Ant bridge

[Midonik]

Idea by @samuelch
This tech would allow basic antmen units to transform into and back to a bridge I remember watching an document about ants who would make bridges/rafts with their bodies, I think that's what he was going for.

Now that I think about it, this would be impossible with simple transform, as long as antmen can't enter water (which I wouldn't like). So instead the antmen should summon a ant bridge unit, "destroying" themselves, but then the bridge can destroy itself to create antmen it was made from (oof, multiple bridge JSONs required, if there's more than one unit able to do this), and both abilities have a range of 1. Abilities should also probably have a cooldown.

This seem a bit complicated to make. It would be simpler if antmen would just summon bridges at cost of their lives, not turning back, but that would simply not be worth it I think.

[Midonik]

After rethinking, the best way to do this is to have the bridges be able to go on ground and then turn back into units.
The summon way I was thinking about wouldn't allow to keep the hp of the unit.

[Anchar]

So are these separate units or is this some kind of skill for basic ants?

[Midonik]

Well, both - its an ability for basic antmen to turn into antmen bridges. For the image, we only really need one for the antmen bridge. Try to draw there antmen laying and holding eachother.

[godOfKings]

In this game, 1 unit of antman contains many antman soldiers, wat about instead of bridge, its a transformation to a raft with 0 atk, 1 speed on land, and 1 carry capacity that can carry a medium sized vehicle/ living unit, they r not tiny ants but humanoid antmen so they can have more strength to b able to carry a vehicle wen they join together

That way u can ignore all the unnecessary complications while also being useful special feature of insects over other races due to their cheaper mobility of ground units on water terrains

[Badnorth]

I like that idea.

[Midonik]

Maybe the raft is a better idea indeed. 1 speed for sure.

[kingofgalaxies]

Cool idea, the one with antmen rafts.