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
Music	{{{music}}}

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

Objectives

• Eliminate 100/ 125/ 150/ 150/ 150 driver ants and prevent them from taking 30/ 25/ 20/ 20/ 20 pieces of food in a single raid.

• 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 attempt the second objective everyday until you succeed. The game only checks the requirement after the driver ants have retreated.

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

The enemy termite colonies don't interact with each other. They 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. They occasionally fight among themselves to keep their own number in check.

Wafer trapdoor spiders hide everywhere on the surface.

Huntsman spiders hide beneath large rocks. They occasionally move toward the center of the map and retreat after 5 seconds or after they have eaten any food.

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. Some enemies can come out of empty termite mounds.

African 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, just before the driver ants appear.

African stink ants gather any food on the way. They have 40% chance to spawn another stink ant from nearby spawners when they take damage.

Driver ants

Driver ants don't invade your nest. Driver ants and stink ants are hostile to each other.

Driver ants conduct raids on termite colonies during the day and retreat at night. They gather any food on the way.

The target is chosen in a specific order: green - yellow - blue - pink. They only move on to the next colony after they have gathered all available food in the current mound.

Challenge

Assassin bugs gather on the ways to termite mounds. They disappear at noon. They are ignored by the enemy ants even without their armor.

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