Bullets

Bullets

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Bullets is a 3 Mana card. It is an area damage spell with a very wide radius and low-moderate damage that targets both air and ground and appears in-game as a hoard of brown bullets with red heads.

## Strategy

* Bullets are extremely effective against large swarms of low health troops such as the Devil Horde or Faun Horde. It costs 1 more Mana than spells such as Blitz or Rolling Steel, but they have a larger area of effect and also deal more damage.
	+ It can also be used to counter the smaller robots from the Flying Robot, denying all the damage if timed correctly.
* The spell can be used to finish off buildings that are extremely low on hitpoints. However, this is generally discouraged unless another vulnerable unit is played in the area so that it isn't a negative Mana trade.
* Bullets are a neutral but very reliable counter to a Faun Barrel. When the opponent throws the barrel, the player should play the card when or slightly before the Fauns spawn, and they will be instantly destroyed. Bullets are particularly useful versus opponents who like to mix up their Faun Barrel placements, and it requires a less precise timing than the Rolling Steel or the Footman Barrel for an equal instead of positive mana trade.
* An effective tactic is to deploy less valuable swarm cards to bait an opponent into using their Bullets on them, and then deploying more threatening swarm cards like the Faun Barrel when the spell is out of their hand.
	+ However, if the opponent has other small spells or splash troops, such as Rolling Steel, Footman Barrel, Bomber or Steel Hammer, may simply end up feeding them several positive Mana trades, so these counters should also be baited out.
* This card is very similar to the Rolling Steel in function with certain differences. While the Bullets card is more expensive, it has the ability to damage air troops and hits a larger area and deals more damage. However, Bullets doesn't have the knockback or the unique rectangular radius that the Rolling Stee does.
	+ It can also be compared to the Footman Barrel, though it doesn’t have neither the Footman spawning mechanic nor does it have the unique rectangular radius like the Rolling Steel.
* Bullets may highly damage some other fragile units like the Piercing Archer and Mother\_Skeleton. While it will not defeat them alone, it will bring them low enough so that using other spells like Blitz will finish them off. However, this results in a negative Mana trade, so make sure that you hit additional units with them with either spell.

## History

2023

* The Bullets card was released with Boom Arena's game launch on 4/5/2023.
* The card name was changed from Arrow to Arrows on 6/30/2023.
* The card name was changed from Arrows to Bullets on an unknown date. The card icon was also changed.

## Gallery

Bullets Card IconThe icon for the card back when it was called "Arrows".
## Trivia

* It's the Boom Arena equivalent to the Arrows, except that only launches one volley of projectiles instead of three, making it lesss practical against units with shields.
* It, alongside Cemetery, have the third biggest spell radius in the game with 4 tiles, only behind Madness (5 tiles) and Cyclone (5.5 tiles)
* It is also the first card to receive a name change (from Arrow to Arrows). It later got another name change.