Army Ant

Information
Common name	Army ant
Scientific name	Eciton burchellii
Environment	Rainforest
Castes	Media Major
Traits	Damage buff
Playable colony	No

Army ants (Eciton burchellii) are playable in extra missions and custom games.

Abilities

Army ants use basic attack by biting. Majors can only use basic attack while mounting enemies.

Majors can increase the damage of themselves and nearby allies each time they hit their attacks. The effect stacks on top of itself and reverts to normal over time. Army ants glow red when the effect reaches the maximum value of + 45. Majors can only use this ability while on the ground.

Appearances

You can play with army ant mediae in:

• The Other Foot

• Tug of War

You can play with army ant majors in:

• The Other Foot

• Excavators

• Tug of War

• New Year's Feast

You can also encounter non-player army ants in:

• Front Line

• Possibly the Final Experiment

• The REAL Final Experiment

• Aggrandise

• Extremis

• Enemy of My Enemy

• Beetles Rise Up!

• Adventure

• Festive Spider

Notable stats

Army ant media
Common stats	Cost: 40/ 3 Health: 30/ 40/ 55 Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300 Score: 10/ 15/ 22 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 15 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	AOE resistance: 20%/ 20%/ 20%
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 3/ 4.5/ 6 Attack speed: 1.3/ 1.4/ 1.5

Army ant major
Common stats	Cost: 170/ 15 Health: 90/ 105/ 130 Movement speed: 320/ 320/ 320 Score: 30/ 42/ 54 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 15 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.15/ 0.2 Threat: 0.3/ 0.3/ 0.3 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	Physical resistance: 20%/ 30%/ 40%
Immunities	Immune to pickup/ knockback
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 8/ 10/ 12 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1.2
Flashbuff	Damage (physical): 5/ 7.5/ 10 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1	Damage buff Tick buff: + 0.6/ + 0.8/ + 1.1 Debuff speed: - 2/ - 2/ - 2 Radius: 200/ 250/ 300

Trivia

• In real life, army ants have four castes: minors, mediae, sub-majors and majors. In the game, sub-majors and mediae are grouped into just mediae because they both act as generic combat units. Either of the two models can be spawned randomly from media brood tiles.

• In real life, army ants can sting. The developers don't implement this in the game to focus on their damage supporting gimmick.

• In real life, army ant majors release an alarm pheromone from their mandibular glands when they bite. The signal attracts more army ants to the contested area and further increases their aggression. In the game, the orange pheromone cloud was later changed to red glow for better game performance.

• Army ants have been confirmed to be unplayable as complete colonies because they mostly build bivouacs using their own bodies.