No more guard spiders - one issue I had with them back in COE4 was that they often didn't allow teammates or other players to take over structures once place, also very easy to misclick and dooming you to own it forever (until an random moose decides to clear it). So I just remove them, plus the AI just seems to waste resources on them in COE4 and create mass deathpits that can't move.

Iron Costs - I thought iron was needing to be used since the faction had no purpose for it back in COE4 and it would just pile up, now you use it for the armoured spiders and the new poison range unit hire.

Random Costs for worshippers/base hire hunters - They were very cheap and easy to just spam everywhere, so I just added an random element of cost for worshippers (they are still cheap compare to other faction scouts/commanders). The hunters got an random cost per turn as well, just to ensure you don't make the map covered in spiders from the start and to focus on using the broodmothers to make them since they still got the original costs.

Spider Thickets - Thought it was an fun idea and makes sense, so I made some random spawns for the tiles and allow you to grow them. Have fun (plus it makes their starting home less defensible encouraging an aggressive playstyle.

Acid/Poison Spider reload - They were very good at just sniping all unit types and mobs, so I nerf them slightly in dmg and give an reload. Honestly the princesses and Matriarch do the job for you already, also makes it a bit harder to defend locations with them.