This was the level winning which made me want to record my game-play, or at least write down the strategies to win. This was extremely frustrating for quite a long time because I could not even think along the lines that would lead to the right strategy.
Spoiler warning - try out the game before reading the right strategy that I found working:
We're the Red team. I had a Spider colony (& 2 scorpion colonies too). Usually, owning a spider colony makes everything so easy. But in this case, I was putting all my time and effort into desperately defending the spider colony from the yellow scorpions and the blue wasps. The usual strategy of leaving a bunch of snipers to defend was not prossible because the spider colony was opening right into the mouth of the yellow scorpions and the snipers were getting bleeding health too fast.. And I needed missiles towatds the sides of the colony to even keep up with the spear gun scorpions who stood just outside the reach of spider colony turrets.. And the incoming sonics made things worse. I wasted my time on this defense and my other scorpion colonies were now bleeding health. I knew spiders were key and without missiles, conquering any scorpion colony would be very difficult. So I could not think outside the box of keeping the spider colony. This was the wrong strategy.. I could not attack the scorpion colony - scorpion colonies are the most resilient and have the longest base defense - equal to the reange of missile spiders, but only in the Northern horizon. Missiles can safely attack scorpion colony from below (180 degree range of attack below the horizontal like through the center of the scorpion colony). So I tried pulling couple of missiles left and down to find a spot, but because of the bay of water, there was no spot where missiles could safely stand and attack the scorpion colony. The only place left was on the land bridge leading to the blue wasp colony, but this meant a pretty long walk through the range of attack of the scorpion colony, which wan't survivable.
This brought me to my second strategy - try and conquer the scorpion colony from the bottom-right. To make this journey, my missiles would have to take down the blue and yellow ant colonies (would take time) and by the time the missiles reached the home base of the Southern red scorpion colony, the home spider colony would usually pop... unless I actively work hard to protect it, still it would be very low in health - but in this case, my missiles may go astray. But somehow, I pulled it through once and brought down the scorpion colony, and I managed to collect the seeds of the spider colony which had just popped. But now, I had 2 very fragile colonies and very few resources to successfully defend them, and they were under constant attack.And I lost.
Trying this strategy again, I brought the missiles to the Southern base scorpion colony. Then I realized that maybe I should just attack and conquer the blue spider colony which was pausing some threat to my scorpion colony as it was below the horizon of the scorpion colony and missiles could attack. This turned out to be the right strategy:
So start producing ninjas and missiles and bazookas. Keep the missiles safe from incoming scorpion turret attacks. But keep them on the sides to defend the spider colony... until you have 5-6 missiles. Then forget about the spider colony, go right and bring down the blue ant colony (let our ninjas from pick up the seeds).. then bring down the yellow ant colony (again, let our ninjas from pick up the seeds). Let the missiles bring down the blue spider colony (ninjas can stand guard). Now, just go up from there, take over the 3 wasp colonies with ninjas and missiles... and then the yellow ant and beetle colonies on top. Interestingly, my red ant colony stayed healthy and defended itself with no supervision till now. Now, I didn't have enough missiles to easily bring down the now yellow (originally blue) wasp colony and the yellow spider colony. So, instead I started on expanding from below (had already started producing missiles from the spider colony (bottom-right) I'd conquered. I took the missiles and brought down the yellow scorpion colony from below and then conquered the disputed original spider colony (was under constant attack and mostly down). Then I took the ninjas and scorpions up and took over the wasps, and the yellow spider colony. Then I let some ninjas go and occupy the bottom-left blue wasp colony.
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