If you want to achieve victory against the warring termites in Empire of the Ants, understanding the Legions at your disposal and knowing how to use them is crucial. If you’re wondering how they work, here’s our handy guide to all the Legions in Empire of the Ants and their upgrades.
How to upgrade all legions in Empire of the Ants
While each nest can only have one legion assigned to it, remember that you can have more than one of that type of legion in total if you wish. In other words, you can have two or three Warrior or Gunner legions on the map at once.
Workers
- Upgrade Costs:
- Level 1: 20 x Food | 2 Rooms
- Level 2: 40 x Food | 2 Rooms
- Level 3: 60 x Food | 2 Rooms
Worker legions are primarily responsible for transporting Wood and Food back to their respective nest, but as a versatile melee-type legion they can provide significant attack power when needed as well. That said, they are strong against Gunner legions but weak against Warrior legionsso if you don’t have them to transport, your best move is to have them flank an enemy Gunner legion.
Soldiers
- Upgrade Costs:
- Level 1: 20 x Food
- Level 2: 40 x Food
- Level 3: 60 x Food
A soldier legions are only responsible for attacking enemy nests and any advancing legions, and they should always be on the frontlines along with any Super Predator legion. They are strong against Labor legions but weak against Gunner legionsso be sure to try to keep them out of range of enemy Gunners. However, if you can upgrade them to the Elite Warrior level, they are almost unstoppable against almost any legion.
Gunners
- Upgrade Costs:
- Level 1: 20 x Food | 2 Rooms
- Level 2: 40 x Food | 2 Rooms
- Level 3: 60 x Food | 2 Rooms
Gunner legions are your essential ranged legion, providing long-range offensive support behind Warriors, Super Predators, and Workers. They are not recommended for melee attacks and must always keep a sufficient distance from the enemy. Technically, they are strong against Warriors and weak against Workers. While legions like Warriors are a traditional red color, Gunner legions are more of a golden color with green abdomens, signifying the acid they shoot at their enemies.
Support
- Upgrade Costs:
- Level 1: 20 x Food | 1 room
Support-type legions are unique because their sole purpose is to provide regenerative support to legions in close proximity. They have no offensive abilities and are weak against all legion types, so sending them into battle can be risky and you need to position them carefully so they don’t get swarmed by any type of enemy legion.
Unlike most other legion types, you can only build one support legion per map, and they cannot be upgraded. If they are taken out in battle, however, you can recover them just like any other legion. Depending on the mission, support legions may include Aphids (most common), a Snailor a Rhinoceros Beetle.
Super Predators
- Upgrade Costs:
- Level 1: 50 x Food | 3 Rooms
The Super Predator legion is unique in that it is only used to attack enemy legions, and is universally strong against all types. These mini-tank beasts are a force to be reckoned with, and can even fight Elite tier legions as long as they continue to have some support. Only one of these legions can be built per map, and depending on the mission they can or from Dor Beetles (seen above) or Rose Chafers (metallic green beetles). Having one of these legions is an absolute must when possible.
Empire of the Ants Legions Guide – Updates & Unlocks
Embarking on strategic missions in Empire of the Ants, you will often find yourself surrounded by allied nests, each needing their own and respective upgrades. legion to help you achieve victory. Legions are specialized ant factions that serve various purposes for either taking down enemy nests or defending their own.
Legions themselves are one of the five different categories of nest upgrades (seen above), and when you select that category at a particular nest, there will be five legion options to choose from:
- Workers
- Warriors
- Gunners
- Aphids
- Super Predators
These options are further subdivided into three different levels, and their availability depends on the tier your nests are currently at. Remember to help increase the level of your allied nests, you must unlock the “Chemistry Lab” (Tier 1) upgrade under the Economy category Unlocking the “Chemical Library” (Tier 2) upgrade in that same category will give you access to all possible updates, including the ‘Elite’ versions of all the legions.
The higher your legion is, the higher their stats are, and it’s important to have powerful legions to fight enemies that are just as powerful. If you send a legion that is too weak against a more powerful enemy, yours will likely lose and disband. You can distinguish the level of a legion by the hovers above that legion’s health bar. If it has one circle, it is a Tier 1 legion. However, if it has three circles it is an Elite, Tier 3 legion.
To create a legion for your nest, they all have a Food cost (The higher the level, the higher the cost) and most of them require that the nest has at least two rooms available Once you have chosen one, it will take a a few minutes for that legion to be fully developed and made available for your use.
If you want or need to speed up the process, select the legion at the bottom of your screen, and press and hold the appropriate button to use more Food to do so. This can drain your resources quickly, though, so use it wisely.
A nest can only house one legion at a time (as seen above), and if you’re looking to command as many as possible, you’ll need to create one at each nest. Also, make sure you have at least the ‘Multiple’ (Tier 2) nest upgrade unlocked, which increases the maximum number of legions you can command with one. The ‘Swarm’ (Tier 3) upgrade will further increase that amount as well.
Remember that your legions are represented by circle symbols on the field, while the enemy’s legions are represented by diamond symbols.
If a Legion is defeated in battle, it will temporarily “dissolve” and take a few minutes to reform. Similar to when you first make a legion, you can use Food to speed up the reformation process and bring them back into battle. The ‘Brevejo’ (Tier 2) upgrade will decrease the recovery food by 30%, so unlocking this at one of your nests (will apply to all legions) is highly recommended when doing harder missions.
Be aware that if you do a mission on a map where your allied nests are divided by a deadly body of water, even if you can find a safe way across yourself, legions assigned to nests on one side of the map. will not cross the water to the other side. Instead, you will have to build another legion on the other side to fight with necessary threats there.
Finally, if you want to change the assigned legion at a nest, you can choose to ‘Destroy’ that legion (press and hold the appropriate button either in the upgrade menu or when targeting the nest remotely) and make a new one.
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