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[Zarin]

I've been struggling with HMP for a while now. My many initial attempts were for close-combat character - fireangel and blademaster. Some of those went quite far, but never far enough. At some point I decided that I'm fed up and started another character with intent to get Cateye. The first one of those, with Dodgemaster on top of Cateye got killed by Arachnotrons on level 24 due to my sheer stupidity - I decided to keep fighting instead of going downstairs.

My second character went quite well, despite never finding anything exotic or unique in line of my traits (assault shotgun?!)  I was stocked on large med-packs (by the way - ditch most of that as well as the armor as soon as you get Cateye - you don't get hit that often after that and those slots have to be used for ammo).  When I found the Mortuary, I had Cateye, Sob(3) and Hel(1) as well as three (!) homing phase devices. The latter decided it for me.

My plan for the Mortuary was this: teleport to the stairs immediately, slowly work my way towards the center, teleport back to the stairs if there is no hope of winning this fight, grab everything next to the stairs and descend. This would leave me with an extra homing device in case I needed to bypass a tough cave on my way down.

I never activated that second homing device!  I killed easier enemies from afar, lured stronger ones (Barons and Arachnotrons) towards the edge to kill them there and pick up any dropped ammo while away from the Viles, and killed the Viles with missile launcher (knockback rules!). It was almost too easy...

Anyway, for the mortem:
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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.1) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Arkady, level 11 Cacodemon Corporal, defeated the Cyberdemon
 on level 25 of the Phobos base.
 He survived 155126 turns and scored 157604 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 21 minutes and 1 second.
 He wasn't afraid to be hurt plenty.

 He killed 729 out of 729 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!


 He saved himself 11 times.

-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Grim Reaper's Badge
  Hell Champion Medal
  UAC Bronze Badge
  UAC Silver Badge
  Veteran Bronze Badge
  Veteran Silver Badge
  Reaper Bronze Badge
  Reaper Silver Badge
  Reaper Gold Badge

-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------

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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------

  Health 29/50   Experience 55390/11
  ToHit Ranged +4  ToHit Melee +4  ToDmg Ranged +3  ToDmg Melee +3

-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------

    Hellrunner       (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 3)
    Eagle Eye        (Level 2)
    Intuition        (Level 2)
    Triggerhappy     (Level 1)
    Cateye           (Level 1)

  SoB->EE->SoB->EE->Int->Int->TH->MCe->SoB->HR->HR->

-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------

    [a] [ Armor      ]   modified red armor [6/6] (79%) (P)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   modified BFG 9000 (10d8) [10/130] (B1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   modified phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%) (T)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   modified missile launcher (6d7) [4/4] (P1)

-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------

    [a] modified chaingun (1d6)x4 [40/40] (A1)
    [b] modified plasma rifle (1d7)x6 [40/40] (A1)
    [c] nuclear BFG 9000 (8d8) [1/40]
    [d] BFG 9000 (10d8) [100/100]
    [e] Angelic Armor [7/7] (100%)
    [f] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [g] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [h] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [j] 10mm ammo (x140)
    [k] rocket (x11)
    [l] power cell (x40)
    [m] power cell (x70)
    [n] large med-pack
    [o] large med-pack
    [p] homing phase device
    [q] thermonuclear bomb

-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------

    77 former humans
    108 former sergeants
    48 former captains
    158 imps
    80 demons
    92 lost souls
    19 cacodemons
    49 barons of hell
    1 Cyberdemon
    21 hell knights
    32 arachnotrons
    12 former commandos
    7 pain elementals
    13 arch-viles
    7 mancubi
    3 revenants
    2 bruiser brothers

-- History ---------------------------------------------------

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 3 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 6 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 9 he witnessed the Wall.
  He massacred the evil behind the Wall!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 15 he encoutered the Phobos Hellgate.
  On level 22 he was foolish enough to enter the Mortuary!
  On level 22 he found the Angelic Armor!
  He managed to clear the Mortuary from evil!
  Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
  On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.

-- Messages --------------------------------------------------

 The Cyberdemon fires! You dodge! You hear an explosion!
 Fire -- Choose target...   You don't have enough ammo to fire the BFG 9000!
 The Cyberdemon reloads his rocket launcher.
 You reload the BFG 9000 with power cell.
 The Cyberdemon fires! You dodge! You hear an explosion!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon
 reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 The Cyberdemon fires! You dodge! You hear an explosion!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon
 reloads his rocket launcher.
 Fire -- Choose target... 
 The Cyberdemon fires! You dodge! You hear an explosion!
 Fire -- Choose target...   The missile hits the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon
 dies. You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations! You defeated

-- General ---------------------------------------------------

 Before him 154 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 134 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.
 And 16 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
 Is he immortal? 3 souls claim to have killed him...
 2 killed the bastard and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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[thelaptop]

Nice Mortuary clearing!  Knockback is a really good friend in many circumstances.  I think that it became easier to plan your moves once you have Cateye going -- that additional 2 more tiles of visibility gives you just enough time to knockback anything that comes close.  Also, 2xInt probably helped you plan your moves better too.

It's been a while... I think I should try this build and see if I can clear the Mortuary too!  Good win there!