This level in itself is not very difficult. After you kill your first Funnel Web Spider. Formica sanguinea Slave Maker ants will pillage your colony every 2-3 minutes, increasing in their numbers each wave. To beat this level normally, is to raise and or upgrade 50 of each soldiers and workers. Which if you remembered the strategy from 1.1 New Home to move between increasing sizes of enemy groups, is pretty much a cakewalk. Even after a bit of trial and error.

That said Introductions are underway!

Hello hello, after about 30 real attempts (and 60 immediate restarts for bad tile placement and removing)
I was finally able to get the 'NOPE' achievement.

Which is invariably a real stressful time crunch. looking at you 3.1...
Not so much for difficulty, but micromanaging your movements and your memory of the keyboard shortcuts.

What this achievement entails is
Kill 10 Funnel Web Spiders in 6 minutes and beat the level on Hard difficulty

Sounds scary? Maybe even impossible? Fear not, for this achievement is not so hard!

Remember that your keyboard shortcuts are a LIFE SAVER, you save precious seconds with using dedicated keys instead of faffing about with your mouse.

By default the shortcuts are as follows

T = workers
Y = soldiers
U = majors not used for subjugation, just a good idea to remember the keys.
V = food tiles
E = speed tiles
N = upgrade tiles
Z = Disable Gather Very important
X = Disable Attack Equally as important to avoid unnecessary slaughter

Right off the bat, move your 7 nursery ants to collect the seeds directly North next to your nest entrance.



dig out to the North East and South of your Queen, free up that easy food,



and within that tunneled out area, place down soldiers ASAP.



You could spam workers, since their cost is only 20 compared to soldiers 50, but you want damage more so than numbers for your first 2 or 3 spiders. I personally tried spamming workers, but always failed due to time-loss on the 8th Funnel Web

You will be much better off with a half group of 7 to make quick work of your first Segestria florentina Funnel Web Spider. However, be prepared for the Slave Maker scout to show up within a few seconds after you kill your first Funnel Web.

DO NOTE FOR FUNNEL WEB CULLING, TO TURN OFF FOOD GATHER


You can turn it back on once the Funnel Web is dead. Grab the food and turn off the food gathering as soon as your ants clear out that area.

Alright, with that tangled web of information out of the way. Let us begin.

Directly West of your Nursery/Queen dig out that first spider nest. Don't worry if you're seeing quick loss, your soldiers will replenish quickly as long as you remember to move your nursery workers back to the nursery.



After that first spider victory, place down 5 or 6 food tiles.



dig out the mortifying monstrosity to the East of your Queen.
Take out that spider and continue to build soldiers;



head up to the spider hidden away to the North West of your nest. (Apologies, I forgot to get a screenshot for this one during my run, so I used one from a quick pop into the game to at least get something for direction.) :c



Taking care not to dig into the far West, where a Devil's Coach Horse Larvae is waiting. THIS WILL MAKE YOU FAIL too much time will be wasted here. Maybe you can get the achievement this way, but I had no luck.

By this point the Slave Makers should have arrived, ignore them. More than likely your 'reborn' soldiers will cross paths with them and hold off their attack.

If you were successful. Fantastic! You're 3 spiders down with only 7 to go!

Now the next part is the real stressful part. You will lose numbers, very fast. By this point you should have or almost have a full 19 set of soldiers, and also a good start on workers. The workers are strictly for out of the way food gathering. Remember to build your brood chambers out of the way of the nest entrance, this delays the Slave Makers from taking away your colony. Generally a good strategy even if you aren't going for challenges or achievements.

Remember that second Funnel Web you cleared? Time to take out her sister directly below the now ravaged nest.



You should lose maybe 2 or 3 maybe 4 ants, but steamroll this spider. That's 4 down, in roughly 2.30 or 2.50 minutes.

Next head left once again, another raiding party is here. Bummer... Again just ignore them. Take out the 2 Funnel Webs.



This one is a bit dicey, if you're unlucky and trigger both spiders at once. If you were valiant in your efforts, you just cleared 6 of those bloody spiders. at a time of hopefully 3.30-3.40 minutes.

Head down to where you are building up your soldiers and take out those 2 within the 'V' shape.



That's a spectacular 8 annoying arachnids down, with only 2 to go. at a favorable time of 4.20 -4.40 minutes

The raiding party is back uh oh all ants!



The raiding party has left, and with them they have taken 10% of the black ant brood...

Head up North East one last time and take out the 2 Eight Legged Freaks that start towards the winding path.



In a most glorious time of 5.20-5.40 minutes. 20-40 seconds to spare! Now that wasn't so hard right... Right?!

If your movements were steadfast and you didn't blow a vessel in your brain,



you should have a popup that can be easy to miss, even if it's in the center of the screen saying ACHIEVEMENT REQUIREMENTS MET:NOPE



CONGRATULATIONS! You essentially netted yourself 'NOPE'

Continue the level as you would normally, albeit kinda fast, because the raiding party waves have ramped up quite a bit. But I believe in you! After beating the level the end screen should present you with a shiny new achievement!

This is my first guide and my grammar and sentence structure could use some work, but I really hope I was able to help anyone and everyone looking to get some bragging points for beating some of EoTU's mind-numbing achievements.

In the future I may do more guides if this one is well received, by all means. Please give constructive criticism I always want to improve the work I put out!

P.S. I really do love spiders

CHEERS!