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Empires of the Undergrowth: Exploding Ants is an expansion that adds two species, one of ants and one of termites, with new units that can use autothysis: voluntarily exploding and sacrificing themselves to attack enemies. The species can be used across all game modes, including Freeplay Mode and Custom Games, brought into campaign levels with Remix mode, and unlocked for defending your Story Mode formicarium.

Explosive tactics

Autothysis is a powerful defensive option, but each explosion costs a life. You can use it as a last resort against intruders that might overwhelm the colony, while weighing the need to replace lost soldiers or divert workers from their nest duties. The new units and their abilities are:

• C. explodens workers: these workers have no special abilities.
• C. explodens regular soldiers: sacrifice themselves in an explosion that damages nearby enemies and briefly slows them. Upgrades can increase damage and blast radius, add chain explosions, or leave a damaging pool of liquid.
• C. explodens major soldiers: take reduced damage from frontal attacks and can hunker down, becoming stationary while increasing the armour of nearby allies.
• N. taracua soldiers: use asymmetric snapping to deal heavy damage to enemies underground, or stun surface opponents while flinging themselves away from harm.
• N. taracua workers: develop the ability to explode if kept alive long enough. Blue laccase spots on their abdomens create a toxic mixture during autothysis, and their explosions become more dangerous with age. Upgrades can speed up their explosive development, increase the rate at which explosions cause damage, or extend the duration of damage or confusion afterward.

New campaign levels

The expansion adds two levels inspired by the main campaign. Return to The Harvest to eradicate a fire ant colony, then revisit the rainforests of the Front Line and try to survive several nights of battle.