Getting past the bloody spider.

[DeepSoul]

I noticed you don't need poison resistance because the Spider attacks with physical and magic damage. The dark cloud he casts is magic damage. How do I know? He cast it on my Black Dragon and it only received around 80 damage. Black Dragons have 0% poison resistance 80% magic resistance. So the snakes are pretty pointless since their lunge attack still get retaliated by the boss. They also go down very fast because of their low defense. I started with 72 and at the end (before I gave up) I had only 14 left. I would recommend something stronger or a ranged unit instead. Units that can summon other units, for example engineers, is also a good idea because they can help tank the ever growing swarm of spiders.

[ckdamascus]

Snakes are great against the spider minions though which do deal poison damage.

Dark Ball is magic, yes (noted) and retaliation in melee is physical.

[dainbramage]

Speaking of call colossus, what about ice dragons? Resistant to poison, immune to magic, and could spam ice minions everywhere as they kill stacks. I guess that's probably outweighed by not being able to heal them though.

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by dainbramage

Speaking of call colossus, what about ice dragons? Resistant to poison, immune to magic, and could spam ice minions everywhere as they kill stacks. I guess that's probably outweighed by not being able to heal them though.

Well, if you have the ice snakes spell, you could heal them...

[DeepSoul]

Well, I have Ice Dragons too but they can't be healed by that spell unfortunately since they are immune to magic, even if it's an ice creation(a mistake by the devs?). You can have one minion at a time but you can heal it, and they get a 50% attack penalty in caves, so it's not as good as you think but still worth it because they can tank the spiders really well.

I managed to beat the boss as a level 17 mage on hard and also got achievement. Here's what I had:

1 Black Dragon
2 Ice Dragons
3 Trolls
15 Jarls
80 Royal Snakes

Items: Healer's Jacket (20% poison resistance). Bought from pirate captain on Isterreng.
Spells: Ice Snake(cast on boss), Magic Spring(to get more mana for Ice Snake)

The Dragons tanked the minions while the rest attacked the boss whenever it was possible. I used the Jarls ability to give another turn to the snakes and they did a few really high hits on the boss. They even managed to use lunge without getting hit a few times, but don't attack his head because then he will use his magic.

[Reto]

I am new to KB and I must say, this was a hard fight. I first tried it with lvl 13 (warrior, normal), but had no chance.

Now I tried it again with lvl 15 and meanwhile frenzy skill 1. I needed several attempts but at the end beat the bloody spider in round 18 with the following armies:

- Trolls (3)
- Berserkers (~67)
- Vikings (~110)
- Royal Snakes (~60)
- Swamp Snakes (~110)

I lost all of my berserkers and vikings, about half of the snakes but no troll. This fight was hard for a warrior not able to use the rage skills and a KB newbie like me. But I'm glad that I succeded now and look forward to continue the game.

[jake21]

I'm actually at this point in my second play through and having a bit of an effort. On warrior impossible I did not find this fight so difficult (dont' remember level); but on mage impossible level 17 I'm finding it rather difficult.
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Troops:
royal snake 57/60
jotun 2/2
beserker 60/60
ancient bears 45/45
Jaris 11/11
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sucky spells (titan armor, titan sword)
sucky other spells (fire arrow only does 450 damage); only useful spell I think I have are
heal and stone skin
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Oh well I've failed twice but will try try again. I think maybe I should swap the jotun (which seem useless) with polar bears.I don't see any method to get to level 18. I could try leveling my baton for more leadership. Hum. Doesn't look good....