Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26529912-20160909005031

Have you guys noticed this before? There's a really unique trick you can do with Heli Pilots and Monkey Subs!!

When you upgrade a sub to at least 2/0, the Advanced Intel upgrade allows the sub to fire darts in other towers' ranges. Dedicated sub users know how to easily manipulate this upgrade to their advantage.

However, do they know there's a feature with the Heli that is really useful??...

I've played a while on BTD 5, and noticed how the Heli Pilot's helicopter (the copter itself) has its own attack radius. Therefore, the Heli Pilot functions like a tower that can be placed anywhere and basically becomes a Triple Dart Monkey (except fires 2 darts, 4 when upgraded to 1/0). How does this relate to the sub? A 2/0 sub and a 0/0 Heli can allow the sub to fire anwhere in the heli's range!!! It's SUPER convenient for taking down bloons!

Ways to Use This Trick:

Using the Follow Touch Mode, Helis can easily be used to allow subs to fire where it is tapped to or dragged to. This is good for letting 2/4 subs maul bloons anywhere the player wants.

In the Lock Place Mode, the Heli becomes stationary, popping bloons that come near. The best way to utilize this is to get the 3rd upgrade on a path to allow crowd control, and 2/0 subs to do that even more. Razor Rotors cut through tough bloons, even frozen and lead, and is useful for cutting down regens, and subs can easily take advantage of that. Downdraft will blow away bloons encountered, and any escaping bloons will be popped to lower tiers via subs.

When using Patrol Mode (the hardest-to-use mode imo), the Heli will patrol a certain area back and forth. The 2/0 subs will fire at bloons in the patrolling Heli's range, but may struggle to attack fast bloons and cut them down enough. When there are straight lines of bloons, the Heli will allow the sub to pop bloons more easily.

In Pursuit Mode (the most useful mode imo), Helis will track the first bloon deployed, continuously firing darts at it to pop it to oblivion, and when paired with a 2/0 (minimum) sub, extra firepower is added, allowing other bloons that pass the Heli to be popped down in size, based on target setting.

When your Heli is upgraded to detect camo, the sub will be able to fire at camos as well, and when being flooded with camos, a 3/2 Heli (a 2/3 heli works as well) paired with a 2/1 Sub (minimum, though recommended 2/2) can easily counter camos.

Though Helis cannot pop lead until upgraded to 3-, a cheaper way to execute this (imo) is to use a -3 (minimum) sub to pop the lead, as well as deal extra damage to ceramics (awesome bonus!).

On maps with water near the bloon spawn, a Bloontonium Sub can provide extra benefits to Downdraft Helis. When Helis blow bloons away, if they are near a submerged 4/2 sub, those bloons will loose camo and be popped at a decent rate automatically in really close range. Adding more 4/2 subs enhance the popping power and rate. If you decide to max your 2/3 Helis to 2/4, use the abilities to obtain cash and lives based on whether you're trying climb back to 150 lives or building economy. Sometimes it's good for moving misplaced towers to a more useful location (i.e., when your Disciple of Air is in your frontline but you want it to be your backdoor blockade).

The opposite strategy can be used where no water at the beginning is necessary. When you obtain a 4/2 Apache Dartship and a 2/4 First Strike Capability (very hard to pull off!), a Dartship set to Pursuit will go all hellfire towards bloons, with its missiles at dartling minigun, plus a super-powered lead-and-ceramic-popping MOAB-class destroyer, you have basically infinite power. The fire power is so overwhelming even a spamming opponent will struggle to rush you and make you lose a single life. It is recommended that you are good at maintaining economy to use this strategy, for expensive upgrades can be a massive economical downfall if not managed properly, so spend wisely!

That's it! Hopefully this trick is handy and becomes a highlighted one in the future!  