I tried playing with this today and got an error warning.
So I did the Error Check, and got the following message:
"Filename must not contain any spaces
crc: 4033dea7"
Looking through the files in the mod folder, it seems only the DM file has a space.
Not sure if it's necessary to fix it or not, but I think it's still worth notifying.

Makes sense the hivemind wouldn't want foreigners intervening so no indies

Ah got it, just caught me off guard since I've never seen a nation that doesn't get indies (even MA Ermor gets em) so I didn't know that was even possible.

They do not get any indie troops, yeah. It's both for flavor and to offset some of their other advantages.

Do the vespikans not get indie troops?

Well no problem the two Gods you added are perfectly suited to building a chalice for late game fixing up of queens anyways. I got lucky and got two adventuring parties around year 6-8 and was just loving the simplicity of moving my thugs in and out of a fort to heal back up while sniping there temples to move in my main army for forts. I do like the no chest slot actually it would be waaay to strong if I could stack the awe giving armours with the blood/fear attribute queens. I as a person just like creating pristine thugs is all I guess lol.

I have to agree with Eldritch Gentleman on this, unfortunately wanting to heal your thugs and not being able to is just part of the Dominions experience. Giant nations really run into this issue. At least the blood casters can heal themselves, though. I'm considering adding a magic helmet-slot item that also gives a bit of body prot to enhance thuggability on units with no chest slot.

Unfortunately, needing but not having a healer is universal to all nations in Dominions, so you must suffer with the rest.

The queens could really do with a healer for this nation, I would thug out my Iron queens but sadly they do sometimes take damage from flying troops interrupting my spell line up, just would be nice to be able to heal them before I unlock construction 9 for the chalice, you could do the same with the ants as there actually are members of the hive that clean/lick the wounded members of the hive to stop infections so I imagine sentient ants/wasps would also do that (giving u a lore reason to ^-^) a nature summon at level 5 conjuration maybe or 6? A queens attendant or something it can be there sole job just the follow a queen around to keep her and her troops ready. I just tend to loose alot of troops to crippled units while moving around.

Small update fixing some unit sizes and gluttony property, which was changed in Dom6. Also reverted some of the HP nerfs I made while porting this mod, as the basic infantry were simply dying too fast for their cost and rarely got to make use of their berserk ability as they typically died in a single hit.

Nice! This was one of my favorite mods for Dominions 5. Glad it got ported over. Now I just need the Valkrin plague kingdom or whatever-it-was-called mod and my favorite custom nation due will be complete.

I'm glad to hear people enjoyed it in the dom5 days. I have another nation that I worked on that I got about half finished. It's been a few years since I've done a lot of pixel art but I have a lot of time on my hands right now so I might take another crack at it.

Oh shit, I loved this way back in the day. I'm glad you're still active in the community. Do you have any plans to expand the Bugverse?

Quick update to fix item slots. Dominions 6 changed how those are defined so all the new units had the wrong item slots.

Played many games with them back in Dom 5, good work.

Lovely spritework coleslaw!

Still a cool concept