Undead warrior
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The Undead Warriors are tall skeletons in armour with horned helmets and red capes. When attacking from a distance, they throw green enchanted axes. At close range, they slash with their axe.
Description from the manual: As part of the Order's insidious plot to control your world, they've recruited the dead, gave them armour and armed them with deadly magic axes. Now they guard the evil cities and toss their infinite supply of axes at any elf who passes by.
Tactical analysis
Arguably "the jack of all trades, master of none" foe in Heretic. The Undead warrior is fairly fast moving, but not as fast as a Sabre Claw and fairly healthy, but not as much as an Ophidian. It attacks by throwing a pair of axes in succession at the player. Most of the time it throws green axes; medium damage missiles, but occasionally, it will throw a more powerful red axe. There is no way to tell whether it is going to throw a green or red axe.
The green axes will go through other ghost enemies. This allows the player to use a Shadowsphere to become immune to the thrown axes.
The Undead Warrior can also slice you with its axe in melee.
Finally, the Undead Warrior also has a ghost variant, which always throws red axes. They are distinguishable from normal Undead Warriors as they are translucent. Its stats are otherwise identical to the normal Undead Warrior. Undead Warrior Ghosts are, like all ghosts, immune to man made weapons and also both sort's of axe thrown by themselves and the normal Undead Warrior.
However the normal Undead Warrior is not immune to axes thrown by the Undead Warrior ghost and will retaliate against it's ghost version if accidently struck by it. Though such fights are usually extremely one sided as the only way an Undead Warrior can harm a ghost is with it's melee attack.
Data
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Shots needed to kill (Green Axe)1 |
Mean | Standard deviation |
Min | Max |
Player (100% health, no armor) |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Player (100% health, Silver Shield) |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Player (200% health, Enchanted Shield) |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Player Chicken | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Bad Guy Chicken | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Gargoyle | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Fire Gargoyle | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Golem (normal) | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Golem (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Nitro Golem (normal) | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nitro Golem (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Undead Warrior (normal)2 | ||||
Undead Warrior (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Disciple of D'Sparil | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Sabreclaw | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Weredragon | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Ophidian | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Iron Lich | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Maulotaur | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Green Chaos Serpent | ? | ? | ? | ? |
D'Sparil | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Shots needed to kill (Red Axe)1 |
Mean | Standard deviation |
Min | Max |
Player (100% health, no armor) |
? | ? | 2 | ? |
Player (100% health, Silver Shield) |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Player (200% health, Enchanted Shield) |
? | ? | ? | ? |
Player Chicken | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Bad Guy Chicken | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Gargoyle | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Fire Gargoyle | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Golem (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Nitro Golem (normal) | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nitro Golem (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Undead Warrior (normal)3 | ||||
Undead Warrior (ghost) | cannot harm ghost monsters | |||
Disciple of D'Sparil | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Sabreclaw | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Weredragon | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Ophidian | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Iron Lich | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Maulotaur | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Green Chaos Serpent | ? | ? | ? | ? |
D'Sparil | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- These tables assume that all calls to P_Random for damage, pain chance, impact animations, backfire checks, and smoke trails are consecutive. In real play, this is never the case: counterattacks and AI pathfinding must be handled, and of course the map may contain additional moving monsters and other randomized phenomena (such as flickering lights). Any resulting errors are probably toward the single-shot average, as they introduce noise into the correlation between the indices of "consecutive" calls.
- Hardcoded exception to infighting negates damage (excepting indirect damage caused by exploding puff pods).
- While an Undead Warrior is immume to Red Axes thrown by other Undead Warriors, it isn't immune to Red Axes thrown by Undead Warrior Ghosts.
Appearance statistics
The undead warrior is first encountered on these maps:
Game | TNAWN and YRU | BTO | TAASM and BPPT |
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Episode 1 | E1M1: The Docks | E1M1: The Docks | E1M1: The Docks |
Episode 2 | E2M2: The Lava Pits | E2M2: The Lava Pits | E2M2: The Lava Pits |
Episode 3 | E3M1: The Storehouse | E3M1: The Storehouse | E3M1: The Storehouse |
Episode 4 | E4M3: Ambulatory | E4M3: Ambulatory | E4M3: Ambulatory |
Episode 5 | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs |
The IWAD contains the following numbers of undead warriors:
Game | TNAWN and YRU | BTO | TAASM and BPPT |
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Episode 1 | 62 | 100 | ? |
Episode 2 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 3 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 4 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 5 | ? | ? | ? |
The undead warrior ghost is first encountered on these maps:
Game | TNAWN and YRU | BTO | TAASM and BPPT |
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Episode 1 | E1M3: The Gatehouse | E1M3: The Gatehouse | E1M3: The Gatehouse |
Episode 2 | E2M2: The Lava Pits | E2M2: The Lava Pits | E2M2: The Lava Pits |
Episode 3 | E3M1: The Storehouse | E3M1: The Storehouse | E3M1: The Storehouse |
Episode 4 | E4M3: Ambulatory | E4M3: Ambulatory | E4M3: Ambulatory |
Episode 5 | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs | E5M1: Ochre Cliffs |
The IWAD contains the following numbers of undead warrior ghost:
Game | TNAWN and YRU | BTO | TAASM and BPPT |
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Episode 1 | 11 | 16 | 21 |
Episode 2 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 3 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 4 | ? | ? | ? |
Episode 5 | ? | ? | ? |
Monsters from Heretic |
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Disciple of D'Sparil | Fire gargoyle | Gargoyle | Golem | Nitrogolem | Ophidian | Sabreclaw | Undead warrior | Weredragon Bosses: Iron lich | Maulotaur | D'Sparil Other: Chicken | Ghosts |