Artillery Battery (BTD6)
For other uses, see Artillery Battery (disambiguation).
Artillery Battery
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 Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks.
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| Tower | Mortar Monkey — Path 2 — Tier 4 | |
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| XP cost | 12,500 | |
| Cash cost | $5,525 — Easy $6,500 — Medium $7,020 — Hard $7,800 — Impoppable With  Budget Battery:$4,925 — Easy $5,900 — Medium $6,420 — Hard $7,200 — Impoppable | |
Artillery Battery is the Mortar Monkey's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It gains triple attack speed and an ability that applies a further 4× attack speed bonus and +15% blast radius bonus for 8 seconds, with a cooldown of 60 seconds. With the Burny Stuff crosspath, the burn damage per tick increases from 4 to 6.
Stats
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey stats, see Stats:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 0-4-0 | $7,565 | $8,900 | $9,610 | $10,680 | $5,296 | $6,230 | $6,727 | $7,476 |
| 1-4-0 | $7,820 | $9,200 | $9,935 | $11,040 | $5,474 | $6,440 | $6,955 | $7,728 |
| 2-4-0 | $8,245 | $9,700 | $10,475 | $11,640 | $5,772 | $6,790 | $7,333 | $8,148 |
| 0-4-1 | $7,735 | $9,100 | $9,825 | $10,920 | $5,415 | $6,370 | $6,878 | $7,644 |
| 0-4-2 | $8,075 | $9,500 | $10,255 | $11,400 | $5,653 | $6,650 | $7,179 | $7,980 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 50.0
Artillery Battery is a solid mid-game tower, with the blasts easily wiping out Bloons, dealing decent blimp damage and wiping out all bloons with Bombardment active. It retains power into the late-game, being a good cleanup tower against Ceramics and wiping out large clumps of low-tier blimps with Bombardment. It is especially optimal on maps with good loops, such as Moon Landing and Dark Path, and can save up for a large variety of late-game towers, including its powerful Tier 5, Pop and Awe. Target it on the densest or most dangerous clump of Bloons or blimps for the best effect. Striker Jones is the optimal hero thanks to his various buffs to Mortars, in addition to Concussive Shell generating bonus stun damage.
The 2-4-0 crosspath is optimal in almost all cases, due to the greater pierce, increased blast radius, and increased damage. 0-4-2's burn is only better than 2-4-0's general damage on Race Events and CT Time Attack, and only if it avoids hitting non-blimp Bloons more than once, especially given its lesser pierce.
Update history
For a complete list of Mortar Monkey changes, see Update history:Mortar Monkey (BTD6).
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Now deals +1 damage to MOAB-Class
- Attack cooldown reduced by 33%
- "Mortars should no longer display line of sight as they can ignore all blockers"
- "The mortar’s projectiles should no longer visually drop back down the barrel"
- Now deals +2 damage to stunned Bloons
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x5x Artillery Battery description updated as ‘triple pain’ doesn’t describe 4x attack speed very well
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- Description changed ― "Artillery battery has 3 barrels for triple the pain." → "Artillery Battery upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks."
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Mortar’s Faster Reload feels like a ‘required’ as a crosspath with Burny Stuff never scaling well on any path but it’s own. We like choices not requirements so to counter this we have made Burny Stuff scale with top-path damage & shifted a small amount of the speed from Faster Reload onto the base mortar and reduced base accuracy considerably.
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Attack cooldown increased ― 0.2695s → 0.27s (attack speed reduced by 0.19% due to changes to the attack cooldown modifiers of previous tiers)- Random spread radius increased ― 18 → 30
- Note: Random spread with X-X-1 Increased Accuracy is unchanged (8)
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We felt like we set up the math quite well with Mortar changes last update, but regardless of this missed shots due to inaccuracy vs. attack speed turned out to be unpopular and impacted the middle path too severely. Fortunately this change led to the community finding some critical bugs in the middle path upgrades there since Mortar’s release! That said, since low tier Mortars were never powerful we chose to leave the speed buff from last update but revert the accuracy nerf.
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- Base accuracy increased ― 30 → 18
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Mortar Monkey has been given a T4 ability, since it didn’t have one and also to make up for Bloon Impact no longer triggering ‘stun debuff’ on MOABs when it hasn’t actually been stunning them.
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- Bombardment ability added
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Artillery Battery’s special stun bonus is completely ineffective against targets which are impossible to stun, so it is receiving a small damage bonus to these targets to compensate.
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- Now deals +4 bonus damage to BADs & Bosses
- Lead/MOAB/Fortified damage bonuses no longer stack (bug)
- Resolved an issue with x4x and higher Mortar Monkeys not applying their damage bonuses at all (These bonuses will not stack still) (bug fix)
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We’re looking to shakeup mortar in a couple small ways this update, along with Striker Jones changes noted further on for ‘multi-mortaring’ synergy. From the base level Mortar has far more pierce than should ever be necessary at low rounds but doesn’t hit beefy enough for the low fire rate, so we are trading up some base pierce for damage, instead moving this lost pierce up into crosspath.
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- Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Explosion: Lead/Mortar/Fortified bonuses should all stack their bonuses on single targets (bug fix)
- Explosion: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 25
- Note: Bigger Blast and its subsequent upgrades unchanged
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BAD/Boss damage was used to help prevent middle path falling flat against strong single targets - but the more recent rework did farr better at bringing great power to this path so we’re cutting back on those bonuses again now.
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- Artillery Battery bonus damage to BAD/Boss reduced ― +4 → +1
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We’re feeling quite happy about the overall state of mortar compared to how it has fared in the past, however the Burny Stuff crosspath is still very hard to justify on middle mortar so along with other DoT attacks in this update we’re trying out a slight increase to damage over time across this path.
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- 0-4-2
- Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 3
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Artillery Battery use has really exploded (!) and over the past few updates it has been sitting fairly steady in a great spot, the current power level feels good but we don’t want to create too big of a gap from the T3 yet so only a very slight cost increase.
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $5,500 → $5,900
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We’ve been happily taking our time on this since it's about time Mortar gets some spotlight, but the middle path has been overperforming far too much for a while now so it is about time to start pushing it up to a more reasonable price range for the power it brings.
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $5,900 → $6,500
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Middle Mortar is seeing improvements mainly for damage over time crosspathing, and we’ve also added Burny Stuff to the Pop & Awe ability with crosspathing.
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- 0-4-2
- Damage over time: damage per tick increased ― 3 → 4
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Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths [...]
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- 0-4-2
- DoT damage increased ― 4 → 6
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Mortar BAD/Boss bonus was introduced to help with some concerns that have been more effectively solved through other means, so as a simplification to understanding these upgrades we are removing the bonuses
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- Bonus damage against BADs and Boss Bloons removed ― +1 → +0
- Description changed ― Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Main attack does more damage to BADs and Boss Bloons and upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks. → Bombardment Ability: Unleashes a rapid fire attack in a slightly wider area. Upgrades to 3 barrels for incredibly fast attacks.
- Overall cost reduced by $150 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- 0-4-2
- Can now inflict damage over time on explosion-immune Bloons (bug fix)
Gallery
For more Mortar Monkey images, see Gallery:Mortar Monkey.
Screenshots
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Artillery Battery with 240 crosspath -
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Artillery Battery Bombardment ability
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In other languages
This section was last updated for: version 49.1
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | بطارية مدفعية | — |
| Danish | Artilleribatteri | — |
| German | Artillerie-Geschütz | — |
| Spanish | Batería de artillería | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Batería de artillería | — |
| Finnish | Tykistöpatteri | — |
| French | Déluge d’artillerie | — |
| Italian | Batteria di artiglieria | — |
| Japanese | 集中砲火 | — |
| Korean | 포병대 | — |
| Dutch | Artilleriebatterij | — |
| Norwegian | Artilleribatteri | — |
| Polish | Bateria artyleryjska | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Bateria de Artilharia | — |
| Russian | Артиллерийский залп | — |
| Swedish | Artilleribatteri | — |
| Thai | กองรบปืนใหญ่ | — |
| Turkish | Topçu Bataryası | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 炮台 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 火砲臺 | — |
| Language | Text | Notes |
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| Arabic | القدرة على القصف: إطلاق العنان لهجوم ناري سريع في منطقة أوسع قليلاً. تتم الترقية إلى 3 براميل لهجمات سريعة بشكل لا يصدق. | — |
| Danish | Bombardement-evne: udløser et hurtigt skytsangreb over et lidt bredere område. Opgradering til 3 løb muliggør utroligt hurtige angreb. | — |
| German | Bombardierungsfähigkeit: Löst einen Schnellfeuerangriff in einem etwas breiteren Bereich aus. Hat ein Upgrade auf 3 Läufe für unglaublich schnelle Angriffe. | — |
| Spanish | Habilidad Bombardeo: activa un ataque de fuego rápido en un área un poco mayor. Mejora a 3 cañones para lanzar disparos muy rápidos. | — |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Habilidad Bombardeo: activa un ataque de fuego rápido en un área un poco mayor. Se mejora a 3 cañones para lanzar disparos muy rápidos. | — |
| Finnish | Tehopommitus-kyky: Ampuu pikatulitusta hieman tavallista laajemmalla alueella. Päivittyy kolmipiippuiseksi huippunopeita hyökkäyksiä varten. | — |
| French | Aptitude Bombardement : déclenche une attaque à feu nourri sur une zone légèrement plus étendue. Est améliorée à 3 canons pour effectuer des attaques extrêmement rapides. | — |
| Italian | Abilità Bombardamento: scatena un attacco di fuoco rapido su un'area un po' più ampia. Passa a 3 canne per attacchi incredibilmente veloci. | — |
| Japanese | 爆撃アビリティ：やや広めのエリアに速射攻撃を行う。銃身が3個にアップグレードされ、攻撃が大幅に速くなる。 | — |
| Korean | 포격 능력: 약간 더 넓은 범위에 연사 공격을 퍼붓습니다. 3개의 총열로 업그레이드되어 엄청나게 빠른 속도로 공격합니다. | — |
| Dutch | Bombardement-vaardigheid: ontketent een snelvuuraanval in een iets groter gebied. Krijgt 3 lopen voor ongelooflijk snelle aanvallen. | — |
| Norwegian | Bombardement-evnen: Slipper løs en rask skuddveksling i et litt bredere område. Oppgraderes til 3 tønner for utrolig raske angrep. | — |
| Polish | Umiejętność Bombardowanie: Uruchamia szybki ostrzał na nieznacznie zwiększonym obszarze. Można ulepszyć do 3 luf, co umożliwia niebywale szybki ostrzał. | — |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Habilidade Bombardeio: libera um ataque de disparo rápido em uma área um pouco maior. O ataque principal é melhorado para três canos, para ataques de velocidade incrível. | — |
| Russian | Способность «Бомбардировка»: проводит скорострельную атаку по чуть большей площади. Улучшается до 3 стволов для невероятно быстрых атак. | — |
| Swedish | Bombardemangförmåga: Avlossar en snabb eldattack i ett något större område. Uppgraderas till 3 eldrör för otroligt snabba attacker. | — |
| Thai | สกิลกระหน่ำยิง: จู่โจมด้วยการยิงอย่างรวดเร็วเป็นพื้นที่กว้างขึ้นเล็กน้อย อัปเกรดเป็น 3 กระบอกปืนเพื่อความเร็วโจมตีอันเหลือเชื่อ | — |
| Turkish | Bombardıman Yeteneği: Biraz daha geniş bir alanda seri atış saldırısı gönderir. İnanılmaz hızlı saldırılar için 3 namluya yükselir. | — |
| Chinese (simplified) | 炮轰技能：对较大范围内的目标发动快速炮击。炮台可升级至3个炮筒，从而大幅加快攻击速度。 | — |
| Chinese (traditional) | 砲擊技能：在較大範圍內發動快速砲擊。升級為3個砲管，以超乎想像的速度攻擊。 | — |
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