Comanche Defense (BTDB2)

BTDB2

“	Automatically calls in mini Comanches when they're most needed.	”
	^{~ BTDB2 description}

Comanche Defense is the fourth upgrade of Path 3 for the Heli Pilot in Bloons TD Battles 2. It is similar to its BTD6 counterpart, but has no main missile. Also, mini-Comanches have normal type damage, rather than sharp and explosion, following a buff in Version 1.0.6.

Comanche Defense upgrades its weapons shoot darts that deal 2 damage, but still no main missile. In addition, Comanche Defense is able to summon up to three mini-Comanches that move in depending on how far bloons reach in terms of bloon track progress, split among 25% thresholds.

Each mini-Comanche shoots darts and missiles with higher overall stats to the main Comanche and they follow Pursuit targeting. After 15 seconds of being summoned, mini-Comanches may leave unless another bloon threshold is met, in which the duration resets. There is a cooldown of 25 seconds before the mini-Comanches can become summoned again, unless reset by bloons reaching a certain threshold.

The Heli Pilot itself receives only a bonus damage to darts; these darts deal 2 damage and pierce up to 3 bloons each. The mini-Comanches come with fast-shooting three-spray darts and a missile per mini-Comanche with 100 pierce each that deal +2 damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class and a 25 blast radius. Darts from mini-Comanches pierce up to 4 bloons per dart and shot every 0.15s. Mini-Comanche missiles are shot every 2s.

It costs $7,500, and is unlocked with purchase of Heli Pilot.

Strategy[]

Summary[]

Comanche Defense is a not-so expensive way to defend against a large but slow rush. It mainly has uses in the R17-21 round range.

Tips[]

1-0-4 is recommended to maximize dart amounts, with 0-2-4 only having superiority if needing to specifically deal with Camo rushes other than DDTs.

Version History[]

Initial release (compared to BTD6 Version 28.0)

No longer has main helicopter missiles
- This is a nerf in this game since stalling strategies are diminished in value

1.0.6

Mini Comanches gain Normal damage type

1.1.1

Comanche Defense main dart damage increased (1 → 2)
Comanche Defense mini Comanche pierce increased (3 → 4)

1.5.0

No longer require 12,500 XP to unlock.

3.2

Comanche Defense mini-Comanche missile attack rate increased (3s → 2s)

“	Comanche Defense and Comanche Commander are the least used tier 4 and 5 Heli Pilot upgrades respectively, plus Heli Pilot in general is not particularly known for being great at pure damage but plays a more supportive role with its abilities. Therefore, we felt like the Comanche upgrades were in need of a buff to be more on par with the top path.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

3.2.4

Affected by MOAB Shove slowdown reduction to ZOMGs nerf

4.0

xx4 Comanche Defense: Missile blast radius 18 → 25

“	The mini comanche’s missiles have incredibly high pierce (100) but it would very rarely make use of it all due to such a small blast radius. This minor change should help it out a little bit, not increasing its DPS potential but allowing it to perform slightly better in a lot of scenarios.	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

4.2

Price decreased ($8,500 → $7,500)
Affected by base Heli pad footprint reduction

“	Heli Pilot’s large footprint has been a major limitation on the tower’s viability on a lot of maps, so we hope to open up its viability by reducing its size. [...] Comanche Defense has never been a popular choice so we think it’s fair to make it slightly more affordable [,,,]	”
	^{~ Ninja Kiwi}

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Trivia[]

Comanche Defense also doesn't have missiles on the base helicopter.