Triage: Resolved. Tips and Tricks for EASY Impossible Clear.

[Hexaton]

The only reason this level is so hard is because people (also me) keep listening to the level's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass advice.

1. You know that tip about not over-hunting 1 singular Termite colony? Throw that in the garbage bin.

The ULTIMATE and best advice for any would-be Matabelle ant-queen is this. Choose on of the 3 Termite colonies, and constantly raid it.

You can have your ants hang near the path, enter whatever you feel is the safest spot for that specific termite colony, and attack it until you have eaten everything inside that colony.

Wait for the soldiers that you pissed off to leave (even if some stay behind it's okay) and hit and run constantly.

2. Because you are focused only on 1 termite nest, remember to clear out the predators patrolling said nest. Unlike trying to juggle all 3, this is actually viable.

3. The food in the nest can despawn so move quickly once you kill the queen. And that's pretty much it.

With this one singular change in my playstyle, I could demolish the Emperor Scorpion with a massive lead in food and ant number (got to 100+ ants) with ease.

The amount of micro-management is way less too.

So yeah. literally all you need to do to beat this level with ease is to ignore the whole farming termite thing and just murderize them one at a time.

You won't be able to kill all 3 termite nests (unless you are a god) so don't worry about over-killing.

ALSO ALSO

WHY THE HELL IS THE MISSION EASIER ON IMPOSSIBLE THAN IT IS ON THE LOWER-DIFFICULTY DEVS?!

Inside your nest, there is WAY less food on lower-difficulties than there is food on Impossible. What the hell is this backward logic?!

[Hexaton]

If this was the intended playstyle, the advice from the narrator definitely threw me off.

[Hexaton]

You know why this is better?

Because you are on a timer, you only have so many nights to deal with the termites, and the more you hurt them the weaker they become and the more likely it'll be that you'll get to nom on their nest that's worth around like 3-5k worth of food (before they decay).

This is a much-needed food boost for the sheer damage the uber Titans do to your colonies.

[Hexaton]

Other than that here's some combat tips for the Titans.

The Sun Spider is easy, but a good thing to keep in mind is letting it walk to the queen will be beneficial in clearing out the colony for a straighter path.

The Centipede will only spit venom pools out the front. So make a mark far from its head (the middle of the body is usually best since the butt can slam too).

The emperor scorpion has 2 slams, one smaller one in the front, and one 360 slam. You can negate the smaller slam somewhat by marking opposite of where the most ants are since the AI seems to target the biggest group of ants for a slam based on my gameplay.

Also, once you have a critical mass (i.e 20 soldiers and 20 medics) it's better to separate the two into 2 different groups for faster movement.

[Hexaton]

Now that I figured out how to beat this mission...

I guess it's not bad at all.

I take back what I said about the Emperor Scorpion and the level. The only real flaw is the advice of not overkilling.

[LanceShields]

To be fair, once you have like 2x groups of 10 medics and 2x groups of 10 soldiers, you can split them 50/50 and raid 2 nests at the same time. Requires a little bit of micro, but it's not too bad since you're always waiting on the soldiers to go away.

[Hexaton]

Originally posted by BrentRageous:

To be fair, once you have like 2x groups of 10 medics and 2x groups of 10 soldiers, you can split them 50/50 and raid 2 nests at the same time. Requires a little bit of micro, but it's not too bad since you're always waiting on the soldiers to go away.

Nah.

The action economy and the struggle to deal with stragglers make it not worth it. Especially when with a group that large you can just deal with the Termite soldiers after like 20 seconds anyway.

Since termite soldiers staying behind aren't actually the full massive force of the Guards which rush out when you attack for too long.