Antlion Guard



Far larger and stronger, Myrmidont giganticus have command and control over Antlions. Their primary attack is a charging head butt; or simply a head butt if within range of a strikable target. Any objects within the Myrmidont's line of sight are thrown towards enemies.

While traveling along the coast, an encounter ensues with a Myrmidont. After its defeat, a Vortigaunt extracts the aromatic pheropods through a said unhygienic process. The "bug bait" identifies Gordon as a Myrmidont and grants command and control over Antlions. Antlions will swarm wherever a burst pod lands. Pheropods can also be thrown at soldiers temporarily debilitating them when the contents burst. It is not known how thrown pheropods are replaced. It has been theorized that a pherapod would drop a smaller pod off of it and the smaller bugbait would grow.

As Gordon progresses into Nova Prospekt, an Overwatch soldier can be heard saying, "Warning, primary target is, uh, engaged in, uh, command and control tactics with biotics. Repeat: Primary target has tactical C&C over biotics." Its also curious that antlions are absent whenever Antlion Guards are present.

An image caption on the official Episode One site refers to an Antlion Guard seen in a screenshot as an "Ant Lion Queen", although it bears no difference in appearance from other normal ones (Alyx herself simply calls them Antlion Guards). Though this could simply be an error, it may indicate that this particular specimen is a female of the species, or that possibly all Antlion Guards are female. It is interesting to note that there is an unused alternate texture for the Antlion Guard in the Episode One gcf file, giving the creature a blue-color skin. An Antlion Guard with a glowing abdomen, similar to the glowing Antlions mentioned above and below, has also been seen in recent Episode Two media.