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[Tormuse]

I had a bit of spare time and felt like going for Shottyman Diamond.  I'm heading to bed right now, but I'll write about the run tomorrow...

EDIT:

I've always been fond of the Shotgun in this game, so I find Angel of Shotgunnery to be one of the easier challenges.  When I loaded the game up to play, yesterday, I got it on my first try!  :D  That's not to say it was easy, per se; I found I had more difficulty at it than I remember having the last time I played an AoSh N! game.  (I guess I'm just rusty, or maybe this version is harder?  Last time I did it, I used a Shottyhead build in 0.9.9.4)  Nevertheless, I had fun shredding every enemy in my path with Army of the Dead Master Trait combined with SoB.  Towards the end of the game, even the toughest enemies fell from 6 or 7 shells fired at long range!  :)

A few notes about this run:

I probably wouldn't have survived Hell's Arena, if not for the fact that I went in there with 6 med-packs.  I was having a lot of difficulty with corpse stacking and ended up destroying most of the Cacodemon bodies by standing over them and getting the other Cacos to hit me.  That strategy cost me 5 med-packs, but I made it.  :)

The Tactical Armour that I assembled at the Chained Court got destroyed almost immediately afterward at the beginning of the next level by a Baron and a Commando.  :(  I was pretty pissed off about that, especially since I had armour shortages for pretty much the rest of the game, but the Malek's Armour that I found in the Vaults made up for that and made the endgame much easier.  :)

I got two Shambler kills because he revived a few seconds after I killed him.  Fortunately, I had MAD by that time, so taking him out a second time wasn't *too* strenuous, and I made sure to push him into the lava this time.  :)

Funny thing:  by level 14, I had two nukes, and I was itching to use them, and I remarked to myself how odd it was that I hadn't seen a single invulnerability so far, (yes, I talk to myself sometimes)  :P  and about two seconds after saying that, I went around a corner and saw two invulnerabilities right next to each other!  I used them to nuke the Spider's Lair and the level afterward, and there was enough left over to claim the Cyberdemon's head.

I found another nuke shortly afterward, (there were a lot of nukes in this game!) and I used it to clear the Vaults.  It was funny seeing the message, "You'd think there'd be an easier way to get in here!" after blowing everything to kingdom come.  :)

Those 8 med-packs you see in my inventory weren't typical of this run; I went through a lot of it with only one or two med-packs and I really wasn't sure if I was going to make it, but the levels I put into TaN and Iro helped a lot and I built up my med-pack collection toward the end.

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 DoomRL (v.0.9.9.6) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 17 Hell Baron Lt. Colonel Marine,
 nuked the Mastermind on level 9 of Hell.
 He survived 127293 turns and scored 904497 points.
 He played for 4 hours, 33 minutes and 40 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 1579 out of 1729 hellspawn. (91%)
 He held his right to remain violent.
 He was an Angel of Shotgunnery!

-- Special levels --------------------------------------------

  Levels generated : 11
  Levels visited   : 8
  Levels completed : 6

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

  Cyberdemon's Head
  UAC Star (silver cluster)
  Gambler's Shield
  Fallout Gold Cross
  Hell Champion Medal
  Hell Armorer Badge
  Shottyman Bronze Badge
  Shottyman Silver Badge
  Shottyman Gold Badge
  Shottyman Platinum Badge
  Shottyman Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 94/110   Experience 140890/17
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +0  ToDmg Ranged +4  ToDmg Melee +4

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

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 5)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Son of a bitch   (Level 4)
    Reloader         (Level 2)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Shottyman        (Level 1)
    Army of the Dead (Level 1)

  SoB->Rel->Rel->SM->Bad->MAD->TaN->Iro->SoB->Iro->TaN->Iro->Bad->Iro->SoB->Iro->SoB->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   Malek's Armor [1/3] (22%)
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   super shotgun (9d4)x2 [0/2] (P1)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   phaseshift boots [4/4] (100%)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   shell box (x79)

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

    [a] tactical shotgun (8d3) [5/5]
    [b] shotgun shell (x50)
    [c] shotgun shell (x26)
    [d] shotgun shell (x50)
    [e] shotgun shell (x50)
    [f] small med-pack
    [g] small med-pack
    [h] small med-pack
    [i] large med-pack
    [j] large med-pack
    [k] large med-pack
    [l] large med-pack
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] phase device
    [o] homing phase device
    [p] envirosuit pack
    [q] Arena Master's Staff
    [r] shell box (x100)

-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------

    Acid       - internal 0%    torso 7%    feet 0%   
    Fire       - internal 0%    torso 7%    feet 0%   
    Plasma     - internal 0%    torso 7%    feet 0%   

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

    166 former humans
    122 former sergeants
    87 former captains
    219 imps
    91 demons
    458 lost souls
    63 cacodemons
    32 hell knights
    58 barons of hell
    59 arachnotrons
    27 former commandos
    41 pain elementals
    74 revenants
    29 mancubi
    32 arch-viles
    2 nightmare imps
    2 nightmare cacodemons
    7 nightmare demons
    2 bruiser brothers
    2 shamblers
    1 lava elemental
    1 agony elemental
    1 Cyberdemon
    1 Spider Mastermind
    1 John Carmack
    1 Arena Master

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

  He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
  On level 2 he entered Hell's Arena.
  He left the Arena as a champion!
  On level 5 he stormed the Chained Court.
  On level 5 he found the Arena Master's Staff!
  On level 5 he assembled a tactical armor!
  On level 8 he encountered the Phobos Anomaly.
  On level 9 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
  On level 10 he entered Hell's Armory.
  He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
  On level 12 he assembled a nanofiber armor!
  On level 12 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
  On level 13 he found the City of Skulls.
  He wiped out the City of Skulls.
  On level 14 he assembled a tactical armor!
  On level 14 he ventured into the Spider's Lair.
  He nuked level 14!
  He cleared the Lair, kickin' serious spider ass!
  He overloaded a nuclear plasma rifle on level 15!
  On level 16 he found the Tower of Babel!
  On level 18 he entered the Vaults.
  He nuked level 18!
  On level 18 he found the Malek's Armor!
  He managed to clear the Vaults completely!
  On level 21 he found the Acid Spitter!
  On level 22 he stumbled into complex full of mancubi!
  On level 22 he entered the Lava Pits.
  He managed to clear the Lava Pits completely!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  He nuked level 24!
  He defeated the Mastermind and found the TRUE EVIL!
  Then finally in hell itself, he killed the final EVIL.

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

 John Carmack reloads his rocket launcher.
 You see : John Carmack (severely wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 You are hit!
 You dodge! Boom! You are hit!
 You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 Boom!
 Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You dodge! Boom!
 You use a small med-pack. You feel healed. You are hit!
 You see : John Carmack (mortally wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore
 The revenant dies. Carmack raises his hands and summons hellspawn! You are
 hit!
 You see : John Carmack (almost dead) | pool of blood | [ m ]ore
 The revenant dies. The revenant dies. The revenant dies. The revenant dies.
 John Carmack dies. Congratulations! You defeated John Carmack! Press
 <Enter>...
 You see : a baron of hell (severely wounded) | floor | [ m ]ore

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

 110 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 95 of those were killed.
 1 of those was killed by something unknown.

 14 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 2 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 7 killed the bitch and survived.
 5 showed that it can outsmart hell itself.

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[Klear]

Funny thing:  by level 14, I had two nukes, and I was itching to use them, and I remarked to myself how odd it was that I hadn't seen a single invulnerability so far, (yes, I talk to myself sometimes)  :P  and about two seconds after saying that, I went around a corner and saw two invulnerabilities right next to each other!  I used them to nuke the Spider's Lair and the level afterward, and there was enough left over to claim the Cyberdemon's head.

Pffff... weak =)

But yeah, AoSh is one of the easiest challenges for me as well. My first UV game I beat was AoSh. Somehow when I know I only need shells and don't have to bother with other weapons/ammo, the game becomes easier for me, even though AoSh pretty much only restricts and standard game should be easier.