Artillery Battery

For the upgrade in BTD4, see Mortar Battery. "Pop And Awe Ability: bombards the screen for 5 seconds, popping every bloon 1 time per second, and immobilizes all bloons during that time. Does not affect MOAB-class bloons."

- Bloons TD 5 Description

 is the final upgrade of the Path 2 for the Mortar Tower. It costs $7650 on Easy, $9000 on Medium, $9720 Hard, $10800 on Impoppable. It allows the Mortar Tower to shoots mortar shells three times as fast as well as giving it the Pop and Awe Ability. The Artillery Battery looks like three Mortar Towers combined together with a monkey controlling it. 

Pop and Awe Ability
The Pop and Awe Ability allows the Mortar Tower to bombard the screen for 5 seconds with mortar shells, immobilizing and popping all non M.O.A.B. Class Bloons. It will also immobilize but not do any damage to M.O.A.B. Class Bloons. All M.O.A.B.s and non M.O.A.B. Class Bloons will be immobilized for 5 seconds, B.F.Bs will be immobilized for 2.5 seconds and Z.O.M.Gs are immobilized for half a second.

In Bloons Tower Defense 5 Mobile, Bloons TD Battles Mobile (before the 3.2 update), Bloons Monkey City Mobile, the ability will not immobilize M.O.A.B. Class Bloons. In BTDBM, it now stuns MOAB Class Bloons on the 3.2 update.

In Bloons Monkey City, the ability can immobilize DDTs for 5 seconds like M.O.A.B.s.



Trivia
2/4 Artillery Batteries can work in conjunction with Glue Gunners (2+/x) and Ice Monkeys (3/x) to make it so bloons cannot escape and are popped rapidly due to Snap Freeze, Corrosive Glue and Burny Stuff.

Despite the description saying it does not affect M.O.A.B. Class Bloons, it can still immobilize M.O.A.B. Class Bloons.
 * Even though it is less expensive, it is a lot more cost-effective than The Big One, due to the fact it fires as fast as a Semi-Automatic Rifle.
 * With the Tier 3 Mortar Emplacement this tower can stun near-infinity bloons.
 * Due to its fast firing speed combined with signal flare (bigger blasts in conjunction with this is a must), the artillery battery is arguably the second best upgrade (the first being Radar Scanner) for camo detection because even pinks have a hard time getting through without getting hit, especially if its targeting is positioned well.
 * In the mobile version of Bloons TD Battles and Bloons Monkey City, the ability does not work on M.O.A.B. Class Bloons.