BlueStacks' Beginners Guide to Playing Ant Legion: For the Swarm
Hundreds of thousands play Ant Legion: For the Swarm every day around the world competing against each other to build the strongest colony on the server. There are different types of players with many just content on building a stable colony that they can take care of after a long day of work or school. Others want to dominate the server by emphasizing the strength of their colony through military expeditions. Regardless of what type of player you want to be, you need to learn the fundamentals of playing the game to survive.
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Ant Legion is the type of game where newbies are heavily punished for playing the game without experience. Both the game’s mechanics and the battle-hardened players will make your life difficult because of the challenges that they’ll throw your way. The best way to avoid getting farmed by experienced players is to learn what you need to do early on. Make sure to install Ant Legion on BlueStacks so that you can take advantage of the different features that come with this platform.
Resource Management
Resources are an important part of playing Ant Legion because everything you do requires spending certain supplies that you produce which can certainly run out. If your colony is unable to produce more resources than it is spending or is not using the resources that it is producing, your progress will be stunted significantly. There needs to be a right balance of production and consumption to make sure that your colony stays ahead of the competition.
The economic sector of real-time strategy games which involves the usage and production of resources is considered the backbone of your overall gameplay. Players need to create a fully stable economy that can keep up with rapid expansion to consider your playthrough a success. The player should never think that they should slow down their progression if they are not producing enough resources. Instead, it’s always great to find different ways to develop the economic sector of their colony.
Military Development
The military aspect of real-time strategy games is also an important part of your progression. Even if you are a player who is not interested in attacking other players, there is no guarantee that another player will not attack you for being a pacifist. Besides, soldier ants also play an important role in developing your economy and helping you complete various tasks so it’s extremely important that you have a powerful army at your disposal to defend you against invaders and help you secure more resources.
Ant Legion uses two different types of military units which are your standard soldier ants and the specialized ants that lead the horde. You’ll need to get powerful specialized ants to lead your armies as the number of soldier ants you can take into battle depends on the influence level of their leaders. As long as you have enough specialized ants and constantly train new soldier ants to replenish the ones you’ve lost, you’ll ensure that you can progress into the game regardless of how you utilize your army.
Upgrading the Habitat
Upgrading the habitat is also an important task but you probably already know that. The thing that we want to emphasize is that players need to upgrade the habitat efficiently by constantly having all their structures actively doing tasks. Structures like your research lab, training habitats, building queues, and march slots should always be in use and doing something while you’re playing the game. If they are left idle for too long, your progression will be slowed down significantly.
Ant Legion may seem like a game that doesn’t see a lot of action but the truth is that the game gives players lots of tasks that they can accomplish. A good tip is to always have your buildings at max level depending on your Queen’s current level. Before you upgrade your Queen, always upgrade the rest of your structures first regardless of what the chapter quest is telling you to prioritize. The most important building to upgrade is your resource production buildings which serve as the primary pillar of your economy.
The Research Lab
The research lab is where you can upgrade certain sectors of your colony to increase their efficiency when playing the game. For example, you can research ways to improve your food production so that you’ll be able to gain more stuff from your farms. The different sectors you can upgrade in the research lab include economy, military, and overall development. The more tech you develop, the more efficient your colony will be at doing different tasks in the game.
The common mistake that a lot of beginners make is not giving focus on the research lab because the upgrades seem small and irrelevant. However, these upgrades actually impact your colony at a deeper level than Ant Legion portrays it to be because the stacking buffs eventually make it so that you’ll see a clear difference. As we mentioned already, it’s always a good idea to have your research lab actively unlocking and upgrading new tech so that your colony will progress even further.
Combat Power
Combat power (CP) is a value that games use to determine the overall strength of the account. This takes the power value of your military and economy to determine how strong your colony is as compared to another play. This is an important factor to take in mind when playing the game because you need to know if there are any players in your area that have extremely high combat power because they might be a great potential ally or your worst nightmare.
A player’s combat power doesn’t always tell the full story of how strong they are in terms of the efficiency of their colony’s economy and military. However, having a high CP value will always scare away a lot of potential attackers because they’ll think that you have a powerful base. Powerful alliances also have high CP requirements for joining so you’ll need to have a certain value to be part of those groups and secure your standing in the game.
