NM, Jim answered the quesion,

[ 10-13-2002, 08:17 PM: Message edited by: Seraph ]

I have seen IIRC said many a time, what does it mean please?

If I Recall Correctly.

Some other lesser known ones,

AFAIK: As Far As I Know
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion

Thankyou Dundee [img]smile.gif[/img]

A quick synapsis of all that has been posted above: Golems really suck.

I have parsed cre.bif and found the following:
Jim is right. Minor corrections and additional info:
1. Brain Golems aren't immune to slashing (they have 25 against slashing). I can confirm it. Mordekainen Swords are able to kill Brain Golems.
2. There is no actual difference between Adamantine and Iron Golems. They differ only in weapon resistances. Adamantine golems have 90 against all weapons, Iron Golems have either 75 against all weapons (De'Arnise Keep, Windspear Hills) or only 20(!) against all weapons (Suldanesellar).
3. Iron and Adamantine Golems have 125 against fire (both magical and non magical). In the other words, fire heals them. Do not use fire based spells and weapons with fire attack against them!
4. Lesser Clay Golems and Flesh Golems have 125 against normal cold but no resistance to magical cold(?!)
5. The only kind of golems that is IMMUNE to certain weapons is the Clay Golem. The golem has 100 against piercing, slashing, and missile. Other golems are more or less resistant to weapons but they are not immune.

I have to disagree. I killed numerous Iron and Adamantine golems with Melf's Minute Meteors.

Some closing points:

The reason why you're taking them down using Melfs Minute Meteors is because each one inflicts 1D4+3, +3 fire damage, with the enchantment equal to 5. This means that the golems will resist the elemental damage but not the physical damage from this weapon.

A few points for Radek regarding golem weapon immunity:

Sand golems are immune to a weapon type, that being missile damage.

The Brain Golems in the Mind Flayer lair in the Underdark do have 100% resistance to piercing and slashing. The Brain Golem you're looking at is "GOLBRA01" which aren't actually used it the game, but only have 25% resistance to piercing and slashing. The only area where Brain Golems are encountered is within the Mind Flayer lair, and those are called "UDGOLEM", which do indeed have 100% piercing and slashing resistance. I've recently played through this part of the game and I couldn't damage them using a 2-handed sword or katana so I'm certain about this [img]smile.gif[/img] .

I highly doubt that Iron/Adamantium Golems are immuned to fire as they will report the immunity in the dialogue box; and not only that, but the damage dealt by the fire still lists in the dialogue window, and if I am not mistaken, Melf's Minute Meteors actually strike as +6 enchanted( 75% sure) with a +5 THACO bonus.

especially when you are one yourself: for some reason, when I change into an iron golem (sorc. lvl 18+ shapechange) i get beaten up by all sorts of warparties (maybe because my THAC0 is laughable so i cant finish them off very fast) but still!