Tug of War

Information

Name	Tug of War
Categories	Extra
Player species	Gene-thief ant
Player units	Black ant soldier Wood ant soldier Wood ant shooter (rapid-fire) Leafcutter ant media Leafcutter ant major (taunt) Slave-maker ant soldier Trap-jaw ant soldier Army ant media Army ant major
Surface	Yes
Features	AI colonies Instant spawning Automatic battling

This mission is an auto-battling game mode against an AI opponent.

Objectives

Eliminate the enemy queen.

Settings

Gene-thief ant colonies must fight each other in an arena.

Eggs are automatically spawned for free on available brood tiles. The inbetween time starts at 25 seconds and increases by 1 second after each spawn.

Acquired food is automatically placed in food storage. You gain food every 30 seconds until storage is full. Food income is calculated based on the following formula.

Food income = 35 + 0.01 x combat score

Food income increases when your colony is taking control of the halfway point.

Food income (bonus) = (35 + 0.01 x combat score) * 1.1 + 2

Your ants are automatically put in the first pheromone group every 30 seconds and move toward the enemy nest. They return to the queen if you move them to other pheromone groups. You can only toggle attacking.

You have 37 level 3 food storage tiles at the start of the level. They can be deleted for food. You can only build brood tiles and highway tiles.

You have access to black ant soldiers, wood ant soldiers, rapid-fire wood ant shooters, leafcutter ant mediae, taunt leafcutter ant majors, slave-maker ant soldiers, trap-jaw ant soldiers, army ant mediae and army ant majors. You don't have access to workers.

AI colony

The enemy colony has access to the same units and uses the same mechanics as your colony.

Food income is calculated based on the following formula. The value of difficulty multiplier is 0.8/ 0.95/ 1/ 1.2/ 1.5.

Food income = (35 + 0.01 x combat score) x multiplier

Food income increases when the enemy colony is taking control of the halfway point.

Food income (bonus) = (35 + 0.01 x combat score) x multiplier x 1.1 + 2

The enemy colony randomly chooses a unit composition and the correponding nest design to build each game.

Choice 1: Wood ant soldiers, wood ant shooters

Choice 2: Army ant mediae, army ant majors

Choice 3: Black ant soldiers, wood ant soldiers, wood ant shooters, trap-jaw ant soldiers

Choice 4: Black ant soldiers, wood ant soldiers, leafcutter ant majors

Choice 5: Black ant soldiers, wood ant shooters, leafcutter ant mediae

Choice 6: Black ant soldiers, leafcutter ant mediae, leafcutter ant majors, trap-jaw ant soldiers, army ant majors

Choice 7 (uncommon nest design): Black ant soldiers, leafcutter ant majors, army ant majors

Choice 8 (uncommon nest design): Black ant soldiers, trap-jaw ant soldiers, army ant majors

Choice 9: Wood ant shooters, leafcutter ant majors, trap-jaw ant soldiers, army ant mediae

Choice 10: Wood ant shooters, trap-jaw ant soldiers, army ant mediae

Trivia

Empires of the Undergrowth was planned as a tug-of-war mobile game. This wasn't well received among kickstarters, which helped turn it into a real-time-strategy PC game.