Critto's v5 journal Options

[critto]

Okay. Really, the mod is totally fun and pleasure, but in the name of all that sacred, next version should ease up on spiders a little bit.
I thought 2 drow ambushes were hard to beat with those annoying spiders being everywhere. Apparantly, I was mistaken.
Deeper underdark. Cave with an instant supply of whisper spiders (where they just keeping coming from nowhere). Really, how can I beat this thing? They dispel everything, they somehow draw characters from place to themselves, and sometimes they just kill chars instantly. Why is that? Why no info about the damage being done or save-throw being made (dwarf-kensai, instantly dead. huh?). And, finally, there are just TOO DAMN much of them, my characters can't handle them, even though I have a fighter-heavy party (vagrant, kensai, blade, berserker-cleric, sorc, thief/mage). I am doing buffs, of course, but they are being dispelled very soon and there is no point and time in refreshing them. Summons doesn't help much too (tried 5 hasted mordy swords). Tried magic (adwh, chain lightnings), but they are magic resistant, as it seems.
I am no great tactician, but how am I supposed to win that battle? :) Just keep reloading and hope for better save-throws and no instant-kills? I would be really glad to have some advices on that battle. This is the first one in the game which makes me feel annoyed, instead of being interested, having fun and searching for better tactics.

[Kerkes]

Spider drain stats like Inteligence and Wisdom, much like Mind _Flayers. You'll have a hard time if your characters have low INT and WIS scores. If a score reaches 0, insta death occurs.
SPOILER!

Try prot evil, def harmony, low AC is good here.
As I remember, mages are also very good here, try malison + Emotion on them.
ADHW should work I believe.
What I would do is try to get a very low AC on Blade (def spin, some buffs from Cleric) and use him as a decoy, while the rest of fighters do the beating.
I didn't use summons here.
For preventing confusion, just equip kensai with Lirarcor, Vagrant with Harmony shield, ber-cler Enrage, go to work under imp.haste and hope for some critical hits