Create the perfect ant-spawning machine Place and combine brood chambers that produce ants with wildly different traits, then enhance them with pheromones from your queen to refine and optimise your composition. Everything that happens overground is driven by your nest. Send forth the swarm With your subterranean base calibrated, turn your attention to the surface and erupt from your anthill. Send soldiers to hold back incoming enemy trails, keeping workers safe as they gather precious food and return it to the nest. Manage the battle An ant is expendable, but a thousand ants are not. Distribute the flow of the swarm in all directions to meet the needs of the colony: too many soldiers to the north leaves the south exposed; too many workers to the east leaves you unable to seize new opportunities in the west. Unleash your champions Not all ants are created equal. By design, or by chance, your nest will produce rare genetic outliers. These champions among ants can be held at the nest entrance and deployed at the decisive moment to turn the tide of battle. Scale to overwhelming numbers Grow your colony from a trickle into a flood. Command battles that swell to thousands of ants, where directing and maintaining the flow matters more than any single unit.
