Feeder Colony Bottlenecking

[Redmoth27]

There's a glitch on the first challenge. If you were to put a pheromone marker away from your nest during the nonstop attacks (specifically near the trail), and then put the pheromone marker in the nest; There will be a small group of ants not going to the pheromone (Because the feeder soldiers are distracting them) and working their way up to the entrance of the feeder colony. They then will camp out for the rest of the mission and bottleneck them. This will be a LOT more common when you've made minor improvements to black ants because the black ants completely overpower the feeder soldiers. The second image is the improvements I used to cause this glitch.

 

[MedinB]

This is not a glitch, this is entirely your fault. What groups are those soldiers? Green? Blue? Then press refuse attack, mostly all of them will go to the pheromone marker you put them at, some might get attacked which means they'll still attack until the enemy is dealt with.

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

Yeah this is working as intended.

 

[Redmoth27]

@MedinBurnic and @MikeSlugDisco I beg to differ:

 

[TerrificTimmeh]

If anything, you can use this to your advantage. You get a few soldier ants distracted by the trail of enemy ants; they follow them back and bottleneck them in combat so if you have to face multiple waves of enemies you aren't fighting on so many fronts at the same time at your colony entrance.

 

[Redmoth27]

That's a Good Idea