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While the early scenarios start off fairly tame, the game adds challenges quickly and relentlessly.

Pick Your Battles

It’s kill or be killed in the Undergrowth.

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The larger the symbol, the bigger the bug.

Everything that you will fight in this game is bigger than you.

However, you’ll need Workers tomaintain the nest and keep the army in fighting shape.

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We recommend havingone Worker for every three to four Soldiersto keep things running smoothly.

Even if they aren’t upgraded, they’ll be a big help over the course of the mission.

A tile that isn’t built upon isn’t doing anything to help the colony.

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If your storage is full, build more Soldier Broods.

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It will free up space and give you more fighting power.

you might also use the Function keys to view your own colony and those of rivals.

If your stores are empty, your numbers will diminish until you might no longer offer any resistance.

a queen chamber surrounded by worker (green) melee (purple) and ranged (brown) brood chambers in empires of the undergrowth

If you might’t defend the Queen, it’s game over.

Beyond that, theyaren’t especially good at coordinatingwithout help from you.

As long as there are no enemies to fight or food to gather, they’ll just stand around.

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