Bard Songs Unlock

[AnonMindsetTX]

Using the Bard you unlock the Lute at the camp. From the camp you can see when you click on the Lute that you can unlock 3 more songs.
You have "Adventures Galore" already, which becomes repetitive but it's free money.

Then three more can be unlocked ...
1. Win a battle with only one undying unit.
2. Decimate a troop of 8 or more units with a team using no equipment.
3. Have a boar called: "Hammy", and make it kill 5 units in a single battle.

I have accomplished number 2 multiple times in this game, and I can guess many of us have as well. Still not unlocked for me.
Devs and frens, what's the technicality I'm missing to unlock these songs? Do they mean something else by "decimate"?
This thread is for Bard help. Why am I not unlocking these songs after already having done these things?

[AnonMindsetTX]

3 having a boar named hammy seems the most doable.
2 decimate with no equipment. Do this mean no oil or grenades? What does no equipment mean? Do they mean only kill one tenth like the pure term decimate?
1 win a battle with only one teammate who isn't dying is tough but possibly doable.

[Arctuhris]

I have had no problem unlocking any of the songs on any of my runs, so I don't think they're bugged (unless it happened very recently). If the song is not unlocking, I would assume that somehow you failed to meet the requirement (even though you thought that you did).

Specifically, for "The Naked Ones," it means *absolutely* nothing equipped by anyone in your party. No armor, no helmet, no weapons, no belt, no backpack, and no items on any of your animals, including those in camp (I think). I don't know for sure about the camp animals (e.g. work ponies), but I always take everything off of everybody, and it's unlocked no problem. The easiest way I've found to accomplish this is attacking wolves with 6-8 bears or white bears in my party. Naked humans just retreat & huddle, and try not to die while the bears slowly mop up the wolves.

The easiest strategy I've found for "The Undying One," involves hiring a fresh merc for the battle. I then use that merc to push everyone else to "dying" status, except for one other merc who is holding off the enemy. I like to do this fight against pigs. You can then let the new recruit get hit to dying status (or just let the pigs kill him), and then finish the last of the boars off with your chosen merc (a fighter w/ Enhanced Visibility & Alazarian Heater Shield works very well at 1-shotting the boars when they attack him).

[hornsounder97]

Alternatively I believe The Undying One can be accomplished in any arena. Just take the boss down real low, then let them take out three of your mercs and then kill the boss.

It's been a while since I played, but I believe that is still a viable strat. Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken.

[Spawnling]

Undying can be done by leaving all but 1 merc at travel posts and winning a battle.

Killing 8 or more while naked means NO equipment, nothing, so having a few animals and just one naked merc hiding in a corner does the trick.

Hammy can be done in a rat nest, use a vanguard that can't kill the rats with their charge and then run them voer with a boar named Hammy

[Galahad]

The song of the naked is easy. Catch 3-4 bears, undress one character, leave the rest in the tavern. Attack the wolves. The bears will kill them, the song is yours.

[Tomcattwo]

I did Hammy at the sewers in Vertruse (below the Market in Marheim). Hammy was a level 4 dominant sow, and the song unlocked on the 5th kill. I took a couple of healers, a ranger thief with the Low Blow skill (inflicts 50% chance of a miss on next attack), and 3 tanks, and parked everybody else in the tavern except them and the work ponies. I took the primary weapons off of all the troop, so they could only punch the 13 molerats (about 48 HP each) just to soften them up for Hammy so she could do 1 bite kills on them. Each round, I used the healers to heal Hammy as necessary, and inflicted Low Blow if there were multiple molerats on Hammy. The tanks just ran around and occasionally punched the remaining molerats until Hammy got her 5 kills, and the Tale of Hammy the Boar song unlocked.

[ArdentSlacker]

I found a way to do Hammy at a pretty low level. I used a rat nest. I didn't have a way to control the boar, but I could station guys around the broodmother. One guy's got the shout that does the riposte buff, archer with beastmaster can also activate an attack of opportunity. I was also going to use my crossbowman's commanding shot to do the same, but unfortunately, they were one-shotting rats.

If I hadn't realized this would work mid-battle, I could probably have pulled it off by turn 2.

Edit: Also, good news! The unlocks do not require you to have the Lute. Source: don't have the Lute yet, but I can select it at the inn now.