Planetar and Solar

A Planetar
Difficulty	unknown
Attacks	Weapon 4d4, Weapon 4d4, Gaze blind 3d6, Claw 2d8, Spellcasting (arcane) 4d6

A Planetar
Difficulty	unknown
Attacks	Weapon 4d4, Weapon 4d4, Gaze blind 3d6, Claw 2d8, Spellcasting (arcane) 4d6
Base level	29
Base experience	unknown
Speed	16
Base AC	-10
Base MR	80
Alignment	15 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare, appears outside of Gehennom
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Large
Resistances	death magic, fire, cold, shock, sleep, poison
Resistances conveyed	None
A Planetar: can fly. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. can see invisible creatures. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is a lord to its kind. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. can pick up magical items. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. never leaves a corpse. requires a +4 weapon to hit.
Reference	SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line2000

A Solar
Difficulty	unknown
Attacks	Weapon 5d4, Weapon 5d4, Gaze blind 5d6, Claw 5d8, Spellcasting (arcane) 5d6

A Solar
Difficulty	unknown
Attacks	Weapon 5d4, Weapon 5d4, Gaze blind 5d6, Claw 5d8, Spellcasting (arcane) 5d6
Base level	39
Base experience	unknown
Speed	16
Base AC	-10
Base MR	80
Alignment	15 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	Very rare, appears outside of Gehennom
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Large
Resistances	death magic, fire, cold, shock, sleep, poison
Resistances conveyed	None
A Solar: can fly. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. can see invisible creatures. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is a lord to its kind. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. can pick up magical items. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. never leaves a corpse. requires a +4 weapon to hit.
Reference	SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line2000

Planetars and Solars are angelic beings in SLASH'EM which are both essentially stronger versions of Archons. They possess the same speed, alignment, armor class, magic resistance and spellcasting abilities of the Archon. They merely have a higher base level and their attacks do more damage, with the Planetar doing twice as much damage, and the Solar doing half again as much still. Like Archons, they are peaceful for lawful characters, and can even appear as minions for them, either through prayer or sacrifice.

Strategy

As with the devas, Planetars and Solars constitute a major reason that lawful is an easier alignment in SLASH'EM. However, in the case of these monsters, one should keep in mind that it is extremely unlikely that one will see these monsters before getting the Amulet, even with SLASH'EM's extended Dungeons of Doom. Thus, there is no reason to fight Planetars or Solars, even if one encounters them. A player in speed boots will be slightly faster than them, and wands of teleportation can work wonders in making them go away. Thus, just as one should keep a wand of digging handy for a chance encounter with a giant shoggoth, one should keep a wand of teleportation handy for these monsters. They are not covetous, so should not teleport to meet you.

If one insists on fighting these, either hope that your character is truly maxed out in fighting capabilities (+7 artifact weapon, Expert weapon skill, AC around -45), or have a cockatrice corpse handy. They are guaranteed a shield of reflection and resist just about every type of damage anyway. Using the disarm technique or a bullwhip to disarm them is a good way to reduce the damage they do, as well as bag yourself their guaranteed artifact weapon. They are also not immune to drain life, so the un-reflectable wand of draining can also be useful against them. Even with this, though, they remain truly formidable opponents.