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At 10 HP/sec:
* Wounded units needed many hours to recover;
* Regen mostly mattered over very long times.

At 100 HP/sec:
* Shields refill in tens of minutes, not hours.
* Body damage noticeably heals over the course of a battle.

That means the swarm can:
* Rotate wounded units out of the front,
* Let them regen behind tank walls or in safer areas,
* Then send them back later in much better condition.

So instead of a one-way attrition on their side, you get:

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===== Before, if you hammered a direction and then shifted focus: =====
* That sector would stay damaged for a while.
* You could “soften it up” and then exploit later.

Now:
* If you don’t keep ongoing pressure,
* Their shield + body regen will: - Patch up a lot of the shallow and mid-level damage, - Make that front look fresh again after a while.

So strategically:
* You lose the ability to say “we bled them here earlier, this side is still weak.”
* You must treat every front as potentially refreshed if you haven’t kept it under fire.

===== Devour already gives: =====
* Big instant heals,
* Growth,
* Multiplication.

Regen adds:
* Constant “background healing” on everyone.

So now:
* Devour deals with big chunks of missing HP,
* Regen smooths out the rest over time.

That means any unit that escapes your kill-zone:
* Gets devour if possible,
* Gets passive regen regardless,
* And becomes much harder to permanently wear down unless you atomize it.