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[Chthonic]

I'd never fought a GCS before yesterday night, but had been suitably impressed by the descriptions of others.  En route to a mountain cave, I was ambushed by a pair of them.  My human hammerman (highly skilled in wrestling, also) smashed them both to bug-guts in only a few turns before I realized what I was fighting.  Is their horrifying glory diminished in latter days?

[Sergius]

You can always get lucky, as long as you don't get webbed/poisoned.

[hactar1]

I encountered an entire cave of them (they were chosen as the denizens of a cyclops lair, apparently), and they weren't that tough at all.  Got poisoned once, but killed him before I got paralyzed, and there wasn't any other threat in the area while the poison wore off.  I never fought any in the old version except in Dwarf mode, where they are probably more deadly because my dwarves never seemed to notice the webs and ran right into them.

[Plank of Wood]

The main threat is that they can web you, take away that and they are easy.

[Tiler]

The web and the paralysis are what makes them dangerous. If you are strong enough to kill them before they can bite or web you, then it's all good. If not, enjoy reading three pages of descriptions of your various limbs being bitten and ripped off.

Having companions with you makes them significantly less dangerous as well, since they can save your ass if you're paralyzed, diminishing the threat of being killed while comatose.

[Qloos]

I had a force of 11 men with me, we had taken on a dragon and survived.  But a single Giant Cave Spider managed to web the entire group, paralyze me, bite my face and arms and rip off my leg before my allies could free themselves and save my life.

[Haven]

'Hoppy the Scourge'.

I still haven't even managed to find one yet, but I'd imagine the paralyzing powers are the major issue, given experience with the all-consuming MEZ.

[valcon]

i haven't seen one for months

last time i did, all i saw was the combat log flash briefly before i died

[Nonanonymous]

Anytime you successfully defeat something with [WEBBER], it means that you got lucky enough that they didn't remember how to shot web.

[Sergius]

Anytime you successfully defeat something with [WEBBER], it means that you got lucky enough that they didn't remember how to shot web.

Or they ran out of Web Fluid.