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|[[File:AIWarSpiderBot.png|left|Acid Sprayer]] || valign="top" | Extremely effective at damaging the engines of enemy ships.
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== Base Stats ==
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Note: Spider Mk V used to be called the Anti-Starship Arachnid (patch 5.027)
== How to use in your fleet ==
Engine damage is one of the less common aspect of AI-war gameplay. A Ship's base speed is determined by a ratio of their engine health over max-health, with a minimum of 1.

[[Spider Bot]]s are capable of first-strike against many ship-types and stop them from making any more progress into your territory. This is very useful when planning defenses in which AI ships have to travel a large distance to reach their targets, especially in combination with the teleporting attack of [[Military Command Stations]].  With a cap of Spider-I plus Spider-IIs and a reload of 5 seconds, a player can theoretically completely disable early waves within a minute (a different targeting algorithm is in place, although this assertion should be tested). A volley or two should also disable the engines of an average starship or guardian. As engine health does not rise with mark-level, a full complement of Spider Bots will just as easily stop that core [[Raid Engine Guard Post|Raid-Engine]] wave as a mark-I wave.

NB: The ship-type distributions being random, engine damage actually decreases in utility with the addition of Neinzul and Spire expansions. A v5.029 non-comprehensive engine health list is included here:
* '''Inf''' (immune) - [[Raid Starship]]s, melee ships, teleporting ships, [[Sniper]]s, Neinzul ships, and all [[Neinzul Enclave Starship]]s.
* 600,000 - [[Spire Destroyer]].
* 300,000 - [[Bomber Starship]]s, [[Riot Control Starship]]s-III (10,000*Mark), [[Spire Frigate]]
* 100,000 - Many Starships, most Guardians, Spire fleet-ships, [[AI-Neinzul Hybrid]]s
* 3,000 - [[Plasma Siege Starship]]s
* 2000 - [[Zenith Electric Bomber]]s
* 1000 - [[Sentinel Frigate]]s
* 800 - [[Etherjet]]s, [[Zenith Chameleon]]s
* 200 - [[Fighter]]s, [[Bomber]]s, [[Tachyon Microfighter]]s, [[Space Tank]]s, [[Space Plane]]s
* 150 - [[Armor Ship]]s
* 100 - Other fleet-ships, [[Zenith Auto Bomb]]s(!), [[Decloaker]]s
* 50 - [[Raptor]]s

== How to counter when in the AI fleet ==
Enemy [[Spider Bot]]s are generally annoying, being pernicious enough to disable a small bunch of your fleet across every planet. Aside from emphasising ship-types which are resistant or immune, best practice is to send in a squad of [[Engineer]]-IIIs on FRD (engine damage can be repaired just like health damage).

Ironically, their own engines can be readily disabled by your own ships.

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