Airstrike

Airstrike is the third Defense in ScrapTD and is unlocked by default (formerly used to cost 200 Bricks to unlock).

Strategical use
Airstrike is the weakest defense and costs a lot, it takes some time until you can build it. It's the first that can attack flying barrels, but isn't really strong against Lurid Layered. Several Aistrikes can defeat few Lurids, however it is often better to wait for Double Pain, which will get rid of them in no time. It can help quite a bit to clear out Banana Hole, but usually you just skip this one and use Shooting Box instead, which destroys Bananas.

Upgrading this defence isn't really worth spending bricks on, but it does have some use in the higher arenas.

Overall use
Airstrike is currently the worst defense as of right now, as it can easily let alone Lurid Layered and other air barrels which makes it do it's job inefficaciously, but it's only useful against Banana Hole and Billboard because Shooting Box does way better at handling them for 300k more scrap.

For a 200k defence, it is very underwhelming and should never be used until Lurid Layered gets nerfed or the defence buffed. Since it deals like no damage to Lurids whatsoever, you're better off waiting until you get Double Pain so it can burst them down with ease, so Airstrike is pretty much WORTHLESS.

Trivia

 * It was named by Schrottii in update 0.4, inspired by the Airstrike article in the english wikipedia.


 * It deals x20 as much damage than the bullets from Square Blue and Gatling Gun.

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