-over-time effect of grapes from both the main tower and aircraft are increased by +5.
Carrier Flagship's base attack also increases pierce by +4.
Buff
Carrier Flagship grants a buff to all towers on screen which are in water, as well as Monkey Aces, which decreases their attack cooldown by 15%. It does not apply to land towers which are on an ice platform provided by Arctic Wind. This buff can apply to the following towers, excluding Paragons:
- All Monkey Buccaneers including itself
- All Monkey Subs
- All Monkey Aces
- Admiral Brickell
- Mermonkeys if placed in water
- Pat Fusty if placed in water
- Sun Temple and True Sun God if placed in water
Platforms
Carrier Flagship has two platforms onto which towers may be placed. The platforms can only fit towers with a Medium footprint or smaller and are considered land. If Carrier Flagship is sold or sacrificed, all towers on its platforms are forcibly sold as well, unless it is upgraded to Navarch of the Seas, which will relocate all towers to their respective sides of the Navarch platforms, and only keep the first towers that are placed on each platform.
These platforms may allow towers to be placed in otherwise inaccessible locations, such as directly on the track and over placement blockers. Towers placed there have increased height, with the right platform being higher than the left. This allows them to see over some line-of-sight blockers.
These platforms block placement of towers on their edges, and block placement of water towers unless near Lord of the Abyss.
Crosspathing
| Crosspathed With | Effect |
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| Grape Shot (5-1-0) | Radial Darts replaced by grapes, adds Grape Shot attack to main tower. |
| Hot Shot (5-2-0) | They also gain a fire damage-over-time effect which deals 9 damage per tick, and lasts for 3.1 seconds. This effect ticks every 1.5 seconds for grapes from the main tower, and every 0.5 seconds for grapes from aircraft. |
| Long Range (5-0-1) | Main tower gains +11 units of range. All darts, from both the main tower and aircraft, have increased pierce by +2. Main tower's darts and forward darts gain increased projectile speed. All aircraft darts gain increased projectile lifespan. |
| Crow's Nest (5-0-2) | All attacks gain Camo detection.[fn 1]. |
Stats
These stats do not include the Carrier Flagship's buff, which it virtually always has.Template:BTD6 stat list by upgrade
Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 5-0-0 | $32,680 | $38,450 | $41,525 | $46,140 | $22,876 | $26,915 | $29,068 | $32,298 |
| 5-1-0 | $33,145 | $39,000 | $42,120 | $46,800 | $23,202 | $27,300 | $29,484 | $32,760 |
| 5-2-0 | $33,570 | $39,500 | $42,660 | $47,400 | $23,499 | $27,650 | $29,862 | $33,180 |
| 5-0-1 | $32,850 | $38,650 | $41,740 | $46,380 | $22,995 | $27,055 | $29,218 | $32,466 |
| 5-0-2 | $33,145 | $39,000 | $42,120 | $46,800 | $23,202 | $27,300 | $29,484 | $32,760 |
Update history
For a complete list of Monkey Buccaneer changes, see Update history:Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6).
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Selling will no longer cause towers placed on top of it to become unusable (bug fix)
- Fighter plane: projectile lifespan doubled
- Main attack: Now retains the 3-x-x rate boost instead of 1-x-x ― 0.75s → 0.15s
- Overall cost reduced by $1,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Main attack: can now pop lead (bug fix)
- 5-0-2
- Mini-plane: no longer loses camo detection upon loading a save (bug fix)
- Towers can no longer fall through the platforms (bug fix)
- 5-1-0, 5-2-0
- Grape Shot: Now fires 10 grapes at a time instead of 5 (11 instead of 6 with
Big Bunch)
- 5-2-0
- No longer crashes the game sometimes when placed next to a 2-5-0 Monkey Village (bug fix)
- Plane: Missile attack added, with higher damage and pierce compared to Aircraft Carrier
- Plane dart: Now deals +3 damage to Ceramic
- Plane dart: Projectile speed doubled
- Rate buff: Now also applies to Monkey Aces
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Aircraft carriers have ongoing trouble with missing targets, these changes can hopefully offer a few extra ways of supporting the weakness internally while we keep investigating this.
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- Plane forward attack: Projectile radius increased ― 2 units → 4 units
- Plane missile attack: Damage type changed ― Explosion → Normal
- Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Overall cost reduced by $250 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Desync between the Flagship platforms when placed on moving platforms resolved (bug fix)
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Bottom crosspath feels behind compared to others here, so in addition to the new Camo Prioritization filter Longer Range on this path will now also grant bonus pierce.
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- 5-0-1, 5-0-2
- Long Range now increases the pierce of plane darts by 1
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While working on the Ace paragon we found a way to make homing appear much cleaner on super long-range attacks, so we’d like to try out this new setup on the Flagship for a little experiment to see if this improves the gameplay feeling there.
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Flagship new homing style
- Overall cost reduced by $200 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Reworking Grape Shot crosspathing as it gains far too much crosspath value by T2 but then is lacking in purpose at higher tiers, double shot will only work as one extra grape however Destroyer will now apply its full attack rate buff to the grapes and Flagship will equip aspects of Grape Shot on the mini planes.
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- Aircraft Carrier missiles now follow tower target priority
- Aircraft Carrier plane radials damage ― 1 → 2
- 5-1-0, 5-2-0
Grape Shot: projectiles reduced ― 10 → 6- Grape Shot: attack cooldown decreased ― 0.39s → 0.195s
- Aircraft Carrier planes radial attack now fires an arc of grapes instead of darts
- Aircraft Carrier planes radial Emission Angle ― 360 → 90
- Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile count ― 8 → 6
- Aircraft Carrier plane grape projectile speed ― 100 → 200
- 5-2-0
- Aircraft Carrier planes radial damage type ― Sharp → Fire
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Small tweaks to Buccaneer’s Long Range upgrade to improve its additional pierce benefit for a number of attacks.
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- 5-0-1, 5-0-2
- Plane darts: Bonus pierce increased ― +1 → +2
- Resolved some issues with Aircraft Carrier planes being blocked from spawning on Water Park (bug fix)
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Aircraft Carrier is just a little expensive for what it offers over staying at T3, and Flagship high-end strategic value recently became a little harder due to synergies being price nerfed, so we’re doing some small cost cutting between the two of these upgrades mainly to relieve that loss for the T5 slightly but also help T4.
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $25,000 → $24,500
- Overall cost reduced by $800 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Resolved a build order bug that could prevent flagship from applying its buff to waterbound Sun Temples (bug fix)
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Aircraft Carrier has many problems in general and we could write multiple paragraphs about what went on with the decision making on this one upgrade but tldr; overhauling the feel with a big shuffle around of stats and greatly improved targeting to make the tower far more enjoyable & reliable.
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- Plane main attack: Now seeks Bloons
- Plane main attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Plane main attack: Range increased ― 200 → 250
- Plane radial attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4
- Plane radial attack: Max distance reduced ― 150 units → 60 units
- Main attack: Projectile radius no longer increased
- Plane main attack: Projectile count increased ― 1 → 2
- Plane main attack: Projectile speed no longer increased
- Plane main attack: Pierce reduced ― 14 → 7
- Plane main attack: Damage type ― Normal → Sharp
- Plane radial attack: Projectile speed no longer increased
- Plane radial attack: Projectile radius no longer increased
- 5-2-0
- Plane radial attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Fire
- Plane radial attack: Now applies Fire-type damage over time
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General improvements made to higher tier DoT applications for Buccaneer. The pierce from bottom crosspath seems to be better after destroyer currently, so this also acts as some crosspath balancing for Flagship.
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- 5-2-0
- Grapes (main and aircraft): Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 2 → 9
- Planes now have camo restored when Polyphemus Eye is opened (bug fix)
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Aircraft Carrier has been performing well above its price point so this is being increased, though it is also worth noting due to a bug fix in Flagship’s AI also in this update we expect it may overall still be improved.
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- Overall cost increased by $1,100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- "Planes should no longer occasionally pause attacks for no reason" (bug fix)
- 5-0-2
- Crow's Nest grants extra pierce to forward attack ― +0 → +7 (bug)
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Aircraft Carrier is too high power for the price so we are reducing plane attack speed but have left 420 path radials unchanged as it has been the less powerful crosspath after T3 for a while.
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- Main attack: pierce increased ― 4 → 7
- Plane forward attack: cooldown increased ― 0.15s → 0.18s
- Plane radial attack: cooldown increased ― 1s → 1.2s
- Note: Cooldown when crosspathed with Grape Shot remains the same
- 5-0-2
- No longer increases the pierce of forward attack by 7 (bug fix)
- Buccaneer Planes should again attack when facing directions other than south (bug fix)
- 5-1-0, 5-2-0
- Plane Radial Attack: Projectile speed no longer decreases with the middle crosspath ― 100 → 200 (bug fix)
- Overall cost increased by $300 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6s → 0.7s
- Plane missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s
- Plane main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.8333s → 0.9333s
- Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6s → 0.7s
- 5-0-1, 5-0-2
- Plane main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.8s → 0.9333s
- Plane main attack: Projectile speed increased ― 350 units/s → 375 units/s
- Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 0.75s → 0.7s
- Plane radial attack: Projectile speed increased ― 100 units/s → 125 units/s
- Plane missile attack: Projectile speed increased ― 25 units/s → 31.25 units/s
- Note: Makes the missiles less accurate due to the turning speed remaining the same
- 5-1-0, 5-2-0
- Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.3s → 0.35s
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We’ve also improved the Flagship's Aircraft buff to give a more rewarding final payoff.
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $24,500 → $26,000
- Global attack speed buff increased ― 0.85× → 0.8×
- Note: This represents an attack speed increase from +18% to +25%
Gallery
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Assets
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | سفينة القيادة الرئيسية إحداث ضرر إضافي. إمكانية وضع القرود الأخرى على الطوابق العليا للسفينة وزيادة سرعة الهجوم لجميع القرود والقرود القائمة على الماء والقرود الطائرة. |
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| Danish | Flaghangarskib Gør ekstra skade. Kan placere andre aber på skibets øvre dæk og øger angrebshastigheden af alle vandbaserede aber og pilot-aber. |
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| German | Träger-Flaggschiff Verursacht Extraschaden. Kann andere Affen auf dem Oberdeck des Schiffs platzieren und erhöht die Angriffsgeschwindigkeit aller wasserbasierten Affen und Affenfliegerasse. |
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| Spanish | Portaviones insignia Hace daño extra. Puede poner a otros Monos en los niveles superiores de la nave y aumenta la velocidad de ataque de todos los Monos acuáticos y Monos Ases. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Portaviones insignia Hace daño extra. Puede poner a otros Monos en los niveles superiores de la nave y aumenta la velocidad de ataque de todos los Monos acuáticos y Monos Ases. |
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| Finnish | Tukialuslippulaiva Tekee lisävahinkoa. Voi asettaa muita apinoita laivan yläkannelle ja lisää kaikkien vesipohjaisten apinoiden ja lentäjä-ässien hyökkäysnopeutta. |
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| French | Vaisseau amiral transporteur Inflige davantage de dégâts. Peut placer d'autres singes sur les ponts supérieurs du navire et augmente la vitesse d'attaque de tous les singes aquatiques et singes pilotes d'élite. |
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| Italian | Nave ammiraglia Infligge danni extra. Può collocare altre scimmie sui ponti superiori della nave e aumenta la velocità d'attacco di tutte le scimmie acquatiche e delle scimmie asso. |
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| Japanese | キャリヤー旗船 追加ダメージを与える。船の上方の甲板にモンキーを配置でき、全ての水ベースのモンキーとモンキーエースの攻撃速度をアップする。 |
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| Korean | 항공모함 기함 추가 피해를 줍니다. 상갑판에 다른 원숭이를 배치할 수 있으며, 모든 수중 원숭이와 에이스 원숭이의 공격 속도가 증가합니다. |
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| Dutch | Vlaggenschip Doet extra schade. Kan andere Apen op de bovendekken van het schip plaatsen en verhoogt de aanvalssnelheid van alle Waterapen en Apenpiloten. |
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| Norwegian | Transport-flaggskip Gir ekstra skade. Kan plassere andre aper på de øvre dekkene til skipet og øker angrepshastigheten til alle vannbaserte aper og apeess. |
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| Polish | Flagowy lotniskowiec Zadaje dodatkowe obrażenia. Może umieszczać inne małpki na pokładzie statku i zwiększa prędkość ataku wodnych małpek oraz małpek pilotów. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Nave Mãe Causa dano extra. Pode colocar outros macacos nos convés superiores do navio, aumenta a velocidade de ataque de todos os macacos aquáticos e Macacos Áses. |
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| Russian | Флагманский авианосец Наносит доп. урон. Можно размещать других обезьян на верхней палубе корабля, а все водные обезьяны и обезьяны-асы атакуют быстрее. |
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| Swedish | Hangarfartygsflaggskepp Ger extra skada. Kan placera andra apor på fartygets övre däck och öka attackhastigheten för alla vattenbaserade apor och apess. |
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| Thai | เรือธงบรรทุกเครื่องบิน ทำดาเมจเพิ่มเติม สามารถวางลิงอื่นๆ ที่ดาดฟ้าเรือได้ และเพิ่มความเร็วโจมตีของลิงแบบวางในน้ำทั้งหมดและลิงเครื่องบิน |
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| Turkish | Taşıyıcı Sancak Gemisi Ekstra hasar verir. Diğer Maymunları geminin üst güvertesine yerleştirebilir ve suda konuşlanan tüm Maymunların ve Pilot Maymunların saldırı hızını artırır. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 航母旗舰 造成额外伤害。可将其他猴子放置在船的上层甲板，增加所有水面猴子和皇家飞行员的攻击速度。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 航母旗艦 造成額外傷害。可將其他猴子放置在船的上層甲板，增加所有水面猴子王牌猴子的攻擊速度。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
Footnotes
- ↑ This pierce increase may be a bug.
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