Anders fight

[Xhal]

This guy just destroys my level 3 party like we're level 0, anyone has tips or am I just too low level?

[Terrydactyl]

Yeah he gets 3 attacks straight away. Its stupid

[some guy]

is it the guy who wants to kill karlach? just zerg him he only has 60 hitpoints.

[Topy]

can be a rough fight. its always handy to have a caster with hold person, charm, sleep and other crowd control spells against humanoids. just as a general tip

[prospero]

Took my full Sorc with Karlach, wyll, and shadowheart. Wyll and sorc both immediately misty stepped to the second floor to rain down magic death, Wyll is pact of the chain so the imp ran interference with the other minions, shadowheart kept pulling karlach up when they went down while I tried to make hold person stick. Was able to wittle him down with scorching ray and eldritch blasts and a good hit from Karlach.

[Xhal]

I'll wait until I'm level 4 then. I just killed the spider queen and ogres and really close to level 4.

[Xhal]

In the end I won by cheesing it with minor illusion, you can get both of the girls to come outside the house one at a time, throw them off the cliff and then 1 arrow and you can kill them without going in combat, if you do it with Astarion he can also restealth and flee to camp if he gets in combat.

Then once its just Anders alone just zerg him, he does a lot of damage but if you can sneak attack from the top again with Astarion you can probably down him in 1 round.

[BigJ]

Command/heat metal makes him into a pushover.

[Mr Musturd]

Put your whole party on the rooftop, use astarion to sneak through the top door and sneak attack him. I managed to snipe him without ever aggro'ing him, then when he died the battle commenced and I just used height advantage.

[Fast&Furious11:AllCarsGo2Heaven]

My command failed. Saved scum, stole a Greatsword off of him but when the fight started the jabroni had another two hander on him.

[⛧Hexenritter⛧]

Originally posted by Mr Musturd:

Put your whole party on the rooftop, use astarion to sneak through the top door and sneak attack him. I managed to snipe him without ever aggro'ing him, then when he died the battle commenced and I just used height advantage.

Hahahaha this is a beautiful way of handling this mission. Two shots from Astarion and bye bye Anders.

[Mandra]

For anyone struggling with this fight : don't make the mistake of fighting indoors!
I just finished the fight, and here is my advice :

I started the fight by killing Cyrel outside, pushed her off the cliff.

Then the archer came, I cast hold person and killed them in one turn.

Then Anders comes, and you have to throw everything you can at him : grease and fire, guiding bolt, reckless attack, shove him back into fire, magic missiles to make sure he dies.

Crowd controls have very little chance to land on him, so best bet it to distract him to not get OS by his radiant strikes : pets, illusions, mage hands, etc

Good luck!

[Fliqpy]

Originally posted by Xhal:

This guy just destroys my level 3 party like we're level 0, anyone has tips or am I just too low level?

Minor illusion and barrels kills them all or at least the two most dangerous ones.

[solaris32]

You also can ignore him and he apparently shows up in act 2. Ignore him there too and he shows up in act 3. According to the wiki, I haven't done it myself.

[m142]

make him drop weapon then pick it up from his feet , works every time.

[Mandra]

Originally posted by m142:

make him drop weapon then pick it up from his feet , works every time.

That's good advice, even tho in tactician you probably have something like 20% to land a command spell on him (I know I did), but if it works it's wonderful :)