Army Ant
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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 attack damage of 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:
You can play with army ant majors in:
- The Other Foot
- Tug of War
You can also encounter non-player army ants in:
Notable stats
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 after each 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.