Special Poperations (BTDB2)

BTD6

BTDB2

“	Adds another ability which deploys a powerful special Monkey Marine with machine gun. The crates are worth more cash and trigger all other crate drop abilities not on cooldown.	”
	~ BTDB2 description

Special Poperations

Special Poperations is the fifth and final upgrade of Path 2 for the Heli Pilot in Bloons TD Battles 2. In addition to the Supply Crate and Redeploy abilities, it gains the Marine ability. Unlike its BTD6 counterpart, each crate gives $8000 and 15 lives; this is double cash generation compared to its previous upgrade but without any extra lives.

It costs $30,000 and is unlocked with the other Heli Pilot tier 5 upgrades for 1500.

Appearance

TBA

Abilities

The Special Poperations has three different abilities available. One of these abilities gives $8000 cash and 15 lives, while the other ability can reposition most types of towers to a different location.

Supply Crate Ability

Special Poperations's Crate Ability spawns a single crate on a 60 second cooldown with an initial cooldown of 15 seconds.

The crate will give $8,000 and 15 lives. Lives can go above maximum and there appears to be no upper limit. [insert payoff stuff like the Poperations article]

Redeploy Ability

Special Poperation's Redeploy Ability allows the Poperations to pick up almost any tower and reposition them to another location. Cooldown of 60 (?) seconds.

Marine Ability

Poperations's Marine Ability allows the Poperations to drop a sub-tower (Marine) in a selected spot.

Strategy

Summary

Special Poperations is an improved Support Chinook that also has an offensive Marine ability that adds a decent chunk of DPS.

Tips

• Choose 0-5-2 crosspath to increase blowback and also, most importantly, boost attack speed of Marine. Autonomous movement of the placed Marine via 2-5-0 isn't very useful, as it doesn't gain any other benefits from that crosspath.

Version History

Initial release (compared to BTD6 Version 28.0)

• Special Poperations crate ability decreased (90s → 60s)
• Special Poperations initial cooldown reduced (100% → 25%; 90s → 15s)
• Special Poperations crate ability cash per crate increased ($4500 → $8000)
• Special Poperations crate ability lives per crate decreased (25 → 15)
• Support Chinook crate ability changed to produce a single crate with both extra cash and lives, instead of two separate simultaneously dropped crates of cash and lives.
• Special Poperations' crate ability initial cooldown now follows the cooldown of the previous ability instead of defaulting at this ability's initial cooldown

1.1.0

• XP 40k → 20k

1.5.0

• No longer requires 20,000 XP to unlock. Players who have unlocked this upgrade before the update will not receive a full refund, as well as unlock all Tier 5 Heli Pilot upgrades.

1.7.0

• Gains Camo Prioritization.

2.2.0

• Special Poperations Crate Ability now triggers all other active Supply Drop Crate Abilities on screen
• [undocumented] Special Poperation's Crate Ability now undergoes the normal initial cooldown regardless of status of ability cooldown from the prior upgrade

4.2

• 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. [...]	”
	~ Ninja Kiwi

Gallery

Lots of Marines

Enough XP to unlock (pre-1.5.0)

Unlocked Special Poperations

Official artwork

Upgrade portrait

Upgrade icon

Trivia

• Until an unkonwn update, previously had used description "Deploys a powerful special marine monkey with machine gun."