This Formica fusca colony has been spotted by a nearby enemy colony with a sinister intention.
The log is also home to some fascinating burrowing creatures that will make nest building extra challenging. (challenge)
Objectives[]
- Build or upgrade 50 worker tiles.
- Build or upgrade 50 soldier tiles.
- Survive the final wave.
Rewards[]
- Base value: 4 territory, 325 food, 10 Royal Jelly
- Difficulty bonus: 230%/ 260%/ 300%/ 350%/ 420%
- First-time bonus: + 250%
- Challenge bonus: + 100%
- Completion bonus: + 200%
Settings[]
In this mission, a black ant colony must survive constant raids from a nearby slave-maker ant colony. You don't have access to the surface.
Notable enemies[]
Enemies from different species are hostile to each other. Slave-maker ant stealers are completely ignored.
Woodworms, woodlice, larval devil's coach horse beetles and funnel-web spiders inhabit in your nest.
Slave-maker ants enter your nest through the nearby spawners and increase in number and level each time. It only happens after you have killed a funnel-web spider. The 1st wave only has a single stealer and can't be stopped. Subsequent waves appear every 100 seconds. Soldiers move toward your queen while stealers wander around your nest to look for larvae.
If the first 2 objectives are completed when an attacking wave is about to arrive, it is treated as the final wave.
Challenge:
Mole crickets enter your nest from above after you have played for 4 minutes. A single mole cricket appears in odd-numbered waves. Multiple mole crickets appear in even-numbered waves and increase in number each time (1 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 1 - 4 - 1 - 5... respectively). The inbetween time decreases by 10 seconds after each wave, down to 80 seconds.
Achievements[]
| Icons | Name | Requirements |
    
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Subjugation | Beat the mission on designated difficulty. |
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Rapid Growth | Beat the mission within 16 minutes. (medium) |
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Nope | Eliminate 10 funnel-web spiders within the first 6 minutes then beat the mission. (hard) |
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Against the Odds | Lose 80% of your larvae to a single attacking wave then beat the mission. (extreme) |
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Get Your Own Eggs | Beat the mission after losing only a single larva. (impossible) |
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Enemy of My Enemy | Get a mole cricket to eliminate a funnel-web spider then beat the mission. (challenge) |
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I Can Eat 50 Eggs | Beat the mission after losing at least 50 larvae. (challenge - impossible) |
Trivia[]
- Slave-maker ant stealers are available only in this mission and only as enemies.
- I Can Eat 50 Eggs is a reference to Cool Hand Luke.
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