Ant Hill

Ant Hills are a nest form of the Virus. They appear in both games and are orange in colour in both instances. Their main purpose is to act as as spawning point for Ants. Ants will generally travel around the Ant Hill where they spawned and collect Souls, bringing them back to the Ant Hill. There a new Ant will be generated.

Strengths and Weaknesses

 * They are not targeted directly by units, the only way to take them out is via explosives.
 * They take a few hits to destroy.
 * The most at any location is the Yard and is the first time the player sees them. Clearing them out of this locations and getting rid of the ants can be troublesome as one or two are located on the mountain-side. This requires Air-Strikes.
 * While the Ants may be harder to spot, the sight of these pretty much means there are ants at this point around them.
 * Because of the Anthills are only guarded by their ants, it is possible to have several squads at once covering each other. Yard in particular has 3 Trunk Ports in their area, if the player grabs one with an Engineer and creates 5 Squads of V.3 or greater they can wipe the Ant Hills out despite the ants with no problem. Simply have 1 squad take out the Ant Hills and the other 4 hold off the Ants.