Talk:Artillery Battery (Tat1101's Conception)/@comment-5023233-20170309134247

So... At a cost of 750 on Medium it's 100 more than the Bomb Tower's 650... Taking 4 seconds between shots at 0/0 (1 second firing and 3 reloading) it fires 0.25 shots per second... Between 1/2 and 1/3rd of the Bomb Tower's 0.65 shots per second... The Bomb Tower has limitless turn-speed but 750 pixels sounds like quite a lot... So far at 0/0 the Bomb Tower is at an advantage in most areas...

The Decreased Reload Time puts it down to ~0.4 shots per second which is definitely closer, with the 2 damage it has a higher damage per shot than the Bomb Tower at 0/0 (1/0 or 0/1 too, the most you can really afford with the 1000 that the 0/1 Artillery Battery costs)...

x/4 is... Strange... Paying enough for a 6dps machinegun that with the same amount you could get a 2/3 Artillery Battery and a couple of road spike piles. As for aforementioned 2/3... Seems pretty decent, akin to a Moab Mauler albeit better for Ceramics.

2/2 is quite good as it lacks any reliance on an x/3 Monkey Village unlike Bomb Towers (especially with the cluster bomb path). So that's nice...

3/0... It's nice that you surpass even the 2/0 Bomb Tower in terms of firing rate but at that point you can get a 2nd 2/0 Bomb Tower for only 70 cash more...

Maybe I'm looking too early-game here. Maybe it's meant for late-game when you have the screen filled anyway.

At x/3 you've got near a Moab Mauler... What replaces the 753 damage Moab Assassin? A 6DPS machinegun... Against blimps, MOAB Assassin has almost 3* the DPS.

3/2 on the Artillery Battery competes fairly well against the 3/2 Bomb Tower. Trading the sheer radius for camo detection, better damage, a better firing rate and black/zebra popping.

4/2 against a 4/2 Bomb Tower... The Artillery Battery gets an ability with a cooldown where in the same amount of time you could use a single Moab Assassin's ability 4 times (enough to cause some hefty damage to a ZOMG). What do you get for this cooldown? 90 Damage... Enough to probably burn through a ceramic rush... Maybe...

In short, a decent concept but it's just not very useful compared to its competition. Albeit it has advantages such as range, the price is typically higher than those of the Bomb Tower.