MOAB Madness (Special Mission)/Strategies


 * Strategy 1: Start with a Village (to lower the pricetag for towers) followed by 9 Apprentices. They must be placed VERY close together to fit. Upgrade each one 3 times on the second path. You will not have sufficient cash to do so but once the MOABs start coming in and the cash starts rolling, keep upgrading your Apprentices! (Not to a Monkey Master though). When you have finished upgrading them, start upgrading your village.
 * Strategy 2: Build 2 Robo-monkeys at the start, and having around 4 at the end. Road spikes are essential for this strategy.
 * Strategy 3: Put a monkey village in the middle of the stage, and the put technolagy terror. Do what ever you want with the remaining money
 * Strategy 4: Put a monkey village just above the very centre and give it 1/1 upgrades, then add two super monkeys in the centre, one with robo-monkey and plasma vision upgrades, and one with robo-monkey and laser vision upgrades. During the round, give the latter plasma vision, then add a third and give it up to robo-monkey, ignoring the vision upgrades.
 * Variation: Add a super monkey near the small bump on the far right. Give it 1/0, then 1/1, then 1/2, then 2/2. You'll win before you can upgrade it to sun god. This worked for me when 1,2, and 3 didn't work.
 * Strategy 5: Place 4 Boomerang Throwers (fully upgraded to Glaive Lords) in the first bend, so they have the track next to them on three sides. One or two bloons may leak, but only a few and they'll be blues at worst.
 * Strategy 6: Place a spectre in the middle and spam moab maulers. Most of the bloons won't even get past the 4th line.
 * Stategy 7: Place unupgraded monkey aces all over the screen, don't change the path. This tactic only requires rank 12 and it also unlocks a lot of the upgrades for the monkey ace!
 * Strategy 8: Use all of your money on 2/3 dart storms, place them around the middle, changing the path isn't necessary
 * Strategy 9: First, put a 2-1 village in the center. Then get a 0-4 Technological Terror next to it, and put down as many spikes as you can afford. Use the Bloon Annihilation Ability when the M.O.A.B.s surround the Technological Terror. During the round, put as many Road Spikes as you can afford. You should have no leaks.
 * Strategy 10: Get 3 glue gunners upgraded to bloon liquidifier. then put moab maulers near the start of the track( as many as possible) Than as you go get more and more moab maulers.
 * Strategy 11: Start with a sun god above the first bend so it can also hit one of the middle bends. Then put a plasma vision monkey at the very start so it will also hit the end part. Then get an MOAB mauler near that plasma monkey. Use the rest of your money for road spikes at the end and keep piling up spikes during the round.
 * Strategy 12: First put a monkey village in the middle of the map, then put a super monkey near the village and upgrade it to monkey god. get another super monkey and upgrade it to plasma vision and bionic super monkey if possible if not, wait until you get enough money from destroying M.O.A.Bs. Add the range upgrades if needed.
 * Strategy 13: First put a 0/3 MOAB mauler in the first "U turn". Next put a 3/0 super monkey on top of that U turn. Then at the very start of the track put a 2/0 super monkey so it can hit the end of the track too. If you want, you can put endless road spikes around the track, even though you don't need too
 * Strategy 14 by Eviltom(it still works): First put 2 super monkeys on the spot as shown below in Step 1. Next get a Monkey Village and place it on the spot as shown below in Step 2 . Upgrade the 1st Super Monkey to 3/2 ( Sun God) and the 2nd one to 2/2 ( Plasma Monkey), upgrade the monkey village to 2/0 too for extra speed and range as shown in Step 3, Next click the start button ( Hotkey: Spacebar). When you get enough money , get a super monkey and place it in the spot as shown in Step 4,upgrade it to 0/2. When you get enough money , Upgrade it to 1/2 ( Laser Monkey ) and 2/2 ( Plasma Monkey ) as shown in Steps 5 and 6.
 * Strategy 15 by Monkeysandbox(takes pratace): First put 3 ninja monkeys (4/2) close to the 4th road block and put a monkey ace and upgrade to 4/1 and put at circle and put 4 blades between 2nd road block and 4th road block. In the middle of round, put 2 glue gunners 3/2 in between 6 and 9 road blocks if bloons gets through put road spikes.
 * Strategy 16: Buy one Sun god and robo monkey each with any modifications in the center. Note that this strategy isn't always sucessful so it is best to upgrade as this mission goes
 * Strategy 17 ( called " Three of a kind " ) : Do the same as "Strategy 3" but the Monkey village have both paths upgraded once and place the 3/2 upgraded Spike Factory at the top-right corner, between the 2 bloons' way. Use the Bloon Annihilation Ability when a MOAB reaches 70% of the track ( or when a Ceramic Bloon reaches the final tunnel ). You lose between 0-90 lives, based on your luck.
 * Strategy 18 (You only need to spend ~$31,570): Place two glue monkeys (3,2) immediately after the first U-turn and target them to first. Place 7 MOAB maulers (0,3) in the beginning, the four nearer to the entrance targeted on strong and the three farther down the track (no farther than the U-turn) targeted on first. No additional monkeys need to be bought... as long as the placement isn't screwed up. No bloon should go past the halfway mark.
 * Note: You can place more than 7 MOAB maulers if you want - it'll be a lot safer, and if you splurge, no bloon should make it to the bend after the first tunnel.

Notes on strategies: (regarding updates)

 * Strategy 1: The strategy worked before the Monkey Apprentices were updated. However, it does not seem to work anymore.
 * Strategy 2: You can't afford 6 robo-monkeys with $50 000. An alternate strategy that works is just to start with 1 village and 2 robo-monkeys. One robo-monkey needs to have its target priority changed to Strong then back to First after a while.
 * Strategy 3: Fan clubs have been nerfed and no longer fire triple darters.
 * "Strategy" 5: Premiums work well anytime in any BTD5 game.

Video Strategies

 * BTD5 MOAB Madness Minimal Towers Used, No Lives Lost - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzN3DElXtVo&list=PL7EC845C2B0BB3713&index=1&feature=plpp_video


 * BTD5 MOAB Madness One Tower Type Challenge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2aHkR4lDs&list=PL7EC845C2B0BB3713&index=2&feature=plpp_video
 * BTD5 MOAB Madness Five Epic Victories NO MONKEY VILLAGES! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddOScsQSlb0&list=PL7EC845C2B0BB3713&index=3&feature=plpp_video
 * BTD5 MOAB Madness THE EASIEST WAY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDazSclscDM&list=PL7EC845C2B0BB3713&index=4&feature=plpp_video