Mravenci

Lead your colony through its eternal struggle for dominance over the others. Explore the garden, build your nest, care for larvae, raise specialised worker ants and attack enemy animals, supported by a diligent colony ready to fight as one. Develop the colony’s skills, construct rooms and accomplish deeds to help your nest thrive among the others. Ants is a strategic, interactive game featuring area control on the map, development of your own player board and more than 150 unique cards that allow you to create highly varied combinations of effects. Each player begins with one of several unique queen tiles, which strongly influence their strategy and the way they work with the game’s interconnected systems. During the game, guide your colony through cycles of growth, exploration, nest building and combat with enemies as you seek dominance in the garden ecosystem. On your turn, perform one of six main actions: digging, exploring, gathering, hatching, playing cards, or playing a card and defeating an enemy. You may also perform any number of free actions during your turn to increase the colony’s efficiency. Main actions require specialised ants from your colony, and the number used, from one to four, determines the action’s strength and impact. You can expand your nest with room tiles, explore new hexagonal terrain, reveal resource cubes and enemy tiles, or place gatherer ants that create connected gathering paths across the garden. The heart of the game is managing the colony’s life cycle. On your development tile, track three stages—eggs, larvae and ants—with three specialisations in each: diggers, explorers and gatherers. Wild ants act as universal units that can replace any specialisation. When you perform the hatching action, you resolve deeds, trigger development effects, feed your larvae with food cubes and advance the life cycle. Nest building is also important: place room tiles carefully in an attempt to fill entire nest areas. Whenever you complete area I, II or III, you gain a star, one of the main sources of victory points. The garden board becomes a living game space as exploration reveals enemies and resources, while