Getting past the bloody spider.

[Rubaniboi]

Learn the warrior skill frenzy...

then try to kill as many spider stacks as possible without attacking the boss...
when you have killed sufficient stacks, the attack of all your troops will be tremendously high

then start attacking the boss to make each attack do as much damage as possible. use defence runes to reduce damage from the spider boss's retaliation

YUP GOOD LUCK!

[Mattias]

Originally Posted by Rubaniboi

Learn the warrior skill frenzy...

then try to kill as many spider stacks as possible without attacking the boss...
when you have killed sufficient stacks, the attack of all your troops will be tremendously high

then start attacking the boss to make each attack do as much damage as possible. use defence runes to reduce damage from the spider boss's retaliation

YUP GOOD LUCK!

Thanks for the replies.

Tried killing the baby spiders till round 20. Not very effective as the boss continues to pump out higher and higher strength baby spiders. I've got level 2 frenzy but with baby spider batches coming in drops at 200 strong, it takes its toll. In just two rounds from attacking the boss (it did go more zippy, but at a heavy cost) I lost half my Royal snakes (tried them out since I found critical damage happened more with them) and 1 of my jotuns. I'm still making no real progress. Boss also spits out that goo which does 3-400 damage at will. Nowhere is selling trolls I'm afraid.

[lowsx]

Use Vikings and Berserkers. Make them berserk when fighting spider. They will hit huge damage to the spider (> 2000 damage).

Did not use much spells (I am a skad). Using this strategy, I got the achievement - killing the spider in less than 15 rounds.

[Mattias]

I had to cheat. I just couldn't do it any other way. I tried for over 2 hours (plus made an account here, so I feel it a tad justified).

Here's what I did:

shift + ~ key to bring the menu up during the game. I had the bear warrior chicks in group one. I did 'doublyarmy 1' so I had 38 or so of those ladies. I only had enough leadership for 19. When the battle started....

The bosses won't fight anything that's over your leadership limit. So she basically beat down the boss while the rest of my ragtag crew fought off the babies. Yet the babies went for her too, so when the boss spider died she was down to 24 ladies. Just killed off a few extras and the battle was won.

Feels good.

Originally Posted by lowsx

Use Vikings and Berserkers. Make them berserk when fighting spider. They will hit huge damage to the spider (> 2000 damage).

Did not use much spells (I am a skad). Using this strategy, I got the achievement - killing the spider in less than 15 rounds.

[coRex]

i had some issues with this spider too... (warrior - impossible)

waiting and killing those spider stacks does not work for me... because the stacks become higher and higher...

so i tryed the boss with a different lineup...
polar bears, ancient bears (with stone skin huge defense and they do some good dmg - especially with the warrior skill double dmg - you have to be a little bit lucky)
sea dogs (for some good aoe dmg against those anoying spiders)
canoneer (you can use any ranged i guess, but these can take some hits from spiders and still do good)
vikings, berserker (for some insane crits and attacks)

i tryed to kill as many spiders in every round, but i also tryed to focus on the boss and hit him at least 2 times every round...

i hope this helps!

[Zechnophobe]

Skald, hard. I did all previous content before fighting him, and was level 20 or 21 when I fought him, with 22/22 Jarls (for comparison)

I used Jarls, Soothsayers, Royal Snakes, Battle Maidens, Jotun's.

I used Valkyrie to give more leadership (900) and stomped the spider fast enough to get the achievement.

I think the problem you have is that your troops look very weak. Axe throwers and Berserkers really don't cut it that far into the game. Need some stuff with higher damage and health.

[xhan]

Did it with a lvl17 Soothsayer. After 2 failed attempts I killed it on the 3rd.

Jarls
Warrior Maidens
Slingers
Assassins
Skalds

What did the trick was a change in tactics. All my troops only focused on killing the small spiders as soon as possible - except for the Jarls. The Jarls got Stoneskin+Hell's Breath+Persistence (amazing underrated synergy with skalds, made my buffs last 9 turns!) and meleed the spider. Her counterattacks only dealt about 50-100 dmg this way and he kept hitting for about 1K.

The trick with skalds is to FIRST buff your unit manually, then use their ability. It will almost always cast persistence on the unit that has multiple buffs.

No other troop except the Jarls attacked the giant spider to avoid counterattacks, save for a few spears from the Maiden. I spent the turns hacking away small spiders and casting flame arrows on the spider. Took about 20 turns, lost around 30% of my army.

[taraboste]

Originally Posted by Mattias

I lost half my Royal snakes (tried them out since I found critical damage happened more with them)

using snakes vs spider boss ??? very smart...
never thought about poison resistance?

Originally Posted by Mattias

Nowhere is selling trolls I'm afraid.

search for a cave in the snowy mountains on Vestlig (the north side i think) accessible only by air from the sea... (it's kindda hidden)

[gempepaine]

Originally Posted by taraboste

using snakes vs spider boss ??? very smart...
never thought about poison resistance?

Royal Snakes does physical damage.