Melee attacks against them are hazardous, as they put the player at risk of being clawed. However, provided that the player can get at sufficient range without being hit, the chaingun and shotgun will also work, but may take a while.

Because barons take very heavy beatings before going down, and because their pain chance is low, use of the rocket launcher, plasma rifle, or super shotgun is recommended. Tactical analysis General tactics īaron attacks are dodged easily if the player is giving him full attention, but his Hell-energy fireballs are faster than those of imps or cacodemons and can do very heavy damage on a successful hit. They attack opponents by scratching when close or by throwing green comet-like fireballs when distant. With 1000 hit points, barons are the most resilient of all creatures in Doom save for the cyberdemon and the spiderdemon. These bruisers are a lot like Hell Knights, but look a little different and are twice as tough to kill.' The original baron description was given to the Hell knight in Doom II's instruction manual.Ī baron will utter a loud, trumpeting bull-like cry when it spots a player. They are described in the Doom instruction manual as such: ' Tough as a dump truck and nearly as big, these Goliaths are the worst things on two legs since Tyrannosaurus rex.' The Doom II manual later described them as follows: ' The Hell Knight was bad news but this is Big Daddy. Barons also appear as regular enemies in the later episodes and in the sequels coincidentally, they and their weaker counterparts the Hell knights frequently appear in pairs. The baron of Hell is an enemy monster which resembles a minotaur, faun or satyr with a pink torso, brown goat legs, and a skeletal face.Ī pair of barons, referred to internally by id Software as the 'bruiser brothers,' star as the bosses at the end of Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode of Doom. This article is about the monster in the classic Doom series. For other games, see:

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