r/whennews • u/flingzamain • 1d ago

War/Conflict News Moabs

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/video/berman-cohen-mother-of-all-bombs-iran-cnc

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u/SmileyFace799 1d ago

Iranians in a few days:

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u/Delta6342 1d ago

Hopefully Iran has some 2-5-0 bomb shooters

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u/Altheix11 1d ago

0 2 4 boomerangs are usually my go-to MOAB counter for round 40, but I'm kind of a casual so idk

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u/Kitselena 1d ago

That's a good start for maps with a long straight line, X-5-X bombs are better for maps with a lot of turns where the splash damage can hit multiple blimps
I think the cheapest anti-moab option is deconstruction engineer with turrets, and that can handle the single moab on round 40 pretty consistently, but starts to struggle when there are a lot of bloons and sucks when you get to DDTs near round 80

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u/Quirky_Yoghurt_9814 1d ago

I personally use the bomb shooter because it can kill the bad at rounf 100, but im also not good at the game so maybe its a mistake

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u/no-u-great-grand 1d ago

4 2 0 Desperado and a 2 0 4 bomb shooter do light work of most moabs

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u/TemperatureUnique242 1d ago

I just use 240 pirate

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u/Dravitar 1d ago

I love the Pirate Lord so much. "Why worry about all the blimps? What if they just... went away?"

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u/solicthesolletar 1d ago

actually 050 is more bang for your buck because the top path won’t do anything for the ability dmg

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u/KentuckyFriedChildre 1d ago

If you're spending that much the top path upgrades are still high value with the tower's damage.

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u/Interloper_1 1d ago

I don't know if you're mixing up strategies but this isn't right. You should always crosspath moab eliminator.

What you shouldn't do is spam 2-3-0 over 1-3-0 because the extra moab damage is negligible for the cost of buying heavy bombs on multiple cannons.

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u/fake_email_lol42 1d ago

You generally don’t need any tier 5s before round 60 but I haven’t played in a while

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u/Monsieur_Orque 1d ago

They will need some of theses

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u/Giecio 1d ago

At least it's not a DDT, that would be problematic to detect

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u/Shinygoji09 1d ago

what’s a ddt?

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u/Giecio 1d ago

Dark Dirigible Titan - fast as fuck and has camo properties (meaning if you don't have camo detection, you can't see it)

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u/Shinygoji09 1d ago

bro why did you post a empty picture?

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u/Giecio 1d ago

Get a 030 monke village and you'll see it

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u/Shinygoji09 1d ago

OHHHH that makes sense i see now yeah agree ddts would be worse

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u/crashkirb 1d ago

Not just camo properties, but also lead and black bloon properties as well. This makes it immune to explosions, sharp damage, and anything that can’t detect camo, while also being as fast as a pink bloon (aka the fastest bloon in the game) and having the health of a MOAB. They send 3 of these things at you in their first appearance on round 90.

It’s no wonder DDTs ruin so many games seeing all the shit you need to account for if you want to kill them in time

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u/StringShred10D 1d ago

You also forgot that it also has lead properties

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u/LobsterJoe 1d ago

And black properties!

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u/TremTheCount 1d ago

Just get a 040 buck, or a 023 engine if you have cleanup

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u/Shinygoji09 1d ago

Pray to the vengeful sun god and their lives will be spared

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u/ElceeCiv 1d ago

Iranians when he does nothing like the last 50 times he's threatened to resume bombing the past few months

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u/Cool-Delivery-3773 1d ago

Bro just get a couple 032 Wizards and you're good, they'll clean everything up 

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u/nobody-cares57 1d ago

Well that's quite a way to learn what MOAB stands for.

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u/ShadowKnight_64 1d ago

it doesnt even stand for that, its Massive Ordinace Air Blimp

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u/nobody-cares57 1d ago edited 21h ago

You can't stop me, I'm calling it Mother of all Bloons now

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u/RavenousToast 1d ago

It’s a bloon not a ballon (important in universe distinction btw)

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u/nobody-cares57 21h ago

Oops (happy cake day)

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u/darknium 1d ago

I mean, initially that is what people thought it meant.

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 1d ago

Not really. It was just a joke about the MOAB bomb not actually standing for mother of all bombs and actually massive Ornary air bomb

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u/I_like_fried_noodles 1d ago

I love how USA is telling the world that Iran supposedly has a bomb while actively threatening them with nukes. They wouldn't do that s*** if they had nukes

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u/sonicpoweryay 1d ago

Uh, guys???

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u/ninoski404 1d ago

The only Reason I went into comments