Sunken Library- How to prepare?May contain spoilers!

[Teeyo(Chicken&Rice)]

How do you prepare yourself enough for the fight? I did once with a bunch lvl9-11 mid late game and got my ass kick so bad.

I was wondering how i could be sure to at least pass it with one brothers surviving.
Im on day 260 E/E/L barbarian start, got a pretty good team of strong lad, good balance of polearm two hander, specialist and all.

-I thought about dogs to help with the... Spoilers: the flying coming at you(got 9 dogs unhold padding)

-A bunch of nets(about 4 on my quickhands guys):

-Some grenada(fire and blinding ones)
So my question is how do you approach the fight and tactily beat it.

I find it more hard than any big chosen camps i had to beat.
Thanks you for your answer!
P.s Sorry for the bad quality of english!

[chandl34]

Second wind potions for everyone.

Dual-gripped whips are very effective against the skulls. I had been using cleaver + polearm mastery on my backline, so it was a natural fit. With high rolls, you can kill 3x per turn, and their explosions can kill others.

Bring some weapons that can break the shields. You're going to be refighting the ancient undead many times, and you should make them as easy to put down as possible.

Bring your sergeant. You're going to get hit hard by horror; sometimes 3x per turn.

Try to kill Iljorik first. Having two characters with the helmet and chestpiece will help with all the miasma.

I'd recommend keeping the bulk of your force around the starting area, so that they can quickly pick off resurrecting undead. Send out 2-4 across the top and bottom, so that they can hunt down the pots. They will only be harrassed by skulls, if you keep the other undead held down. You probably want to make some of these your whip users.

If a pot is elevated, wait a few turns or come back to it.

You could also try snatching up the undead's weapons, but I never could find the time for it.

If you've mostly been using nimble characters, prepare to be punished for it. Nimble is horrible against the skulls, and you will die quickly when your armor is gone.

[UnluckyNoob]

It is so easy you do not need any preparations except maybe +20 resolve potion for your banner bro.
1. Kill 2H guards.
2. Send couple bros to destroy phylacteries.
3. Kill shielded guards. You may also destroy their shields if possible.
4. Use some bros to kill resurrecting guards(warscythe + berserk are great) and use others to hunt illusions (whip/2H flail are the best).
5. Skulls are not a big problem. Kill them if you have nothing more important to do. You may also tank them with dogs or your 400/400 tank bro.

[Maloney]

Can confirm moving the weapons away from the undead doesn't help. They can raise with weapons anyway so don't waste the fatigue.

Additionally to the above a few night owl potions on urn hunters will help open the map up to you.

Taking a bunch of dogs helped a lot. good extra kills on the clones and a bit of extra skull fodder (get the armoured ones).

If miasma is a problem (i didnt bother, its easy enough to tank as long as you maintain armour for the ensuing fight) you can cleanse tiles of miasma with smoke pots (or so i've read). not sure how viable this is because Lorekeeper can drop miasma 3 times a turn. Might not be worth it.

Count your urns so you know when you can kill the lorekeeper. 10 pots. Count em.

I also took a spiked impaler for getting the Lorekeeper off his high perch. It works but i didnt need it in the fight i won XD.

Goblin pike as sidearm on frontline bros. As the fight shifts it can be in your interest to hit the skulls from afar. I found these were better than whip or ranged. Berzerk is a plus here.

The fight is an endurance one and the undead win at endurance. get the flankers out early as possible and start tagging urns. Everything after turn 20 gets hard. aim to be done by 15.

[Uncle Khai]

12 Man Splitter

[Mr.M]

Originally posted by UnluckyNoob:

It is so easy you do not need any preparations except maybe +20 resolve potion for your banner bro.
1. Kill 2H guards.
2. Send couple bros to destroy phylacteries.
3. Kill shielded guards. You may also destroy their shields if possible.
4. Use some bros to kill resurrecting guards(warscythe + berserk are great) and use others to hunt illusions (whip/2H flail are the best).
5. Skulls are not a big problem. Kill them if you have nothing more important to do. You may also tank them with dogs or your 400/400 tank bro.

Note that you dont even need to hunt the illusions, the only problematic spell is the reduced fat

[bouchard_670]

Originally posted by Ngo Khai HD:

12 Man Splitter

That doesn't work. You'll need throwing weapons or some sort of other ranged for phylacteries that are perched on 3 tiles high mound. The fight is not so much about dealing high damage rather than a mobility and endurance check where you need to hit those phylacteries fast and split up your men to get to that. So I fail to see the appeal of your advice.

[chandl34]

Originally posted by Maloney:

Can confirm moving the weapons away from the undead doesn't help. They can raise with weapons anyway so don't waste the fatigue.

Really? I had a few break their weapons and they didn't get new ones. Is it possible they picked up new weapons from the ground instead of resurrecting with them?

[Maloney]

Can't give insight into the mechanics. And I did have a few come back without weapons too. But the vast majority of weapons i moved away, only a few left on the floor when the first mass raise happened. Not only did they raise with weapons but the weapon was re rolled too. An unusual high proportion of war scythes in hand when they stood up where as the weapons i moved away were a variety of typical undead weapons. Maybe it's just a mechanic added so we can't cheese the fight they picked up in beta testing.

[turtle225]

Correct. Stealing their weapons won't work. They will revive with a Warscythe if the game determines that they have no weapon.

[Maloney]

If that's how the game determines it then it may be possible to swap out their weapons. I'm thinking bros enter the battle with spears or low level clubs in the pocket and swap them out with the fallen undead weapons. Drop off the heavier weapons away from the bodies when you can and fight super low tier weapons.

[Mr.M]

Originally posted by Maloney:

If that's how the game determines it then it may be possible to swap out their weapons. I'm thinking bros enter the battle with spears or low level clubs in the pocket and swap them out with the fallen undead weapons. Drop off the heavier weapons away from the bodies when you can and fight super low tier weapons.

...pretty pointless unless you wanna do the fight in world record time...

They respawn with low health and destroyed armor - 1 hit from a duelist or twohander is enough to kill the respawns.
And it takes a whole turn until they can even act.

[kostas_sopas]

dogs dogs dogs....
I tried the battle many times.
I found out that the best strategy was archers with throwing axes on the side reaching the phylacteries.

Dogs on everyone that can get one.

Once the skull phase starts unleash the hounds off the archers that are near the phylacteries and start destroying them with throwing axes (for the elevated ones) and melee for the normal ones.

Dogs will soak up skull dmg, kill phylacteries and maybe even aparritions.

[Maloney]

Originally posted by MrMonokel2000:

Originally posted by Maloney:

If that's how the game determines it then it may be possible to swap out their weapons. I'm thinking bros enter the battle with spears or low level clubs in the pocket and swap them out with the fallen undead weapons. Drop off the heavier weapons away from the bodies when you can and fight super low tier weapons.

...pretty pointless unless you wanna do the fight in world record time...

They respawn with low health and destroyed armor - 1 hit from a duelist or twohander is enough to kill the respawns.
And it takes a whole turn until they can even act.

True but being able to ignore them entirely would have an equity all its own. Note my comment is purely musing I've not confirmed it works.

[Otwist]

It's hard and seems a never ending fight... and you loose at the end

[A5G_Reaper]

There's a lot of detailed tips in this thread, mine included:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/365360/discussions/0/4227150602814266697/