Soldier Monkey (BTD:YHGTBKM)

The Soldier Monkey is a tower that debuts in several fan made games. But this instance of the Soldier Monkey debuts in Bloons Tower Defense: You Have Got To Be Kidding Me and focuses on raw damage over a large radius with a variety of tools to aid itself in popping bloons.

For Comparison

 * This tower assumes that a 0/0/0 dart monkey has a 32 unit or 200 pixel range and attacks every 57 frames.
 * >>> Indicates change.
 * This tower assumes that a Super Monkey can attack once every 4 frames.

Use
+ Good popping power.

+ Good mid game utility.

+ Fast, consistent power.

+ Can pop all bloon types with most upgrades.

- Black and Zebra bloons can reduce the effectiveness of the tower’s upgrades.

- Camo bloons.

- Requires a straight path to achieve its maximum potential.

- Lacks conventional targeting options.

About
Attacks with a fast firing dart rifle that pops 1 layer of 3 bloons every 20 frames in a 40 unit radius. Cannot detect camo, pop frozen bloons, or pop lead bloons. Additionally, the Soldier Monkey lacks the traditional first, last, strong, and close targeting options in order to allow for control over drones that the Soldier Monkey has if Scout Drone is purchased.

Base Stats; In-Game Cost: $1400
 * Tower Footprint: Medium.
 * Range: 40 units.
 * Attack Speed: Once every 20 frames.
 * Popping Power: 3.
 * Layers Popped: 1.
 * Cannot detect camo bloons.
 * Cannot pop frozen or lead bloons.

Description: The backbone of any monkey defense force, the Soldier Monkey attacks with a fast firing high pierce dart rifle and comes with a variety of upgrades to improve its utility.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey looks similar to a dart monkey. However, it has a dark green round helmet and wears a dark green uniform with a shirt, pants, and black buttons all similar to the one that Striker Jones is wearing. The Soldier Monkey’s weapon has the appearance of a black assault rifle similar to the Sniper Monkey’s rifle except with an iron sight on the top of the barrel. When the Soldier Monkey attacks, the darts fire too fast to see but they leave light grey streaks for a brief moment.

Tier 1
Name: Rapid Fire

Effects; In-game Cost: $450
 * Attack Speed: Once every 20 frames >>> Once every 17 frames.

Description: Fires 30% faster.

Appearance: The stock, ammunition, and rims of the rifle are now dark grey instead of black. Furthermore, the barrel is 10% larger.

Tier 2
Name: Ammo Carrier

Effects; In-game Cost: $500
 * All Military Monkeys in range get +1 popping power.
 * Does not stack.
 * Does not apply to Drone if Scout Drone is purchased.
 * Soldier Monkey Popping Power: 3 >>> 4.

Description: All Military Monkeys in range of the Soldier Monkey get +1 popping power. Including the Soldier Monkey himself.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey is now wearing a large dark green military backpack. If Combat Drone is purchased, the backpack will be dark blue instead of dark green.

Tier 3
Name: Heavy Weapons User

Effects; In-game Cost: $1800
 * Attack Speed: Once every 17 frames >>> Once every 10 frames.
 * Popping Power: 4 >>> 10.

Description: Heavy weapons fire much higher piercing rounds as a much faster rate!

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey’s shirt, pants, and helmet are now a camouflage pattern of light grey, dark grey, and black. Additionally, the Soldier Monkey’s backpack is now black and the rifle that the Soldier Monkey is carrying has a 20% longer and wider barrel as well as a white ring around the center of the barrel.

Tier 4
Name: Heavy Weapons Specialist

Effects; In-game Cost: $5000
 * Attack Speed: Once every 10 frames >>> Once every 5 frames.
 * Popping Power: 10 >>> 15.
 * Layers Popped: 1 >>> 2.
 * Adds an independant attack;
 * Range: 40 units.
 * 48 units if Laser Scope is purchased.
 * Splash Radius: Small.
 * Attack Speed: once every 180 frames.
 * Popping Power: 25.
 * Layers Popped: 3.
 * Cannot detect camo bloons.
 * Can pop frozen, purple, and lead bloons.
 * Cannot pop black or zebra bloons.

Description: Heavy weapons specialists pop 2 layers of more bloons at a faster rate. Additionally, they fire an occasional grenade.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey is now wearing a dark grey kevlar vest over his uniform. Additionally, there is a dark grey underbarrel grenade launcher below the barrel of the rifle and the barrel is 20% larger than the main barrel.

Tier 5
Name: One Monkey Army

Effects; In-game Cost: $55000
 * All attacks pop all bloon types.
 * Grenade Explosion Radius: Small >>> Medium.
 * Grenade Popping Power: 25 >>> 30.
 * Dart Layers Popped: 2 >>> 10.
 * Grenade Layers Popped: 3 >>> 25.

Description: An absolute bloon popping machine.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey is now wearing a black suit with a solid black pants and shirt, but with dark grey boots and gloves that are black with dark grey palms. Additionally, the helmet has been replaced with a dark grey full face mask that has six green infiltration lenses in a hexagonal pattern and a black boxy laser pointer on the right side of the head with a green laser coming from it. If Search Light is purchased, the Soldier Monkey will now have the helmet light.

Tier 1
Name: Laser Scope

Effects; In-game Cost: $300.
 * Range: 40 units >>> 48 units.
 * Drone Range: 40 units >>> 48 units.
 * If Combat Drone is purchased.

Description: A highly advanced scope allows the Soldier Monkey to pop bloons that are farther away.

Appearance: The scope on the top of the rifle is now a larger cylindrical scope with a red tint on it. Additionally, there is now a single yellow chevron on the Soldier Monkey’s helmet.

Tier 2
Name: Flare Gun

Effects; In-game Cost: $600
 * Adds an independant attack;
 * Range: 48 units.
 * Attack Speed: Once every 60 frames.
 * Popping Power: 1.
 * Layers Popped: 1.
 * Cannot detect camo bloons.
 * Can pop all bloon types.
 * Bloons hit take +1 damage from all sources for 60 frames.

Description: Adds an independently firing flare gun. All bloons hit by the flare gun temporarily take damage from all other sources.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey is now holding a flare gun in his left hand. Said flare gun has a black handle and a yellow barrel. When the Soldier Monkey shoots a bloon with the flare gun, it fires a red flare at the bloon.

Tier 3
Name: Monkey Lieutenant

Effects; In-game Cost: $850
 * All, Soldier Monkeys, Mortar Monkeys, and Sniper Monkeys in this tower’s radius deal +1 damage to MOAB Class Bloons.
 * Does not apply to Drone if Scout Drone is purchased.
 * Soldier Monkey Bonus Damage To MOAB Class Bloons: +0 >>> +1.

Description: All Soldier, Sniper, and Mortar Monkeys deal +1 damage to MOAB Class Bloons under the superior guidance of the Monkey Lieutenant.

Appearance: The shirt, pants, and helmet that the Soldier Monkey is wearing are now a camouflage pattern consisting of brown, light grey, green, and dark green. Furthermore, the assault rifle now has a brown shoulder strap and the yellow chevrons are replaced with two yellow bars on the helmet.

Tier 4
Name: Bombing Run

Effects; In-game Cost: $8500
 * Unlocks Call Airstrike Ability;
 * A bomber flies from one end of the screen to the other in the direction that the Soldier Monkey is facing.
 * Range: Infinite.
 * Popping Power: Infinite.
 * Layers Popped: 500.
 * Can detect camo bloons.
 * Can pop all bloon types.
 * Cooldown: 60 seconds.

Description: Bombing Run - Call a bomber to deal massive damage to all bloons in the direction that the Soldier Monkey is facing.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey’s yellow chevrons are gone. Instead, there is a pair of black binoculars attached to the helmet with green tints on the sights. Additionally, The flare gun in the Soldier Monkey’s hand is replaced with a black walkie-talkie except for when the Soldier Monkey is firing a flare in which case the flare gun will briefly appear.

Tier 5
Name: Scorched Earth

Effects; In-game Cost: $68000
 * Call Airstrike Ability >>> Scorched Earth Ability;
 * Occurrences: 1 >>> 3.
 * Time between occurrences: 10 seconds.
 * Bombers Per Occurrence: 1 >>> 3.
 * Bombers fly parallel to each other.

Description: Nine times to bombers, nine times the destruction!

Appearance: The assault rifle is now black and there is no backpack regardless of upgrades. Additionally, the helmet that the Soldier Monkey once wore is now gone and replaced by a red bandana. Furthermore, the Soldier Monkey has two streaks of black war paint under both of his eyes. And finally, the Soldier Monkey now has a black belt that is littered with ammunition cartridges.

Tier 1
Name: Scout Drone

Effects; In-game Cost: $550
 * Adds a drone;
 * Range: 32 pixels.
 * Does not attack.
 * Cannot detect camo bloons.
 * Shares a line of sight with the Soldier Monkey.
 * Can be moved by tapping “Lock In Place” in the targeting menu and then tapping the desired location for it to be.
 * Adds “Lock In Place” in the targeting menu.
 * The scout drone does not provide +1 popping power to Military Monkeys in its radius if Ammo Carrier is purchased.
 * The scout drone does not provide +1 damage against MOAB Class Bloons to Soldier Monkeys, Mortar Monkeys, and Sniper Monkeys in its radius if Monkey Lieutenant is purchased.

Description: Gives the Soldier Monkey a scout drone that can be moved by tapping “Lock In Place” in the targeting menu. The scout drone does not attack, but it shares a line of sight with the Soldier Monkey.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey is now wearing a black belt. Additionally, there is now a black drone with a boxy body, a green sensor in the front, and four propellers shielding by hollow drums.

Tier 2
Name: Search Light

Effects; In-game Cost: $600
 * Can detect camo bloons.

Description: The additional of search lights allow the scout drone and the Soldier Monkey to detect camo bloons.

Appearance: The Drone now has a black cylindrical light attached to the belly of the scout drone. Additionally, the Soldier Monkey has a black military flashlight attached to the right side of the helmet.

Tier 3
Name: Combat Drone

Effects; In-game Cost: $2500
 * Scout Drone Range: 32 units >>> 40 units.
 * 32 units >>> 48 units if Laser Scope is purchased.
 * Adds an attack to the scout drone;
 * Attack Speed: Once every 20 frames.
 * Once every 17 frames if Rapid Fire is purchased.
 * Popping Power: 3.
 * 4 if Ammo Carrier is purchased.
 * Can detect camo bloons.
 * Won't pop frozen or lead bloons.
 * Adds an independant attack to the scout drone;
 * Range: 48 units.
 * Attack Speed: Once every 60 frames.
 * Popping Power: 1.
 * Layers Popped: 1.
 * Can detect camo bloons.
 * Can pop all bloon types.
 * Bloons hit take +1 damage from all sources for 60 frames.
 * Only added if Flare Gun is purchased.

Description: The scout drone is replaced with a combat drone that is given an attack identical to the Soldier’s Monkeys attack.

Appearance: The pants, shirt, and helmet that the Soldier Monkey wears is now a camouflage pattern consisting of blue, dark blue, grey, and light grey. Additionally, the drone now have a dark blue body and cylinders and the search light has been replaced with a black belly-mounted gun with a flashlight mounted on the right side of it. If Flare Gun is purchased, another yellow barrel will be mounted on the side of the main barrel. If Ammo Carrier is purchased, the backpack is dark blue instead of dark green.

Tier 4
Name: Mobile Defense Network

Effects; In-game Cost: $2000
 * Attacks Drones: 1 >>> 2.
 * Drones alternate between changing positions based on the location determined by “Lock In Place”.

Description: Don’t settle for one attack drone. Use two!

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey now has boxy glasses with blue frames and a light blue tint. Said glasses classes have faint targeting reticles on them. Additionally, the Soldier Monkey now has gloves that match the same color as the rest of his uniform.

Tier 5
Name: MOAB Demolition

Effects; In-game Cost: $40000
 * Adds an independant attack;
 * Range: Infinite.
 * Attack Speed: Once every 600 frames.
 * Popping Power: 1.
 * Layers Popped: 1.
 * Can detect camo bloons.
 * Can pop all bloons types.
 * Targets the strongest bloon on the screen.
 * Bloons hit take 20 damage per second for 30 seconds.

Description: Remotely summons drones to dismantle bloons over time with ruthless efficiency.

Appearance: The Soldier Monkey’s uniform is now camouflaged white, light grey, dark grey, and black. Additionally, the glasses have light grey frames and orange tint on them and the rifle is light grey and more boxy. For the combat drones, they rotaries and body now have white plating and the drones themselves have orange sensors. When either attack, their rounds leave red streaks instead of light grey streaks. When the Soldier Monkey uses a demolition drone, a black and dark red plated drone with a light grey drill on its underbelly as well as for claws is summoned and latches on to the target bloons.

Monkey Knowledge (Military)
1#

Name: Longer Flares

Effect: Flares make bloons take +1 damage for 10% longer.

Requires: None.

Unlocks: Faster Drones, Munitions Expert.

2#

Name: Faster Drones.

Effect: Scout Drones move 20% faster.

Requires: 8 points in Military knowledge, 1 point in Longer Flares.

Unlocks: None.

3#

Name: Munitions Expert

Effect: Ammo Carrier Increases the Soldier Monkey’s popping power to 5 and attack speed to 15 frames. Subsequent upgrades are unaffected.

Requires: 8 points in Military knowledge, 1 point in Longer Flares.

Unlocks: None.