Another factor with the soldier trophies that is important is having the queen resummoned and kept alive so you can farm royal jelly; until further notice, the queen fight is the only renewable source of royal jelly currently available. This is critical for anyone wishing to maintain a mage build long term in the current state of the game.

Hopefully the devs will either change infested mines to respawn their jelly piles after a few days, OR even better give us a new beehive analogue that can passively generate more jelly each day.

One can dream...