How to win as neurax worm?

[Bomber Rex]

Any strategies? (normal difficulty)

Edit: rephrased the question

[Desticler]

Keep beating plagues on Normal difficulty or higher. You'll unlock new ones.

Neurax Worm is actually pretty early in the game: first you beat Bacteria, then Virus, then Fungus, and they you have the Neurax Worm.

[Bomber Rex]

Sorry had to rephrase the question.

I meant how do you beat the game. Kill the world as neurax worm? Any strategies?

[Desticler]

Oh......
I thought Neurax Worm is one of the easiest.

You don't actually have to kill anyone. There's a symptom that wins the game if there are no healthy people left. I forgot how it's called, but here's how to get to it: After you evolve the first 2 symptioms, go left, and then up. It's the one that adds a lot of severity. So infect the whole world while looking as innocent as possible so that the cure isn't a high priority, and then get that symptom.

[lexilogo]

Neurax Worm is definitely one of the easiest plagues in my humble opinion. It IS more complex than stuff like bacteria or fungus, but once you learn the mechanics more exclusive to the worm, playing Neurax Worm is pretty easy.

Some tips:

-As Desticler mentioned, Neurax Worm has a special symptom path that allows you to enslave the human race without killing it, which is a win condition. 100% infected countries will stop working on a cure once you've gotten it and if you infect the whole planet it instantly wins you the game.

-Infected planes are extremely strong. Invest in the basic version of them ASAP and if lategame progress is going too slow for you, upgrade them. The reason why infected planes are so good is because they allow you to infect any country you want regardless of preventative measures they may employ (so no worrying about Greenland. If you fail to infect them you can just send a plane later) and because it gives you free DNA points every time you send a plane off.

-Neurax Worm also has several abilities that reduce Severity, which will make the worm less likely to be discovered and even if it is found, humanity will be less likely to make a cure and will invest less money in a cure. If you can't see any yellow on the Severity meter, that means the worm is practically invisible and will likely only be discovered when nearly everyone is infected.

-Don't bother with too much Transmission as Neurax Worm. Unlike most other diseases Transmission comes with the penalty of increased Severity in many cases for the Neurax Worm which

The bottom line is be subtle and infect loads of people before anyone knows what's going on, then continue to masquerade as a totally harmless parasite until about 60% of people are infected. Then go crazy with symptoms (most people go down the Transendence path which is the humanity enslavement one) and ramp up Infectivity as much as you can, it won't be long before everyone's infected and there's no preventative measure that can't be countered with your airplane armada.