Empires of the Undergrowth - 4.1 Cold Blood - Impossible /w Raise the Alarm Achievement

Raise the Alarm: Beat "Cold Blood" on impossible difficulty after alerting both enemy colonies to your presence within the first 5 minutes.
Firstly, apologies for the delayed recording. My shadowplay keeps stopping recording for some reason. And after I had a good start I didn't want to restart just for the first 10 minutes of lost recording. I chose vigorous fire ants by the way, they are beneficial with speed boost and damage boost vs the big-headed ants. I've found no success in using pervasive on the many tries I did.
For reference to missing recording at the start, I used a similar strategy to my impossible run which can be seen in this video: • Empires of the Undergr...
Secondly: Some pre-amp achievement hunting before update 1 on 7th June.
Thirdly, TIPS: Collect and protect aphids, I can't stress this enough, they are your go-to food source. If you get bad spawns with beetles/spiders in the start, just restart the level until those spawns aren't in your way.
The problem with "raise the alarm" is that once you alert your presence to the Big-Headed Ant (Pheidole) colony they will start sending their super majors(This happens in the normal playthrough also, just not nearly as quickly). This is a pain to deal with early game as they do a crazy amount of damage and their stun is really annoying, a single super major can wipe out 10 fire ant soldiers without much of a problem. The key tactic I've found is quantity is better than quality, at least for the early game until you have saved up enough food to do the double upgrade and get two ants per tile at level 3.
You should not have a problem dealing with the Little Black Ants (Monomorium), they are mostly easy to contend with.
Once you have amassed a large enough force you should look at taking out the other colonies. You will skyrocket in colony size once you have done so.
Make sure to pay attention to toad arrivals at night, they can sneak up on you and that will be the end of the run if they kill off your nest workers. 100-150 upgraded soldiers should suffice for taking out the bullfrog.
Good luck!
Empires of the Undergrowth playlist: • Empires of the Undergr...

[@afnantcd541]

Tq so much, I've been using your vids as a guide for my achievement hunting and truthfully im glad that there are here before 1.0 release keep up the good work

[@nehimaZA]

You're welcome. Thanks!. Yeah I started uploading the harder achievements because I couldn't find any others on CZcams. So I figured, why not be one of the first.