Getting past the bloody spider.

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Originally Posted by Mattias

Level 17 Warrior.

9/14 alchemists (no more to buy).
78/78 bowmen.
12/12 Jarls.
65/65 Berzerkers.
32/32 Axthrowers.

Anyone give me a bit of a hand? Really would appreciate it.

Warrior here too, took me a couple tries to figure it out.

Put your ranged units in reserve and hire two more stacks of melee units. I also first brought two stacks of ranged units to that fight and found them constantly being tied up in melee by the spiders.

I was able to replace them with about 20 warrior maidens and a couple jotuns, and finished that boss fight easily. In my game there were a couple huts at the high mountain ridge that you can only reach via flying horse, and I think one of them was labeled house of jotun in the same map with the cave of frozen tears. Jotuns are 780hp melee tanks, and one of the huts also had trolls for sale, so you might find some more heavy melee units.

I just used a stack to stay in the middle of most spider spawns while rest of my units bum rushed the boss. Took some losses but it's doable.

Also, you might want to switch your ranged stacks back in after that fight, and replenish your troops, because there will be another more conventional encounter with a npc hero shortly after. Put your reserved stacks back in town if you want to use them later, because a certain event will wipe out your entire army. I didn't expect that, and lost my stacks of maidens and jotuns.