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[Tormuse]

Never thought I'd get a Gargulec Cross on Nightmare! mode, but AoOC let me do just that!  :D

There was a fair bit of luck at the beginning, though.  I started in an Arch-Vile complex with an armed nuke and there was an Invulnerability sphere near my starting location.  All I had to do was wait out the nuke and pick up the sphere at the last second and the Arch-Viles made me jump up to character level 5!  I had Vampyre before I even faced the Angel of Death!  :D

In previous versions, Pain Elementals were my best bet for healing myself with a Vampyre build, but I'm finding it really tough to farm them for healing this time.  :|  I get that the Lost Souls charge you in a similar manner to the way they do in the original Doom and you can sidestep to get them to fly past you, but they frequently seem to change direction suddenly, or end their charge when they're right next to me and hit me anyway.  (Maybe there's something about their AI that I haven't figured out, or maybe I just haven't mastered dealing with them yet)  They also do more damage per hit than they used to and Vampyre works very differently, giving you scaled hitpoints based on the toughness of the enemies, rather than giving you a flat 3 hp for each one.  (The in-game description of the Vampyre trait should probably be changed)  This means that each time a Lost Soul hits me, it undoes the hitpoints gained from the last four I killed.  :|

So, I found it much more convenient to farm other monsters.  :)  (They give you more hp per kill anyway)  :P  At the end of each level, I would deliberately leave one corpse intact so it could raise itself as many times as I needed it to and then smack it down with my Azrael's Scythe (or a Combat Knife, to avoid accidentally gibbing them)  :P  until I got myself back up to 200% health.  I wouldn't have been able to win without this strategy, considering I was down to my last med-pack at the end.  (Largely due to two Arachnotron caves that really taxed my resources)

It would have been nice to have a nuke so I could go for a full win and possibly get the Veteran Angelic badge, and I probably could have gotten one from the Mortuary, but I wasn't feeling remotely confident enough to try for that and just decided to play it safe.  (Which is a bit ironic, considering the name of the challenge is Angel of "Overconfidence")  ;)

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 DoomRL (0.9.9.7) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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 Tormuse, level 11 Arch-Vile Major Marine,
 defeated the Mastermind at the City of Dis.
 He survived 56724 turns and scored 313322 points.
 He played for 54 minutes and 45 seconds.
 He opposed the Nightmare!

 He killed 317 out of 317 hellspawn. (100%)
 This ass-kicking marine killed all of them!
 He was an Angel of Berserk!
 He was also an Angel of Overconfidence!

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

  Levels generated : 4
  Levels visited   : 1
  Levels completed : 1

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

  Medal of Prejudice
  UAC Star (bronze cluster)
  Gargulec Cross
  Heroic Gold Badge
  Berserker Silver Badge
  Berserker Gold Badge
  Berserker Platinum Badge
  Berserker Diamond Badge

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

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

  Health 107/70   Experience 51688/11
  ToHit Ranged +0  ToHit Melee +6  ToDmg Ranged +0  ToDmg Melee +9

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

  Class : Marine

    Ironman          (Level 1)
    Finesse          (Level 1)
    Tough as nails   (Level 2)
    Brute            (Level 3)
    Berserker        (Level 1)
    Badass           (Level 2)
    Vampyre          (Level 1)

  Bru->Bru->Ber->Bru->Bad->MVm->TaN->Bad->Iro->Fin->TaN->

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

    [a] [ Armor      ]   nothing
    [b] [ Weapon     ]   Azrael's Scythe (9d9)
    [c] [ Boots      ]   protective boots [2/2] (100%) (A)
    [d] [ Prepared   ]   combat knife (2d5)

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

    [a] blaster (2d4) [10/10]
    [b] green armor [1/1] (5%)
    [c] combat knife (2d5)
    [d] combat knife (2d5)
    [e] combat knife (2d5)
    [f] combat knife (2d5)
    [g] combat knife (2d5)
    [h] chainsaw (4d6) (T)
    [i] 10mm ammo (x100)
    [j] rocket (x9)
    [k] power cell (x50)
    [l] power cell (x50)
    [m] large med-pack
    [n] phase device
    [o] envirosuit pack
    [p] power mod pack
    [q] technical mod pack
    [r] agility mod pack
    [s] bulk mod pack
    [t] acid-proof boots [0/0] (100%)

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

    Bullet     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Melee      - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Shrapnel   - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Acid       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 85% 
    Fire       - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 
    Plasma     - internal 60%   torso 60%   feet 60% 

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

    5 former humans
    7 former sergeants
    8 former captains
    46 imps
    25 demons
    52 lost souls
    16 cacodemons
    14 hell knights
    38 barons of hell
    50 arachnotrons
    3 pain elementals
    6 revenants
    20 mancubi
    25 arch-viles
    1 Angel of Death
    1 Spider Mastermind

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

  On level 1 he stumbled into a complex full of arch-viles!
  On level 1 he encountered an armed nuke!
  On level 1 he invaded the Unholy Cathedral!
  On level 1 he found the Azrael's Scythe!
  He then destroyed the Unholy Cathedral!
  Level 2 was a hard nut to crack!
  Then at last he found Dis!
  On level 8 he finally defeated the Mastermind.

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

 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You are hit! Boom! You are hit! You are hit! You are hit!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You feel like
 a killing machine! You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind flinched! You need to
 taste blood!
 You need to taste blood!
 You hit the Spider Mastermind. The Spider Mastermind dies. Congratulations!
 You defeated the Spider Mastermind! Press <Enter>...
 You're going berserk!

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

 246 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
 189 of those were killed.
 3 of those were killed by something unknown.
 34 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
 And 7 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.

 13 souls destroyed the Mastermind...
 1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
 11 killed the bitch and survived.
 1 showed that it can outsmart Hell itself.

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[Rajhin]

That wa a lot of luck. Too bad some challenges only doable that way.

[appuru]

Nice run! I'd recommend Vampyre for lots of challenges involving dual angels if you enjoy using it. It's very powerful for any N! AoOC runs.