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Dons Strategy for Bloon Circles - Medium, Sliver Medal - 3 pics below!

There are three pictures below – two during, and one at the end. Following this strategy will get you safely to a Silver medal and provide the basis to easily reach 85-87. I haven’t gotten much far past 85 on Medium.

 1. Build up and enable the “dart training facility”. That extra dart monkey comes in handy! I tried this using Boomerang throwers w/ the corresponding building fully upgraded – didn’t have much luck.

 2. Put down a ninja in the middle of the left moon patch.

 3. Put down your first dart monkey where the track joins together on the lower right.

 4. Evenly build, add more dart monkeys and two bomb towers. The towers go just inside on the upper left, the dart monkeys to right behind the two outer circles, and one just where the circle leads off the map.

 5. Put a tack shooter inside the upper left circle. Then a monkey apprentice.

 6. Once you have enough units placed – and upgraded – put down two banana factories. You should have monkeys up to 2/2, your ninja at 2/1, and your monkey apprentice at 1 / 2.

 7. Begin a slow balanced upgrade process – goal is to make sure you can deal with the cammo train coming in the late 20’s, mid 30’s and you have banana farms at 2/0 (or 3/0!) by about 35 (picture one, below)

 8. The next 20 levels will focus on getting a monkey village put down inside the parallelogram (sorry for the flashback!) so it can enhance your forward facing units on the crescent, augment one of the tack throwers in the lower left or upper right circle (it can’t do both … ), and four bomb towers at 3/3.

 9. Towards 50, start putting down two snipers. Your goal is to get them to 3/0 by round 31. (picture two, below)

 10. The third leg – mid 50 to 63 – should focus on two super monkeys and apprentices that can deal with the fast moving ceramic balloon train that arrives – in force – at level 63. Final layout below, third pic, after winning.

When I was building out this strategy I made a few mistakes. First – you need enough monkey apprentices at 3/3 to effectively use the static (3/0) and to see/defeat the cammo trains (0/2 – the hat). In the pictures used for this article, I had to hurry up quick and place them during round 63 – and I did not place them optimally. You can just get five monkeys on the upper left crescent. If you upgrade your super monkeys to 2/2, they can adequately cover most of the paths. Make sure to set most of your units to ‘strong’ (not all) that are forward facing, and units that are towards the rear to ‘close’.

Upgrade all five of the dart monkeys on the map to 3 / 4 by round 50; it is easy to concentrate on the action on the left, and miss a ceramic or a few dozen that make it through. I tended to loose at round 46 or 63 consistently, as I was building up this strategy.

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