Subjugation

Information
Name	Subjugation
Categories	Story Documentary mission
Environment	Woodland
Player species	Black ant
Player units	Black ant worker Black ant soldier
Surface	No
Features	Timed attacks Challenge mode

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 live 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 first wave is scripted and only has a single stealer. Subsequent waves appear every 100 seconds. Soldiers move toward your queen while stealers wander around your nest to look for larvae. Brood tiles with taken larvae can't be occupied for 90 seconds.

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. Dust clouds appear where they are about to arrive. They have higher chance to appear in larger chambers.

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

Achievements
Icons	Name	Requirements
	Subjugation	Beat the mission on designated difficulty.
	Rapid Growth	Beat the mission within 16 minutes. (medium)
	Nope	Eliminate 10 funnel-web spiders within the first 6 minutes then beat the mission. (hard)
	Against the Odds	Lose 80% of your larvae to a single attacking wave then beat the mission. (extreme)
	Get Your Own Eggs	Beat the mission after losing only a single larva. (impossible)
	Enemy of My Enemy	Get a mole cricket to eliminate a funnel-web spider then beat the mission. (challenge)
	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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