30 ants is a strong commitment during a game jam but I enjoyed the game enough to push through!
The trouble with mixing strategy and Match3 games is that there's so much luck involved in the generation of the board. Especially so if you have four players all using the same one, the natural instinct of setting up future combos becomes a detrimental playstyle. It seems that the CPU opponents go for random combinations rather than focusing on what they actually need, so their odds of success are adequately lowered.
Watching my ants scurrying around to the right of the board was a nice, and necessary, touch to keep a focus on the ultimate objective. It does naturally make me wonder what they're all doing, though I suppose having them go out to gather resources on their own would tip the balance even further into a 'rich get richer' sort of snowball effect.