how you beat the octocupus?

[AngelSlayer7]

im level 10 paladin.

what level is recomende to beat him and what units you recomended?

[mohican]

Toooo early for that task

[Keneth]

Use ranged units (archers) and those with no retaliation (ancient vampires, royal snakes, etc.) to attack it. Use cannon fodder (summoned thorns, phantoms, demons,...) to minimize the damage to yourself. Kill the devilfish on the first round, this will make it more likely that it'll try to summon them again on next turn, in turn making it less likely that you'll take any damage.

[Gatts]

10th level is not that bad - still you may consider to fight some more fights in the pirate land (of course if you didn't already )

Apart of no retaliation units (like vamps/royal snakes) also use bandits : they can use the bludgeon ob-one-hex attack ...

always stock your units so you will have one "tank" unit - use this unit to provoke the octubus to use normal hand-to-hand attack instead of summoning devilfish - it may become nasty to have full battlefield of devilfish.

If you really have spells like phantom/ necro call/ demon portal/ or units that can summon thorns - use these units as your "tank" units for the provokative manouver - unless you already installed "improve AI" mod where the AI does more often ignore such "fake" units and attack your core units instead

[Handel]

Thanks to the tip I read on this board beating the octopus is the easiest thing in the game (as well as another similar monster later in the game).
The problem with the octopus is not the monster itself but the increasing number of devilfish it spawns. So I hired 2 stacks of thorns; there are 3 kinds of thorns in the game and either 2 will do the job, althoguh if you can better to take royal thorns.
The task for the thorns is to spawn thorns from the dead devilfish AND to make hits too if there is nothing the spawn (you will be surprised how much damage can do 500 thorns).
Large number of thorn stacks prevents some of the devifish from spawning, can eliminate some of the devifish themselves AND stop the devilfish from attacking the main troops (they simply cannot get close to them).

[Smash]

Or use phantomed Shamans to cast totems everywhere.

[YENKO]

Question: i have to give certain pirate mark to Jim the pirate. But he is nowhere to be seen, and Mirabella is only interested in me dispatching the Kraken. Now, i must get something wrong, since i read about people who 'sneaked'(snuck? agh) their way all the..way to Jim and the Mines without fighting?
Advice needed, thanks.

[Lari]

Do you remember Red beard who give you that black mark? he will also tell you a secret word to get into the mines, that are located just behind his house(very short walk). I didn't saw them too the first time

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Lari

Do you remember Red beard who give you that black mark? he will also tell you a secret word to get into the mines, that are located just behind his house(very short walk). I didn't saw them too the first time

Thanks! Aw, i DID see the entrance behind the house, but there is some badass 'overpowering' enemy hero parked at the entrance!
I'm a lvl 10 mage and i obviously suck

Forget it, i'm blind as an old bat

The guard won't let me in I have 3 options: tell tghe password, which i have no idea what it is, bribe him with 5000 gold which is no fun, or bash his head in, which is fun and i can gain some loot and exp.

[Lari]

By now, you'll already solved this with a bloodshed however you could have just gently asked red beard for the password