How do you beat Super Boss fights with no losses?

[lostkiwi]

Thanks for the posts guys.

DGDobrev, you raise an iteresting idea that I have never considered, which is to have only a single stack that I can concentrate on keeping buffed.

As you mentioned, I might be able to work it with a single stack of Trolls, since they regerate their health every round. So long as I keep Stone Skin / Magic Spring and possibly even Divine Armour, maybe I can restrict each round of damage to under 780. At worst I can only be attacked by 4 stacks of spiders plus the boss.

It would be a long fight, however if they were able to survive each round, I wouldn't have any mana issues due to keeping Level 3 Magic Spring up on my stack.

I've probably only got enough leadership for 9 or 10 of them at the moment, which may not be enough. Maybe I'll come back to the boss later.

Thanks again

[Mystic Phoenix]

Another tactic which worked for me on Impossible Warrior at Level 30 (could have worked some levels before) was to bring Dryads and Royal Thorns (along with Paladins, Red and Green Dragons) to the spider fight.

With Time Back you have 3 huge stacks of spawned thorns, the first wave of spiders are nor problem to kill, so you can have 6 stacks of thorns very soon. With some thorns attacking the spider, additional spiders are generated not too often, and in case there are you might have no problems to kill them (attack with thorns first, so you take no retaliation) and so you can spawn even more thorns.
My troops didn't cause any damage to the Giant spider itself (red dragons used their breath ability from time to time), just leaned back and watched the show.

[Zechnophobe]

You can likely do the spider now, but not the frog. You are going to have a hard time though with your current lineup against spider because of his retaliation against ranged units.

General strategy against spider: Do not attack mandibles, or you'll get poisoned seriously bad. Attack with one stone skinned tank on each side of him, and use other 5 stacks to kill summons. Keep mana up, and health of tanks (Ress if necessary) and you should do okay.

If you are having a hard time killing spider summon stacks fast enough, it means you are trying this too early.

[Hento]

I think the best lineup for frog and spider would be Repair and Guard Droids(20% physical and 80% poison resistance,and 1 stack of trolls).
You can just phantom Repair Droids to repair them. Also I think in every game you have an item that reduced leadership for droids by 20%, which equals 20% more damage.

[Zechnophobe]

The engineer badge isn't ALWAYS there, but as the only (maybe one of two) level 1 dwarven items, it is very common.

Also, Frog and spider rarely will actually do casualties against good sized and managed armies, so I don't think ressurrections strats are the best way to go.

[BB Shockwave]

Khatu,the frog and the spider are easy to beat. Just make sure you leave one summoned stack alive, keep blinding/slowing it and use Rage to Mana spells to resurrect your losses.

With the Driller, even easier. Just inflict enough damage so that he will retreat next turn. In the next turn, he won't attack you but collapse the ceiling. Rinse and repeat.

Bhaal is another matter. I tried numerous times before finding the correct strategy... his area attacks and summonings will always damage you, but they are so-so bearable. However, never get hit by his sword. What I did was (I was using a warrior with a Lizardman army) to only take one stack of Gorguls with me. First round, I casted Phantom on them and sent them in first, then used both stacks to attack Bhaal through his summoned units - due to the two space attacks, he will not retaliate. Then, just have Bill Gilbert's units take the damage, and only attack Bhaal with your phantoms. Use Rage to mana for resurrection/time back and put lot of protective spells on your troop. Items that increase fire resistance help a lot too.

[tetleytea]

I just beat the Frog on turn 1. LOL!!!! My stone skinned Knights hit him and he retaliated for 43 damage. My pallies critical hit him and he was dead.

Spider was just as hilarious. He summoned his spiders, the Giants stomped and there were like 4 still alive. Turn 2, the boss was dead, but because of the 4 spiders still alive I was able to resurrect my 3 fallen Knights.

[Elias_Maluco]

Im yet to understand this whole "no-losses" trend. What´s so wrong about loosing some units once in a while?