While I really love this game, what is irking me a little is that the spider-tank doesn't do ANY damage whatsoever. They work in every other way, but whenever they shoot, they deal damage to NO unit. Is there a way I can fix this?

No. Their job is not to damage, but to paralyze. Because of this, they require a bit of babysitting else they'll simply keep attacking the same unit over and over again instead of moving on to another target to paralyze. Once knocked out in this manner, the target is easy pickin's for your damage-dealing units.

What he said, they're for disabling units not destroying them. I find they're better on the defense personally, as they die to 3 heavy laser shots (I keep a few expendable peewees to draw enemy fire, freeze em with the Spiders, then static defenses can easily mop up).

Also they really do not work well versus ais but really shine multiplayer.....

And if you like Spidermechs in your TA GAme their also are two i believe spider factory mods made long ago where each factory has a number of five or seven spider mechs and their weapons do damage

i dont exactly know the links but if you can't find them if you want to then i can help find them for you



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They also have a particular movement style and climb things well.

I believe spiders are good for one thing only - reclaiming - if i start with any in a mission.

I'm mostly a CORE player, so I haven't played around with spiders much myself against the AI, but I can tell you I had a game where the AI used them against me and they were very annoying. They held down some Reapers of mine that were driving hard to kill some of the AI's stuff. The fact that this was so suggests they could be highly useful?

That's only in modded TA I believe...?

No.

You get spiders given to you in some Arm missions, and the first thing i do is reclaim them.
because they are just not useful for anything seriously! .... even if you did paralyze something, you still have to deal with that paralyzed unit sooner or later..... So why not have built a different unit instead of the spider and used that different unit to kill that paralyzed unit instead? There is no answer to that.

Try and play some Balanced Annihilation. Hence the name, it IS practically TA, with all the beautiful units, but better gameplay. And the spiders now come in 2 sizes - the paralyzing one, and a bigger brother with rockets.

Check out https://balancedannihilation.com/. It's free as long as you have TA, when reading this here, i think you already have a copy!

Not only have it, but played it last night! XD

Thanks for the heads-up.