Urgent help needed

[Kel]

Originally Posted by Harakiri

I actually think the fight is very very unfair for mages.

As a mage the fight is also not really difficult. You just need a couple of hard hitting melee units. I used a stack of polar bears and Berserkers. Always attack the big spider with the melee units, the other 3 unit stacks attack the little spiders. Don't use range attacks against the big spider to avoid the web.

[Harakiri]

Originally Posted by Kel

As a mage the fight is also not really difficult. You just need a couple of hard hitting melee units. I used a stack of polar bears and Berserkers. Always attack the big spider with the melee units, the other 3 unit stacks attack the little spiders. Don't use range attacks against the big spider to avoid the web.

I had those, however due the counterattack from the spider the troops will be down to 0 after 4-5 hits - and i had no resurrection.

[cihank1]

Originally Posted by Kel

As a mage the fight is also not really difficult. You just need a couple of hard hitting melee units. I used a stack of polar bears and Berserkers. Always attack the big spider with the melee units, the other 3 unit stacks attack the little spiders. Don't use range attacks against the big spider to avoid the web.

I really don't get it. Are we even playing the same game? When I attack the giant spider with anything but trolls, the spider makes short work of them; even my toughest units (jarls and jotuns) can't survive against that monstrosity for long.

[Saridu]

Toughest, hmm what's your poison resistance oh right 0 Suspected the giant spider hits with physical and or poison. Try attack him with Royal snakes.

As for the babies, crowd control + frenzy , your Jarls have a very useful swing attack, Axemen too though I wouldn't suggest them. Still raving about Sea Dogs, used a stack for killing the babies, tri attack, dodge and run, worked really well.

[ckdamascus]

After spending many HOURS trying to do no-loss with trolls, I can assure you, Stoneskin works on the Giant Spider's attack. It is physical.

[Bhruic]

Head: 500-1000 physical
Left/Right feet: 700-1300 physical
Spit: 400-900 magical

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Bhruic

Head: 500-1000 physical
Left/Right feet: 700-1300 physical
Spit: 400-900 magical

Does the head also 'poison' you like previous games?

As for the spit being magical. Ugh. Double ugh.

[Bhruic]

There's no poison that I can see. The only "special" seems to be a chance to "curse" - with 100% for the head, 25% for the feet (and 10% when webbed). There's 2nd type of curse that has a 100% chance for the spit. I haven't really looked into what exactly each "curse" does.

Oh, and while I'm at it, the spider boss's resists:
physical=10
poison=50
magic=10

So Royal Snakes might be a poor choice to fight it, especially as it always retaliates.