Drive Them Back

Information
Name	Drive Them Back
Categories	Story Documentary
Environment	Savannah
Player species	Matabele ant
Player units	Matabele ant worker Matabele ant medic (either) Matabele ant soldier
Surface	Yes
Features	Challenge mode AI colonies Circadian rhythm

Without termites to eat, the Matabele will starve. They must be protected.
Well disguised assassins walk unhindered amongst the ants.

Objectives

• Eliminate 150 driver ants and prevent them from taking 20 pieces of food.

• Keep at least a termite colony alive.

Rewards

• Base value: 6 territory/ 475 food/ 17 Royal Jelly

• Difficulty bonus: 300%/ 325%/ 350%/ 380%/ 420%

• First-time bonus: + 1500%

• Challenge bonus: + 100%

• Completion bonus: + 200%

Settings

A Matabele ant colony must repel an advancing swarm of driver ants and protect its food sources.

The level starts at night.

You have access to 4 termite colonies.

You can repeat the second objective everyday until you succeed.

You must choose either anesthetist or fast-responder medics before playing the level. You start with 13/ 10/ 7/ 6/ 6 soldier brood tiles and 7 food storage tiles.

AI colonies

Termite colonies retreat inside at noon and gather lignocellulose within their territories for the rest of the day.

Minor soldiers and major soldiers are kept around the queen and are only deployed to protect the gathering groups.

Brood tiles with eliminated termites can't incubate for 12 minutes.

Notable enemies

Enemies are on the same side and are hostile to the ants.

Earwigs and termites live in your nest.

Surface enemies don't invade your nest.

African tiger beetles and rainbow lizards only appear on the surface during the day.

Rainbow lizards run out of the map when they have below 45% of their health. Large lizards will take medium lizards with them.

Earwigs, sun spiders, African giant centipedes, alligator back scorpions and emperor scorpions only appear on the surface at night.

Stink ants

African stink ants frequently appear underground and move around through the soil. They disappear quickly if you don't dig into their paths. You must eliminate a certain number of stink ants to make them close off their tunnels.

African stink ants also travel between termite mounds on the surface only in the morning. This only happens if you make them close off any tunnels in your nest.

African stink ants gather any food on the way. They can summon more stink ants from nearby spawners when they take damage.

Driver ants

Driver ants conduct raids on termite mounds during the day.

Challenge

Assassin bugs gather on the ways to termite mounds. They disappear at noon.

Achievements

(to be added)

Trivia

(none)

Minimaps

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  Surface

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  Underground - player

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  Underground - blue

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  Underground - yellow

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  Underground - green

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  Underground - pink