STR18: Delta Bunker (Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos)

Stronghold maps 11-20
STR11: Tunnel STR12: Dangoo Desert STR13: Inferno STR14: Orbit STR15: Armageddon STR16: Frozen STR17: Slaughtered STR18: Delta Bunker STR19: Tarstone Fortress STR20: Dusk
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 (11 - 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 STR18. For other maps with a non-standard slot, see Category:Non-standard map slots.

STR18: Delta Bunker is the eighteenth map of Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos. It was designed by James Cresswell (Phobus) and Gianluca Cilento (Remmirath), and uses the music track "lam_lost" by Damian Lee (Lexus Alyus).

This level uses the "Limit" mode, where the objective is to prevent too many monsters reaching the deadlines.

Walkthrough

Map of Delta Bunker

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

All players begin in a large room; the deadlines are the two green pads behind you, and a maximum of 100 monsters can be allowed to pass through them. The weapon and powerup pads will be on your right, and the ammo and health pads will be on your left; you will need to return here between waves to restock and collect new weapons.

Monsters will initially spawn from a magma pool on the east side of the level; they will head west until they reach a curved slope then climb up it before proceeding south to the deadlines. From wave eight monsters will start spawning from a second magma pool on the west side of the level.

Unlike previous levels, no extra weapons have been left for you to collect; kill some of the shotgun guys in the first wave as quickly as possible and collect their shotguns. Watch out for the archons of Hell that appear in wave seven; they can fire fast-moving meteors that deal heavy damage if not dodged, although they can injure other monsters.

Wave	Enemies	Weapons and ammo given	Armor and powerups given
1	12 shadows 12 shotgun guys	-	Two stimpacks
2	14 zombiemen 12 demons	Box of shotgun shells Box of bullets Shotgun	Two stimpacks Armor
3	28 zombiemen 16 shotgun guys 14 rocket zombies	Three shotgun shells Three clips Box of shotgun shells Box of bullets	Four stimpacks
4	20 imps 16 shotgun guys Eight demons Two barons of Hell	Four shotgun shells Four clips Two boxes of shotgun shells Box of bullets Chaingun	Four stimpacks
5	24 imps 12 demons Six nightmare demons	Three boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets Shotgun shells Super shotgun	Six stimpacks Backpack
6	20 imps 14 shadows Eight barons Eight Hell knights	Three boxes of shotgun shells Three shotgun shells Two boxes of bullets Rocket launcher	Eight stimpacks Armor
7	20 imps Eight barons Six nightmare demons Four archons	Four boxes of shotgun shells Two boxes of rockets Box of bullets Railgun	Four stimpacks Two medikits
8	32 imps 24 demons 16 catharsi 12 phase imps	Six mines Four boxes of shotgun shells Four boxes of rockets Three gas canisters Landmines	Three stimpacks Three medikits
9	24 spectres 18 knights 10 nightmare demons	Six boxes of rockets Four boxes of shotgun shells Three energy cell packs Three energy cells Three gas canisters Two shotgun shells BFG9000	Four stimpacks Four medikits
10	40 hellions Six arch-viles	Six boxes of rockets Four boxes of shotgun shells Four shotgun shells Two rockets	Four stimpacks Six medikits Megaarmor

Completing this level will award 1,700 bonus credits.

Secrets

There are no official secrets on this map.

Bugs

The teleport destinations in this level are not flagged to appear on Ultra-Violence or Nightmare skill levels; as a consequence, players are not sent to jail when they run out of lives on those skill levels and instead respawn at the start point. In multiplayer, this bug also prevents players who have been jailed for being late to the game from leaving the jail by using an extra life item.

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	1346
Vertices	5734
Linedefs	8822
Sidedefs	16572
Sectors	3204

Things

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

Single-player
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5
Teleport landing	10	10	10	0	0

Cooperative
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5
Cooperative start	8
Teleport landing	10	10	10	0	0

Trivia

• The MAPINFO lump names this level Smoldering Caves.