Getting past the bloody spider.

[Lancian]

Originally Posted by ivanvazovv

That's the point - it's easy to kill hib, but I want to kill without any losses. I have 3 trolls but they don't seem to deal a lot of damage

Yeah well..I was talking about impossible difficulty

[ivanvazovv]

I have only first level of rune magic, so my Ice spikes magic gives only three spikes and it's impossible to fill the whole battlefield. And I can't think of anything else Is there no other way to kill the spider without losses? Doesn't nobody managed to kill it without losses with different tactic that filling the battlefield with spikes? I've beaten all the previous games without losses on impossible, and now I can't even kill the first boss on Normal. WTF?
edit : just killed it. Used only trolls split into three groups of one. Easy but long battle - around 50 rounds. Didn't like it, seems the tactic with the trolls is the only designed way to defeat the boss without losses.

[gunnyhighway]

Finally beat it last night on impossible my icespike trick took while and lots of luck. Needed him to not drop spiders down a few times to catch up on the ice spikes. Trolls are so awesome with their instant life return on start of next round.

[oas]

I needed a quite a few tries.
Initially I used assassins and maidens, but i kept reloading because i didn't want to lose any of those.
Then I used Trolls (3), Jarls, Polar Bears, Royal Snakes and vikings.
I used the trolls, snakes and bears to attack the spider (boss). Jarl allowed me to attack twice the spider with bears. Then in the middle of the battle I also used vikings to attack her (all of my vikings died)

I defeated the spider in 11 rounds(achievement) on impossible.

[gempepaine]

This is what i used: (Warrior - Impossible)
I had to restart a few times because he kept using range attacks in almost every rounds and both maidens had resurrect in cool down.
But in the last battle he got busy with the ancient bears from call of nature spell
Just before the final blow , the snakes made a critical hit of 11 000 dmg on him.
I didn't got the achievement but at least was a no loss battle.

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by gempepaine

Just before the final blow , the snakes made a critical hit of 11 000 dmg on him.I didn't got the achievement but at least was a no loss battle.

11000? HOW?

[gempepaine]

Originally Posted by tiberiu

11000? HOW?

Warriors has a skill called Absolute Rage (+50% critical damage)
Beside that , the snakes killed most of the spiders. With the help from Jarls ability they where able to attack twice per round , when the ability was available . Frenzy skill allowed the snakes to build up a large amount of Attack Power after each kills, therefore they got insane damage at the end of the battle.

[namad]

Originally Posted by gempepaine

This is what i used: (Warrior - Impossible)
I had to restart a few times because he kept using range attacks in almost every rounds and both maidens had resurrect in cool down.
But in the last battle he got busy with the ancient bears from call of nature spell
Just before the final blow , the snakes made a critical hit of 11 000 dmg on him.
I didn't got the achievement but at least was a no loss battle.

level 22? wow? I was like level ~18 when I did it (had massive loses too but similar army except no warrior maidens because my game didn't spawn any, which shouldn't've even be possible at all...... limit first 4islands to 1race then don't even assure that race appears?)

[gunnyhighway]

I did everything and only got level 18 or 19 and thats with xp items found and skald talent so this just dont seem right perhaps thats on hard?

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by namad

level 22? wow? I was like level ~18 when I did it (had massive loses too but similar army except no warrior maidens because my game didn't spawn any, which shouldn't've even be possible at all...... limit first 4islands to 1race then don't even assure that race appears?)

Sorry but I don't think it's limited to 1 race. On Vestlig I think there are some dwarves too.. I had miners, alchemists and engineers. Also there are snakes in Isstereng at the witch and wolf/bears/thorns in other places. And lets not forget trolls. But that sucks indeed if you didn't find any maidens. They quite useful in the opening stage of game.