Arthropods: Ants & Bees

Busy bees or active ants, who will you use to build the winning colony?

Ants and bees are in the family of arthropods who play the main characters in this board game. With the contents of this box, you can play no less than four different games. Strategically building your colony using hexagon-shaped tiles is central to all of them. However, each game has its own rules that determine the level of difficulty.

Game Description

Below is a brief description of the four variants.

Happy Honey Beez

This game is the easiest of the four. In Happy Honey Beez, each player starts with a queen and three workers in hand and connects one to four hexagon tiles to the board each turn. With these tiles, you try to build a beehive to score points.

Additionally, you put your workers to work collecting pollen on the meadow tiles and then converting it into honey in a honey chamber. This way, you can also score points.

Knights in Buzzing Armor

This game continues where Happy Honey Beez leaves off. The honey produced by the workers is now also needed to care for an egg and thus expand your bee colony.

Furthermore, drones are also present to defend against enemy bees or to sting as a last resort.

As a result, the bees on the board become increasingly important to thwart your opponents or score extra points yourself.

Antropolis

This starter variant of the ants is slightly more difficult than the bees. Although a similar game mechanism is used, it is a completely different game. Here too, you win by scoring the most points, but this can be done by building both nests and tunnels. There is also a greater variety of hexagon tiles, and you can connect or buy multiple tiles in a turn.

Worker ants collect food on forest tiles for this purpose, but they are also needed to maintain constructed tunnels. Of course, the queen is needed to score points by both building tunnels and claiming nests.

Supersize Colony

This is the most difficult variant in Arthropods, and you use all the ants for it. Unlike the bees, you don’t need to hatch ants from eggs to use them. When you feed a larva, you can immediately exchange it for a soldier or worker.

As in Antropolis, workers are needed to collect food, but they are also essential in caring for your larvae. The soldiers ensure that your workers stay safe, but you also need them for mating.

My Story Behind Arthropods

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