Second Resources War

The Second Resources War was a war fought by the fire ants and the bullet ants against the carpenter ants from 26 April 1999 to 12 July 1999.

## Background

The fire ants, the species defeated by the carpenter ants, the species victorious in the First Resources War, a war which forced them to flee to the Andes, a mountain range which had a slow pace of soldiers and workers and the Pampas, a grassland with good chokepoints needed allies. The fire ants begged the bullet ants, a species which had territorial disputes with the carpenter ants, to create a military alliance, which they did. The fire ants' forces used defenses in depth, which used hillforts and concentric castles in the Andes and the Pampas. The bullet ants' forces used the Fabian strategy, which was a military strategy that used attrition warfare and feints, avoiding pitched battles and frontal assaults in the Paraguay River, a river which was difficult to cross easily.

## Forces

The fire ants' forces had 200 queens, 400 drones, 100,000 soldiers and 200,000 workers, all of them being in Argentina.

The bullet ants' forces had 400 queens, 800 drones, 200,000 soldiers and 400,000 workers, half of them being in Paraguay while half of them being hidden in Nicaragua.

The carpenter ants' forces had 800 queens and drones, 200,000 soldiers and 400,000 workers, all of them being in Brazil.

## War

A part of the fire ants' forces tricked the carpenter ants' forces into attacking the defense in depth, inflicting casualties then using a flanking maneuver. The carpenter ants' forces, with a large force concentration of queens, drones, soldiers and workers, destroyed the defense in depth then encircled the fire ants' forces using speed. The bullet ants' forces knowing that they could never defeat the carpenter ants' forces from just the Fabian strategy, tried to use decapitation, a military strategy that targets leadership. The fire ants' forces, being defeated for now, also knew this and used defeat and detail, a military strategy that uses a force to attack a part of the enemy's forces rather than attacking them all at once. The carpenter ants' forces, being inflicted casualties, retreated to the Amazon Rainforest, a forest which did not have good chokepoints and the Pampas. The fire ants' forces, knowing now is the time to attack, attacked the carpenter ants' forces as they retreated, inflicting additional casualties on them and achieving victory in the Battle of the Andes and the Pampas.

The bullet ants' forces exploited the carpenter ants' forces being tired to use human wave attacks, a military tactic that uses an undefended frontal assault with as many soldiers as possible to engage in close-quarters combat with the remains of the carpenter ants' forces. The carpenter ants' forces, being nearly destroyed from the attack by the bullet ants' forces, desperately fled to the Atlantic and the Pacific coastal plains of Nicaragua, which had good chokepoints. The allies' forces exploited the carpenter ants' forces retreat to attack the Amazon Rainforest, a forest and the Pampas, achieving victory in the Battle of the Amazon Rainforest and the Pampas and generally, the Second Resources War.