Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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Yesterday, my tribe and I successfully defeated the Alpha Broodmother for the first time.
Initially, our tribe fought the Beta Broodmother with 18 megatheriums (~lvl 279, ~22k health, ~590% melee, ~47 armor saddles), one yuti (no imprinting, lvl 240ish) and a daeodon (no imprinting, lvl 240ish). With this army, I was not surprised that be defeated the Beta Broodmother, but some of the megatheriums ended up with only a few thousand health left. Since the Alpha Broodmother was quite a step up, our tribe started using the results of the Beta fight as preparation.
For the Alpha Broodmother, we decided that everyone without a mount would be shooting ARs (journeyman or higher) at the spider. Three people in our tribe had the shooting role. The shooters had strong armor (flak), stimulants (in case an araneo attacked), and shadow steak sauté (helps aim).
We also decided that a daeodon was near useless because it barely healed the megatheriums in the Beta fight, and it ran out of food near instantly (we had ~10 stacks of cooked lamb chops in it).
To replace the daeodon, another megatherium with the same stats was bred.
Every person was also given a Calien Soup to help against the heat. One person was instructed to help lure the megatheriums to completely surround the Broodmother.
With the 19 megatheriums, 3 AR shooters, and 1 yuti (for courage roar), our tribe beat the Alpha Broodmother with 10 megatherium casualties.
What we could do better:
- Replace the ARs with journeyman/mastercraft shotguns because the ARs cost SO MUCH ammo (~1300 would probably be sufficient) and do not even do as much damage.
I hope this was helpful!