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I had situation where a new enemy nest including Worms spawned at a range where the Worms could spit on my laser turrets (common quality), but my laser turrets were slightly too far away to shoot the Worms. I think this is unfair. I posted here instead of bug reports as this feels more like an oversight and not a code malfunction. This happened several versions ago in Space Age that I can't remember the exact version number, so this may have been fixed without my knowledge already.

The solution is artillery. This is an incentive to hurry up and unlock it, “or else”. But in the meantime, you could line the dangerous range with landmines, that should prevent anything from being built there. And of course remotely clear close nests using a tank or spidertron, whichever you have.