Covert Pops (Special Mission)



Covert Pops is a Special Mission in Bloons Tower Defense 5 added as a new update on the 12th of April 2012. You begin with $1000 and play on Snake River Hard, Meerkat Spies are disabled. The reward for completing this mission is $350 Monkey Money.

Mission Info


Description: ''The Bloons are invading Snake River with their most deadly stealth forces! They must have known the Meerkats were on leave! Pass 50 rounds with a twist: All bloons are Camo and only 1 life!''

As the name and description implies, you have only 1 life and all the bloons coming at you are camo. Additionally, rounds initially having Camo Bloons will have Camo Regrowth Bloons instead. However, this is incorrect because the MOAB-Class Bloons cannot be camo in this game.

Strategies

 * Signal Flares and Cleansing Foams are really helpful because they remove the threat of Camo Bloons.
 * As all the bloons (excluding MOAB-class ones) spawn as camo, your top priority in the early rounds needs to be camo detection. Ninja Monkeys, Dartling Guns, a Spike Factory and Signal Flare Mortar Towers can help in the early rounds, and MOAB Maulers/Assassins in the later ones.

Trivia

 * Covert means "hidden".
 * It is advised to prepare some extra cash for Road Spikes on round 33 as 20 Camo Regen Rainbow Bloons will come your way!
 * Since Lead Bloons appear on round 28, round 59 wouldn't be a shocker!
 * Right after the update, after playing this and start a regular game, all the bloons are camo! However this was fixed.
 * This is the first mission/challenge on Snake River.
 * You can make this Special Missions much easier by buying the life injection or by having Healthy Bananas turned on.
 * Rounds normally having regrowth bloons will have camo regrowth bloons
 * As per normal, MOAB-Class Bloons and the bloons which spawn from them will neither be camo nor regen.
 * That means that MOAB Maulers are helpful, even without a Radar Scanner.
 * If you purchase the Triple Lives premium upgrade, you'll have 3 lives instead of 1.
 * Beware of round 33. There are Camo Regenerating Rainbow Bloons instead of Yellow Bloons.


 * This mission gets easier if the player has a Tier 3 Monkey Buccaneer specialty or a Tier 3 Super Monkey specialty. Radar Scanner also helps.
 * This special mission's name is possibly derived from the phrase "Covert Ops", or possibly from the Kellogg's breakfast cereal "Cocoa Pops".
 * Spike Factories are incredibly useful in this Special Mission.