how you beat the octocupus?

[GeneralGonzo]

Originally Posted by YENKO

Solved the Redbeard/Jim tasks, went to king Darion for my reward and my new orders. So i met the guy in the forest, returned to the castle and king Darion gave me my next task, to kill some Duke in the Mines. I entered the dwarven mines, killed 2 or 3 manageable enemy armies and hightailed out of Dodge City, mobs too strong
Now I am buzzing around in the Islands and trying to kill the Kraken. I am lvl 11 now, and it seems, I cannot level further here. The friggin Kraken, I cannot beat him. I have no Resurrection spell and none of the spells for summoning..something/someone. AT start I am doing OK, but round after round, the Kraken is spawning larger and larger stacks of Devilfish: I quitted when the stacks reached 450 devilfish each. No way in hell I can beat that monster, he has like total 44000 hit points
Need advice, some cofee and..a drink methinks! Kraken with zero losses? How in heaven is that possible? I am missing something HUGE here grrr..

Hmm, i have beaten the kraken with lvl12. My army consisted of about 120 Archer (i had the scope (+100% attack) plus the elven bow), 30 shamans, 70 griffins, 30 knights and 85 royal snakes. My values of attack and defense around 20.
To beat the kraken you need at least 1 archer type and 1 with "no retaliate" ability. Good morale helps also making doble damage (my knights did the job well, doing about 1500 damage).
The spawned devilfishs concentrated on the shamans totems and my griffins finished off the mobs! Try to not let your melee troops stand behind one another as the kraken arm damages troops standing in a row. Instead place one melee troop in front of an arm and the other one besides it, so you take minimal damage for only one troop when the kraken retaliates.