Comanche Defense is the Heli Pilot's path 3 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Heli Pilot the ability to summon mini Comanche sub-towers when Bloons reach certain thresholds along the track. Mini Comanches fly fast towards its targets, spawning from the edge of the map closest to them, and are equipped with faster-firing darts and high-damage missiles.
This upgrade also increases the damage of Heli Pilot's main darts from 1 to 2. This upgrade enhances the missile granted by MOAB Shove, increasing its damage from 1 to 3, increasing its pierce from 10 to 30, and reducing its attack cooldown by 66.67%, effectively tripling its attack speed. Comanche Defense also enhances the MOAB pushback of MOAB Shove for BFBs and ZOMGs.
Comanche Defense summons a number of mini Comanches when Bloons reach certain track thresholds:
Number of mini-Comanches
Track threshold
1
25%
2
50%
3
75%
Each summoning can only occur once in a round. Mini Comanches already present count toward the amount summoned: for example, if there is already one mini Comanche and Bloons reach 50% down the track, only one additional mini-Comanche is summoned to bring the total to two.
Mini Comanches follow the main Heli Pilot and last for 15 seconds. They have both a dart gun attack and a rocket launcher attack. Mini Comanche darts deal 1 damage, have 4 pierce, and an attack cooldown of 0.228 seconds. 3 darts are fired per shot, or 5 if Quad Darts is purchased. Darts cannot damage Lead Bloons.
Mini-Comanche rockets deal 4 damage with +2 Ceramic damage. They have 60 pierce and an attack cooldown of 3 seconds. Rockets cannot damage Black Bloons.
Mini Comanches also have 25 units more movement speed from the main helicopter.
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Comanche Defense will now instead spawn 1 Comanche the first time any Bloon crosses 25% of the track each round
Will also spawn 2 additional Comanche at 50% of the track. If the first Comanche is still on screen it’s duration will be refreshed and only 1 extra will spawn
Will also spawn 3 additional Comanche at 75% of the track. If the 2nd set of Comanche are still on screen their duration will be refreshed and only 1 extra will spawn
Comanche will now spawn from the side of the map closest to where the triggering Bloon is located
Comanche spawn movespeed now increased to always be 30 more than the speed of the main Heli ― 45 → 75
Heli Pilot manages on pursuit far too easily without any need to consider Bigger Jets unless camo or downdraft is required. For more crosspath variety than just ‘camo’ we moved more of the base Heli speed out and back into Bigger Jets with an overall buff to Bigger Jets. This should allow Bigger Jets to scale a little better than other helis through early speed ramping. — Update notes
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Overall cost reduced by $1,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
MOAB Shove has had a missile attack similar to xx4’s mini comanches added to provide this path something extra for when the mini comanche are not active. — Update notes
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Gains a mini heli missile attack that has 3 damage and 30 pierce
Comanche Defense mostly suffered during downtime and so the base Heli at T4 has had some general improvements made to power, but the mini helis have also gained a pierce increase to provide the darts with some improved crowd control — Update notes
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Main Comanche dart attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
Main Comanche missile attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 1s (attack speed increased by 200%)
Mini Comanche dart attack: Pierce increased ― 3 → 4
Faster Darts xx1 upgrade will now increase the attack distance of Heli Dart attacks in order to assist with cluttering issues where large numbers of Helis will push each other away from nearby targets. — Update notes
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Overall cost reduced by $500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
Faster Darts increases attack distance of dart attacks by +30%
ComCom is both lacking in pierce damage, and favors the 105 crosspath more than we’d like. This goal for this change is to improve the overall single target power for the missile AoE without such a high pierce number, with only a smaller damage buff for the main darts so existing pierce benefits that can be applied for the main attack remain valuable — Update notes
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Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)
Missile pierce for both main and mini reduced ― 100 → 80
Overall Comanche cleanup and stats shuffle; with the goal of improving baseline non-buffed performance and making it less demanding of Geraldo’s Pickle for high damage. — Update notes
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Mini missile: Damage increased ― 1 → 4
Mini missile: Pierce dencreased ― 80 → 60
Mini missile: Ceramic bonus increased ― +1 → +2
Mini missile: No longer does +2 bonus MOAB-class damage
Mini dart: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.151848s → 0.228s
As MOAB Shove introduced a supportive mechanic at T3 but never expanded on this again we want to start playing around with this some more, it’s quite strong for a T3 so the slow amount was reduced but we’ve made the T4 now better than the T3 was before. — Update notes
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Shove: ZOMG/DDT speed while being shoved is lower ― 0.33× → 0.22×
Note: Also affects 0-1-X crosspath ― 0.22× → 0.11×.
Shove: MOAB speed while being shoved is higher ― -0.33× → -0.3×
Note: Also affects 0-1-X crosspath ― -0.44× → 0.41×.
MOAB Shove’s stalling potential was far too strong for how early and cheaply it becomes available, so we’re dialing back the ZOMG slow amount to keep its late-game impact more balanced. In return, Comanche Defense is getting an increase to these slowing capabilities, giving it the utility for controlling ZOMG movement. — Update notes
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MOAB Shove: Multiplier for MOABs decreased ― ×−0.3 → ×−0.4
Note: This means MOABs will be pushed back faster while being shoved
MOAB Shove: Multiplier for ZOMGs/DDTs decreased ― ×0.22 → ×0.2
Note: This means ZOMGs/DDTs move slower while being shoved
0-1-4, 0-2-4
MOAB Shove: Multiplier for MOABs decreased ― ×−0.41 → ×−0.51
MOAB Shove: Multiplier for ZOMGs/DDTs decreased ― ×0.11 → ×0.09
MOAB Shove’s flexible stalling still stands out as particularly powerful through the whole game, we still want to take our time slowly nerfing this but to reduce single-target lockout we’re increasing the missile damage. — Update notes
Sub-towers no longer gain double the effects of stat buffs such as Berserker Brew (bug fix)
Passive ability: cooldown reduced ― 45s → 25s
Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions
Comanche Defense with no crosspath
Comanche Defense with 104 crosspath
Comanche Defense with 204 crosspath
Comanche Defense with 014 crosspath
Comanche Defense with 024 crosspath
Comanche Defense helipad
Comanche Defense mini comanche
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