A group of ant scientists has used Age of Empires 2’s scenario editor as part of a study into the strength of complex battlefields in aiding stronger soldi✤ers against larger armies in animal warfare, publishing the results in a .

As it turns out, the trick 🎶that Spartan-led allied Greek states used against the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae – that 300 film with Gerard Butler, if you’d prefer – works just as well for ants looking to defend themselves from others. That is, unless humans destroy their habitat. 

As YouTuber Spirit of the Law sums up below, the scientists💮 were keen to look into the conflict between two species of ants in Australia. The local meat ant – big, bold, the good gals – have been clashing with the invasive Argentine ant – small, annoying, and just everywhere – and losing despite their size. 

There are several steps to the study. One had the researchers setting up scenarios in Age of Empires 2 where stronger units clash withꦓ weaker, more numerous ones. When fought out in the open, quantity wins the day; when the teꦗrrain is narrowed and made more complex, quality triumphs. 

The scientists then recreated those scenarios with the ants themselves rather than pixel-y mꦏen and found much about the same. The problem with relating that to the real world, though, is that gentrification is flattening numerous battlefields these ant wars are playi🍨ng out on. The effects of that aren’t great for the meat ant, and people, too, as relatively harmless wildlife species are replaced with more annoying sorts. Basically, Age of Empires 2 teaches us that we we'll all be okay if we just let the ants do the strategy from 300.

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