Babysitting

Information
Name	Babysitting
Categories	Extra
Player species	Wood ant
Player units	Wood ant worker Wood ant soldier Wood ant shooter (rapid-fire)
Surface	Yes
Features	Non-player colonies Uber creatures Powerscaled enemies Timed attacks
Music	Queen of the Hill Theme
Remix	Yes

Your brood sister's colony is very brave and enthusiastic but not very smart, you'll want to keep them out of trouble.

Objectives

• Eliminate all enemies.

• Keep the ally colony alive.

Settings

A wood ant colony must keep an ally colony from getting in trouble.

You only have access to rapid-fire shooters.

Non-player colony

The ally wood ant colony only has access to rapid-fire shooters.

The ally colony will move to designated locations on the map in a strict order. It doesn't respond when the queen is in danger. You will be alerted on the minimaps when it chooses a new location.

It comes to help you only once throughout the entire mission. This is a scripted event.

Notable enemies

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

Woodworms, woodlice and devil's coach horse beetles live in your nests.

Surface enemies will engage the ally colony and invade its nest at designated time. They will invade your nest if you attack them first.

The first, the fourth and the fifthteenth enemy group remain in their territories. The second enemy group will invade your nest without being attacked first.

• Group 1: Small beach wolf spiders

• Group 2: Small beach tiger beetles

• Group 3: Larval devil's coach horse beetles

• Group 4: Tiny hermit crabs

• Group 5: Funnel-web spiders

• Group 6: Small beach tiger beetles

• Group 7: Small hermit crabs

• Group 8: Adult devil's coach horse beetles

• Group 9: Larval northern dune tiger beetles

• Group 10: Large beach tiger beetles

• Group 11: Large beach wolf spiders

• Group 12: Small hermit crabs

• Group 13: Large tiger beetles

• Group 14: Medium beach wolf spiders

• Group 15: Star-level 1 large beach wolf spiders, star-level 1 large beach tiger beetles and star-level 1 small hermit crabs

• Group 16: The uber hermit crab hides under a log to the southwest of your nest. It doesn't move or appear on the minimap before the time comes. You don't have to eliminate it to beat the mission.

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  Surface enemy groups

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  Underground enemy groups

Trivia

• This mission was originally called Brood Sisters during development. It was later changed to emphasize the amount of attention the ally colony needs.

• John decided to keep the uber hermit crab in after some viewers suggested it as a joke.

Minimaps

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  Surface

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  Underground - player

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  Underground - yellow