and as for ant strategy... go as fast as hell, kill the roaches, and take the middle before the beetles have the chance, remember your speed against the beetles is 3/1 ratio ... gather enough troops for the middle, make few towers to kill of the beetles that defend their colonies if you want a fast ending and you should prevail
DiM... the towers go out if any colony in the range of the tower gets lost... kinda like an explosion... so what you need to do is,(beetle strategy) make about 3-4 towers next to each ant colony and 2 slowdown-towers so the attack-towers have the chance to actually hit something, and before you know it, voïla you got yourself a happy ending