Because of all the varients of ants, would they be perfect

>>53109207
Personally, I think an Empire of the Ants style wargame would be awesome, but in terms of modeling it'd be pretty similar.

Maybe either instead basing more human/nonhuman factions off of the different ant species, or having ants as the "humans" in a setting with other bugs as the rarer, more exotic species.
>Wasps as elves.
>Termites as dwarves.
>Beetles as giant mounts or drakes.

>little black ant is their technical name

Cute

>>53109207
empire building game where you play as amazon ants

>raid nearby ant colonies of a similair species
>they can't detect us because so similar
>few are killed, but if we have to our jaws are designed to drill into their brains and dispatch them
>we raid their colony, steal their young and bring them back to our own colony
>raise the young as our own - they can't tell the diference
>get them to work for us, and feed us
>our jaws are specifically made for anti-ant, so we can't actually feed ourselves - rely on the slave ants to grind food and feed us

Amazon ants are fucking hardcore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1fl0DyMc4

>>53109354
So SimAnt sans the lawnmowers?

>>53109207
http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/It_Came_From_Red_Alert!

>>53109279
>>53109207
Yeah ants rarely war with each other. The weaker hive just relocates slightly further away.

TERMITES on the other hand they go full Dalek on and will fight to the last woman.

>>53109453
>Dalek Termites

I've never known I wanted something so much in my life.

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>>53109207
I know of two eletronic strategy games based on this OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8n4cAzKFyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zza2T05R-U

So you're not alone on this.

Nature has exploding ants, nomad ants, acid-spewing ants, shield-head ants... the gameplay potential is there.

>not running a Paraponera clavata army

>>53109543
I knew there was a bunch of different ant types, but this picture is just unsettling.

>>53109453
>>53109483
yep most metal thing i've seen when i was a kid. Thermites would dig in and leave only their heads poking out. Anything that gets close gets shredded. Like my finger when i tried to poke it.

Saw them ants dig on top of the holes in order to drag the thermies out and rip them apart.

And there was this one time i've witnessed big soldier ants let themselves to be swarmed so their comrades could raid the enemy nest.

>>53109453
https://youtu.be/EnULSmNbCuo
Related

>>53111413
>Thermites

Well, I know what I'm putting in my next sci-fi game I run. Thermite spitting Termites.

>>53111463
Add rending mandibles and acidic blood in ot.

>>53109207
>varients

it's spelled variANTs

>>53109483
/tg/ had a bug people setting with some decent art a while back

>>53109207
>Ant Biology
What ant is that?

Also
>pic about ants, is not for ants
One job, OP.

>>53109279
>Wasps as elves
But wasps warn you that they're dangerous. Elves lull you into a false sense of security and awe.