Not a very tough lever... Though I was quite intimidated by the opponents' colonies - 2 spiders and 1 wasp each. But the good thing is there are 2 team (they would later fight each other, giving me a gap), and there's enough distance to, at least initially, use some sentries away from the base colonies to tackle incoming spiders.
When it came to attack, my first plan was to go for one of the wasp colonies.. especially considering there was a point to the exact East of the wasp colony where a bazooka could just stand and safely attack. But this never quite worked out well for me. For one, even though I brought a bunch of bazookas, most of them got killed by the quick wasp turret (the sonics had flown off when I was attacking) before any damage was done and the single safe bazooka was taking quite a long time bringing down the colony health. But the final few bars were taking too long, so I brought in one more group and barely finished off the colony.. brought down some bull ants to collect seeds. But, quickly the colony was brought down by neighboring missiles from both sides. This seemed futile as, by now, half my ant colonies were gone too.. And I was nowhere close to getting a spider colony.
So I decided the right approach had to be one where I exploit the initial flurry of units I will have from my many ant colonies and build up an army big enough to directly attack the spider colony. After couple of tries, I realized that it was cheaper to have a bunch of bull ants in the front of the attack wave (they're produced fast and can be the turret-fodder while attacking). The important thing is to Not end up coming in in a line and to form a wall of attack. I brought the ants from below the bottom-right ant colony towards the spider colony; stopped outside the range of the turrets and led them tangentially around the spider colony and then brought them all in to attack the spider colony - sacrificing the bull ants in favor of minimizing attack on the bazookas (attack wave front pic below). I brought down the colony and had enough surviving bazookas to pick up the seeds and constantly defend against the sonic attacks, giving my spider colony time to heal. In the top, at least 2 of my ant colonies were mine and healthy - they were producing bull ants now to overwhelm with numbers. Greens and Yellows were fighting over the other ant colonies. I produced a sniper with bare minimum health and stopped production to let it heal. The sniper was used to kill off sonics before they had a chance to come to attack; and when free, attack the wasp colony too.. Once the spider health was in the yellows, I produced 2 more snipers before letting it rest again.. The snipers brought down the wasp colony.. Ants and snipers picked up the seeds.. Snipers focused on killing off incoming missile attacks. I started producing missiles of my own.. Brought in the missile in some time took over the other spider colony also.. I let it rest.. Now I had a few missiles around the original spider colony.. I led them up through my ant colonies and started attacking the Yellow spider colony.. I had started assault production also by now.. I picked up the seeds using assaults and bull ants and switched the missiles to attacking the Yellow wasp colony.. And then the other yellow spider colony.. It was all pretty easy from this point on.
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