Gatling Gun

Gatling redirects here. For the second Gatling defense, see Gatling Gun II.

Gatling Gun is the second Defense in ScrapTD and is unlocked by default (formerly used to cost 200 Bricks to unlock).

Strategical use
When the enemy spam spawns Square Pink this defense is almost the only way to defeat it, the other one is to have many Square Blue. It's really quick (10 shots a second), once it got placed it can beat all Square Pinks wanting to go further if the defense isn't seriously underleveled and the Square Pink isn't seriously overleveled. It doesn't do really bad against Banana Hole at first, but when many cone it needs the support of at least 2 Airstrike towers (usually 3) or one Shooting Box. It helps too clearing Billboard, but Airstrike or Shooting Box are way better in that.

This defence is pretty much useless once Lurid Layered and higher gets sent out, but it's an excellent early game defence to help you survive against Banana Hole which are your biggest threat.

Overall use
Gatling Gun albeit is necessary to have just like Square Blue, mainly for Banana Hole purposes, so getting at least 5 Gatlings is going to be the best way of handling Banana Holes because most players in higher arenas will have this barrel to at least level 10-20 as of now, it is also worth mentioning that spending bricks to upgrade the Gatling is 100% worth since you have to worry about Bananas during the early game.

However, it shares the same purpose just like Square Blue as mentioned above, but for Banana Hole and sometimes Billboard.

Trivia

 * It was named in 0.1.2 by Ergin27, as he thought of a really fast firing defense.
 * It has got the same damage as Square Blue, but it shoots 10 times as fast.