Demonic Spiders/Video Games/Real Time Strategy: Difference between revisions

*** Eldar Seer Council and Warlocks are even worse, since they can do that AND move incredibly fast and hold their own in melee.

* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has the [[Mighty Glacier|Gargantuars]]. Sure, they're slow, but they take a crapton of damage (it actually takes ''two'' [[One-Hit Kill]] plants to kill them), [[One-Hit Kill]] any plant it comes across, and throws a [[Fragile Speedster|smaller zombie]] deep into your defenses when it gets close enough. They also like to attack in groups. And that's saying nothing about the [[It Got Worse|Giga Gargantuars]] that appear in Survival mode...

* [[Brutal Legend]]'s Campaign mode has one in the ranks of the Drowned Doom army: the Reapers. They move ridiculously fast, can one-shot most of your non-vehicle units with their melee attacks alone, and they have some strange blue fire burst attack that tears you apart in seconds. Oh, and did I mention that there's at least one of them around ''every time you have to face the Drowned Doom''? At least they can be taken down somewhat quickly by Double Teaming with a level 2 Razor Girl...

** In fact, ANY Drowned Doom unit is a Demonic Spider, Reapers, Frightwigs and Brides being some of the worst. Reapers (as stated above) can practically murder you and your entire army in about a second, are INCREDIBLY fast, and usually come in pairs of two or three (at least during the later Stage Battles). Oh, and you're screwed if someone decides to Double Team with one... Frightwigs attack using their tentacle-hair, and they can easily butcher you or any unit from immense distances by themselves. If double-teamed with, they can be thrown at enemy-units to possess them, making them fight for you. If it happens to one of your units, you have to take your own unit down. Sounds like fun, right? And oh, the Brides. The Brides are support-units (buffing their own units, and de-buffing enemies) and don't exactly attack, unless someone hits them. If they're hit, the hitter gets a bolt of lightning thrown down upon them, which kills your units absurdly quick if you're not careful.

* In [[Sacrifice]] theres the Death spell, not a unit itself but when summoned it will instantly kill any unit it can reach by touching it, this includes the monsters of the wizard that summoned it. Still wizards are not targeted by it.

** Two of the most dangerous units are Pyro's Warmonger and Charnels Styx both are Glass Cannon that deal great damage the former has a short range machine gun that rips apart any target in seconds, and the later has a long range dark lazer beam that can obliderate souls.

** Also, the {{spoiler|Furies}}. Their main attack is a bolt of lightning that's hard to dodge, and they have ''huge'' missiles with massive damage radii. Worst of all, the regular ones can drop out of the sky on top of you with no warning. The tank versions at least lack the mobility of the regular ones, but they're substantially tougher.

* The spider virii in [[Darwinia]] can leap over long distances and tear through Darwinians like a laser cannon through butter. Annoyingly, they target Darwinians over player-controlled units, so it's easy to accidentally lead them back to your incubator and watch in horror as the army you've been building up for the last ten minutes is torn apart.

** The same game has the Libyan special unit, the Demolition Truck. Its special ability is to blow up in a massive nuclear explosion. A fleet of these pointed straight at the enemy base, backed by the invulnerability-granting Iron Curtain, can level a base in seconds.

** As the [[Game Breaker]] faction, Yuri gets his own spiders too: the Floating Disk is a high level unit that can deactivate your entire base, eat money and are generally a pain in the ass to kill.