Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24229789-20131215010848

I studied the video posted on youbute by iGameHelper123. In that video, the submitter drops off tacks frequently to deal with bloons that make it around to the right, gets in game cash about round 45 / 55.

My strategy - that finally worked – is below. I tried several that failed. For example, put down buccaneers so there is corner coverage, upgrade 3/2. Ring the water w/ bomb towers, plant som super monkeys. I also tried subs a while back. Also tried buccaneers towards the lower half, dart monkeys upgraded 2/4 along the upper, bomb towers at 3/2 left, and monkey village at 2/2 (getting 3/2 is HARD). Without using in game cash conversion, most likely one of them would have worked. I couldn’t get past lvl 60 / 66 most of the time, somehow made it to 70 once.

Strategy

Upgrades: Wait until you get the ‘dart training facility’ to level 4. I suppose other options exist. Other upgrades I had when I made the screen shot include ‘popping power’ at 5, ‘attack squad’ at 7, ‘big bloon sabotage’ at 6.

Following the picture (not 100%, going from memory!!!)

 -            Drop the buccaneer first. Use free dart monkeys, upgrade 0/1, across the top as they appear. About round 30, upgrade a few of your dart monkeys to 2/3. About 50, get them all at 4/2 or 2/4 (even). My buccaneer is placed to far into the water; on the youtube video, his is right next to the bloon track. This puts it easily within the monkey village you put down later.

 -            Drop the cannon once the buccaneer is 3/1, begin upgrades.

 -            About round 40, buy the heli pilot, upgrade 3/0 as soon as you can.

 -            About round 45, trade in $1,000 earned dollars for in game cash ($20,000), upgrade the heli pilot to 4/2.

 -            With the extra cash, buy the tower, the super monkey.

<span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> -            Upgrade the super monkey to 2/2 as soon as you can. Then monkey village to 2/2.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> -            Upgrade the super monkey to 2/4.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> -            Put down two more bomb towers on the islands, upgrade to 3/2.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> -            Put down a second heli pilot. Upgrade 2/0 as soon as possible.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> -            Put down the second super monkey, upgrade 2/4, intermixed with upgrading the bomb towers to 4/2, and the heli pilot.

<p class="MsoNormal">This method prevents you from needing to drop off spikes, and provides you with ample coverage across the top. You will notice from the screen shot that I did loose bloons along the way – that game from not being ready for the cammo runs, and not having quite enough coverage for the cammo / ceramic trains that come through at higher levels. The strategy above depends on the heli pilots being able to follow bloons around the challenger deep; if you can’t get the sequencing right, most likely you will have the same thing happen. <ac_metadata title="My solution to Challenger Deep, Hard, Bloons TD5" related_topics="Challenger Deep"> </ac_metadata>