How to deal with the drill mech?

[oceanskie]

Awesome, I'll give the troll strategy a try first as i remember having half a stack sitting in Debir.

Thanks all.

Edit: just finished the fight with zero loss using TemjinGold's troll strategy. Used Titan Armour (+10 def) and Ancient Knowledge (+50% exp)

[ivra]

The Troll strategy is probably the easiest...

I just made it on impossible warrior with more than one stack. The trick was to use max 4 stacks, so that there never were two of my stacks in the same row - that makes it too tempting for the driller to take out the big gun and shoot everyting on that column. Although my tank with stoneskin will manage, my poor support stack will loose around 1/4th of its size... My setup was Paladins and Knights as tanks (Stoneskin3 on both) + Inquisitors and Shamans as support. I was level 34 and had no Turn Back Time, so I needed the driller to summon some Repair Droids. Luckily it did so in the third position. I kept a small portion of the Repair Droids alive and gave them space so that they could stand in a corner and shoot (they would die immediately if they did a melee attack against any of my troops). Afther the driller was killed I could gather around the Paladins and resurrect my troops. I needed the Phantom spell also since the ressurection power of the Inquisitors and Paladins alone was not enough to recover every loss.

Conclusion:
Do not fight with more than 4 stacks in the driller fight.

[tetleytea]

I beat Driller with no loss by using Berserker. My Berserked pallies were doing 10k a pop. Whenever you knock him into the next phase he won't retaliate, plus the next turn you know he's going to do the tunnel collapsing thing. Just make sure your ranged units aren't in those slots and he basically wastes that turn on nothing. A lvl 2 Dispel on my pallies, and the only thing I had to resurrect was the pallies themselves.

[DGDobrev]

That is a good tactic for normal difficulty, well done The problem is that on impossible difficulty the boss has a total of 98K hp (1+2+3 position) and using 1 tank +4 ranged units will make them prone to a gun shot (which is the highest chance attack for the boss if there are 2 units in the same line), which is highly undesirable...