STR08: Tropical Paradox (Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos)

Stronghold maps 01-10
STR01: Introduction STR02: Too Young to Defend STR03: Swamp STR04: Asteroid STR05: Twilight STR06: Downtown STR07: Sandstorm STR08: Tropical Paradox STR09: Volcanic Installation STR10: Skyfire Research
(01 - 10) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 99 Secret maps: 50 52 54 56

This level occupies the map slot STR08. For other maps with a non-standard slot, see Category:Non-standard map slots.

STR08: Tropical Paradox is the eighth map of Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos. It was designed by Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw) and uses the music track "lam_bloo" by Damian Lee (Lexus Alyus).

This level uses the "Core" mode, where the objective is to prevent monsters from destroying a computer core.

Walkthrough

Map of Tropical Paradox

Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials

You start inside a building in the center of an island, which contains the core and all the item pads; there are two entrances to the north and south that monsters will use to reach the core. A shotgun and shotgun shells are located in front of player one as the level starts.

There are five spawn points around the island marked by floating marble cubes. Monsters will initially spawn from a point on the south shore, but from wave three they will also spawn from the south-east corner and from wave four they will also spawn from the east coast. From wave eight, two more spawn points on the north coast will activate.

This level involves combat with a wide range of monsters, finishing with cyberdemons and hectebi. You can use the rocket launcher liberally in this level as you are supplied with many rockets; the plasma repeater you receive in wave eight can make short work of crowds and lone enemies, but it needs time to spin up and spin down and firing it continuously will cause it to overheat. On the final wave, prioritize the cyberdemons as they can reach the core and destroy it very quickly.

Wave	Enemies	Weapons and ammo given	Armor and powerups given
1	10 imps Four shotgun guys Two cacodemons	-	Five stimpacks
2	23 imps Six Hell knights	Four boxes of bullets Three boxes of shotgun shells Three shotgun shells Super shotgun	Five stimpacks Armor
3	28 imps 25 zombiemen Eight shotgun guys	Three boxes of bullets Three boxes of shotgun shells Chaingun	Six stimpacks
4	16 imps Eight catharsi Four mancubi Four shadows	Eight boxes of rockets Three boxes of bullets Three boxes of shotgun shells Rocket launcher	Six stimpacks Armor
5	Nine blood demons Eight knights Eight cacodemons	Eight boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets	Seven stimpacks Backpack
6	12 suicide bombers Eight dune warriors Six knights Six enhanced cacodemons	Eight boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets	Seven stimpacks Armor
7	20 imps 10 knights Four barons of Hell	Eight boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets	Three stimpacks Two medikits
8	80 imps Eight dune warriors	10 boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets Two energy cells Energy cell pack Plasma repeater	Four stimpacks Two medikits Megaarmor
9	10 fusion spiders 10 imps 10 catharsi Four nightmare demons	12 boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets Two energy cells Energy cell pack	Three medikits Two stimpacks
10	Three hectebi Two cyberdemons	14 boxes of rockets Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets Two energy cells Energy cell pack	Five stimpacks Four medikits Megaarmor

Completing this level will award 700 bonus credits.

Secrets

There are no official secrets on this map.

Speedrunning

As this level does not contain official secrets, the NM 100S category is redundant.

Current records

The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on February 21, 2022.

Statistics

Map data

Things	417
Vertices	4398*
Linedefs	5745
Sidedefs	10574
Sectors	1237

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 4398.

Things

This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Single-player
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
4 shotgun shells	3
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Teleport landing	12
Power core	1

Cooperative
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
4 shotgun shells	3
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	8
Teleport landing	12
Power core	1