The REAL Final Experiment

Information
Name	The REAL Final Experiment
Categories	Story Formicarium challenge
Environment	Formicarium
Player species	Gene-thief ant
Player units	Gene-thief ant worker Black ant soldier Wood ant shooter (either) Leafcutter ant major (either) Fire ant soldier (either) Matabele ant medic (either)
Surface	Yes
Features	Unlockables Timed attacks
Music	{{{music}}}

An unprepared colony will not survive the next challenge. Make sure you are well stocked on resources.

Objectives

• Survive the tests.

• Survive!!!

Rewards

• Base value: 6 territory, 475 food, 200 Royal Jelly

• Difficulty bonus: 1400%/ 1425%/ 1450%/ 1480%/ 1520%

• Completion bonus: + 200%

Setting

Your gene-thief ant colony must survive the final challenge by the male scientist.

You can only have up to 300 brood tiles before attempting the challenge.

Notable enemies

Enemies are on the same side.

The male scientists uses 4 equipments to test your colony during the first phase. Royal Jelly and enemies are dropped near the respective equipment at the start of each test. The respective equipments will eliminate nearby enemies and force the remaining enemies to invade your nest.

• Test 1: Acid

• Test 2: Laser - Bombardier beetles

• Test 3: Electric - Beach tiger beetles, nothern dune tiger beetles, six-spotted tiger beetles and African tiger beetles

• Test 4: Fire - Beach wolf spiders, sand bear wolf spiders, jumping spiders, magnolia green jumpers, green lynx spiders and huntsman spiders

• Test 5: Laser and electric - Leaf-mimic praying mantises and giant African mantises

• Test 6: Acid and laser

• Test 7: Acid and fire - Leaf-mimic praying mantises and giant African mantises

• Test 8: Laser, electric and fire - Various enemies

• Test 9: Acid, electric and fire - Various enemies

Wave enemies periodically enter your formicarium through 8 feeding tubes and immediately invade your nest until the end of the level. Wave enemies include leafcutter ants, trap-jaw ants, army ants, fire ants, little black ants, big-headed ants, Matabele ants and driver ants.

• Test 10: Acid, laser and fire

• Test 11: Acid, laser and electric

• Test 12: Acid, laser, electric, fire - Alligator back scorpions and large emperor scorpions

The combination of equipments in the twelfth test destroys your surface nest entrance. You lose if you haven't upgrade your resistances to level 3.

The male scientist transforms into a human-ant hybrid at the start of the second phase. He destroys various containers in the process and drops various enemies in your formicarium. You can control the scientist's hand to crush surface enemies.

• Test 13: Fire

• Test 14: Electric

• Test 15: Acid

• Test 16: Laser

Achievements

(to be added)

Trivia

• During the ending cutscene, the male scientist takes the queen and escapes from the lab.

Minimaps

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