Apache Dartship is the Heli Pilot's path 1 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Heli Pilot two new attacks, a machine gun and a missile launcher, and enhances its existing attacks. Additionally its flight speed increases by 25%.
The machine gun fires darts which deal 1 damage, have 7 pierce, and have an attack cooldown of 0.05 seconds. These darts cannot damage Lead or Frozen Bloons. The missile launcher fires 4 homing rockets per shot which deal 2 damage, have 40 pierce, and have an attack cooldown of 1 second. These rockets cannot damage Black Bloons. The missile launcher has a range of 84 units, twice that of Heli Pilot's other attacks.
This upgrade reduces the attack cooldown of Heli Pilot's quad darts by 25%, for an attack speed increase of ~33.33%. This upgrade enhances the razor rotors, increasing their damage from 2 to 4 and their pierce from 10 to 20.
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
Tiers
Total cost
Sell value
Easy
Medium
Hard
Impoppable
Easy
Medium
Hard
Impoppable
4-0-0
$20,610
$24,250
$26,195
$29,100
$14,427
$16,975
$18,337
$20,370
4-1-0
$20,865
$24,550
$26,520
$29,460
$14,606
$17,185
$18,564
$20,622
4-2-0
$21,375
$25,150
$27,170
$30,180
$14,963
$17,605
$19,019
$21,126
4-0-1
$20,820
$24,500
$26,465
$29,400
$14,574
$17,150
$18,526
$20,580
4-0-2
$21,115
$24,850
$26,845
$29,820
$14,781
$17,395
$18,792
$20,874
Strategy
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Apache Dartship is an expensive T4 that has mediocre stats for its cost, but handily takes down most mid-game rounds with ease if the map has only one active entrance per round. Its rockets are prone to chasing due to slow projectile speed, and its machine gun has low pierce and damage, though its rotor decently handles dense groups of non-Regrow bloons if given enough time. Apache Dartship mostly stands out in CT Least Tiers, where it is an easy-to-use T4 for completing all rounds if beating the previous rounds with a buffed Razor Rotors.
In CHIMPS, Apache Dartship is only used as a stepping stone to Apache Prime, its T5. It pairs well with Rosalia, as she greatly discounts it and the T5.
Like the other top-path Helis, Apache Dartship prefers bottom crosspath's 4-0-2 for optimized DPS; the innate camo detection is only necessary for challenges and external camo detection is obtained elsewhere, and Bigger Jets's faster flight speed is too small to matter on multi-lane maps.
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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
Apache Dartship has also fallen off over time as a viable saveup for prime, though it is meant to be reasonably difficult some changes have made this a little more difficult than it probably should be so we have increased the pierce of the machinegun attack. — Update notes
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Previously Razor Rotor’s used to make the heli pursue for a further distance & this caused it to often fail to reach Lead Bloons with the rotor attack that could pop them. This overall seemed like a design flaw so that back-off distance has been moved up to the T4 instead. Apache Dartship has also fallen off over time as a viable saveup for prime, though it is meant to be reasonably difficult some changes have made this a little more difficult than it probably should be so we have increased the pierce of the machinegun attack. — Update notes
Heli’s Razor Rotors don’t scale with higher tiers so improvements have been made specifically to that attack for Dartship & Apache Prime. — Update notes
Pursuit will now interact with Patrol Points in a limited ‘pursuit between points’, with this now you will be able to make your pursuit heli stay on one side on multi-path maps without getting stuck in the middle. Razor Rotors is fairly good now, but it could still justify a little more power given the weaknesses of the expensive upgrades that it builds into. — Update notes
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Pursuit upgrades the Patrol Points flight pattern to a ‘Pursue Between Points’
Among technical players we’ve received feedback that the massive range of the Heli’s missiles causes problems with controlling what heli’s choose to attack & when so we’ve reduced the range of these missiles to a more reasonable number, this is still double the range of the Heli so the missiles will continue to fire first before other attacks but not quite from so far away. — Update notes
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Missile: targeting range reduced ― 173 → 84
Note: Reducing targeting range of missile will reduce opportunities to waste projectile lifespan on chasing Bloons.
We’re raising move speed for Apache Dartship up to match Prime to improve skillful use in some more difficult situations mainly assisting on spread path maps — Update notes
Upgrade cost reduced ― $20,000 → $15,000
Upgrade cost increased ― $19,500 → $19,600
Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions
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