Dartling Gun

### Appearances

Quincy: A BTD Story (mentioned only), BTD Heroes (briefly), BTD7: Planet of the Apes

### Final Upgrades

See the upgrades section

The **Dartling Gun** makes a return in BTD7: Planet of the Apes after being absent on the official BTD6.

## Changes

Due to the existence of Tier 6 upgrades and 3 upgrade paths, a lot of the upgrades have been switched around. The first path is the iconic path where the minigun becomes a ray of absolute annihilation. The second path makes the gun fire more darts than the quantity of atoms in the universe. The 3rd path is the typical rocket path where the minigun fires powerful explosives at an alarming rate.

## Upgrades

### Path 1

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 **Wall Hack**Smart molecular vibration technology allows the gun's projectiles to phase through obstacles, at the cost of -1 popping power per individual obstacle per bullet.
 **Laser Cannon**Converts the gun into a super powerful laser cannon. Blasts from this cannon can pop 13 bloons each, can pop frozen bloons, and have increased attack rate.
 **Ray of Doom**The Ray of Doom is a persistent solid beam of bloon destruction. 1,000 pierce, 70 damage per second.
 **Gaussian Supralight Dark Matter Cannon**A devastating superweapon firing a beam of concentrated dark matter at muzzle velocities twice the speed of light. 3,000 pierce, 450 damage per second.
 **Darkmatter-Antiquark-GammaRayBurst Immolation Laser (DAGRBIL; "Dagger's Bill") - "The Last Straw"**Behold the fusion of the three destroyers of the laws of physics, bound into one harbinger of cataclysm. When all bets are off, this is the last straw on the camel's back we pull out against our ancient enemy. The dagger's bill, the butcher's cut. 5,200 pierce, 1,900 damage per second.

### Path 2

 **Even More Powerful Darts**Darts move even faster and can pop 5 Bloons each.
 **Hydra Rocket Pods**Shoots vicious little missiles instead of darts. Hydra rockets have sharp tips that can pop black bloons.
 **Bloon Area Denial System**The BADS covers a wide area with each shot. Each rocket inflicts 15 damage. Enables the Rocket Storm Ability: Rocket Storm shoots out a missile towards the nearest 100 bloons on screen. Ouch!
 **MOAB Mauler Minigun of Anguish**Each rocket inflicts 60 base damage, and 9x damage against MOAB-Class Bloons. Ability shoots out missiles towards the nearest 1,000 Bloons on the screen.
 **MOAB Assassin Minigun - Extirpator-grade Multiple Launch Rocket System (E-MLRS)**Each rocket inflicts 700 Armor-Piercing damage, and 25x damage against MOAB-Class Bloons. Ability shoots out missiles towards ALL BLOONS on the screen, regardless of number. Leave no bogey alive. Scorch the opposition in the darkest night, until not even ash remains of the dead.

### Path 3

 **Depleted Bloontonium Darts**Shoots specially modified darts that can hurt any bloon type.
 **Triple Shot**Fires 3 darts per shot instead of one with a very tight spread. Each dart inflicts 4 damage per hit.
 **Penta Shot**
5 darts per shot instead of 3 with a very tight spread. Fire rate increased by 45%.
 **Torrential Darts**Each dart inflicts 13 damage per hit. Fire rate increased by 3 times. Fires 7 darts per shot instead of 5. That's a LOOOOT of darts.
 **Dartling God**It is said that in the dawn of firearms came an epitome of saturation fire, a master of autocannons who would unleash a hail of projectiles wherever he went, until there was none left of his enemies but a trillion holes etched on the earth. Darts split into 5 as they hit their targets, which themselves split into 5 smaller darts. Has a fire rate of 75 attacks per second.

## Trivia

* Originally, the 5th and 6th tiers of first upgrade paths were to be Star-Wars-referenced elements, but was retconned after the full extent of how much J. J. Abrams and his cohorts had utterly defaced and blighted the Star Wars franchise. The sequels (Star Wars VII, VIII, IX) were truly abominations defiling what was once a respected and loved series.
	+ The Death Star was the old name for the Tier 4 upgrade, and though it references to the good part of Star Wars (the Original Trilogy is the best), the upgrade from it would inevitably lead to Starkiller Base which comes from the infamous Star Wars VII. Then I decided to eliminate the Star Wars references from this tower in entirety.