Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-7150475-20140317155339/@comment-172.56.11.49-20140830154138

I rarely use MOAB Maulers, if at all.

The problem is just that although they're extremely helpful when you've either got the perfect map and/or late-round MOABs, they're not even remotely affordable on harder BMC tiles. Depending on the map, it usually takes 2 MOAB Maulers to take down 1 MOAB before it passed your tower's range, and 3 or 4 MOAB Maulers if you actually need to take out spaced MOABs without letting the trailing MOAB leak past. When you start getting MOABs at round 10'ish or earlier, or an unlucky map, there's no god forsaken way you can afford 3 or 4 MOAB Maulers plus have a decent defense to take out the zebras inside the MOAB's ceramics (since MOAB Maulers do jack to them).

If you're planning for the future - get Spike Factory's MOAB-Shredder ASAP, and look for places on each map where your spike factories can be placed where the spikes will be in range of MOAB-class bloons but NOT in range of regular bloons, and the instant you pay that $3,000 in-game for the upgrade, you can breathe a HUGE sigh of relief as MOABs are no longer a problem (up to ZOMGs, then you'll want more).