Master of Magic Hint Thread

[Ari Rahikkala]

Report of my current game: As always, I'm the life mage that wants to make his country (magedom?) as good and pleasant place to live as possible, while maniacally killing every other wizard in sight without even trading spells with them... This time I'm trying the "Life supertactic #2", which involves getting 11 life spells book from the start, choosing the Stream of Life as your rare spell and spelling it into your every city. I have observed that it is wonderfully pleasant to live under a dictator that taxes 3 gold pieces/month/person, at least if you get to drink the water of life.

I'm raiding my surroundings (found three mages: one ruthless, one aggressive and one maniacal...) with four elite rangers. Gotta love the pathfinding and speed. Anyway I'll find a tower or research the plane shift soon, so that I can get to Myrror and train some raiders with magical adamantium weapons, of course blessed with holy weapon.

When you have a Stream of Life, it is actually a good idea to micromanage your first city - When building housing, it should be able to produce 350-500 (!) people a month at some stages. So, give it two turns building housing, then switch to some building (with nomads, try to get to Animist's Guild -> rangers) you need. Your city will grow VERY quickly, but at the same time, you can build stuff. And when your city grows, you get more tax revenues, which you can then use to buy stuff (or to convert them to mana - you have to hassle with the alchemy menu a lot, but you'll have a lot of mana then... pity you can't take alchemist with 11 books).

Also remember: When playing with life magic, always boost your new heroes with heroism. It takes away the part where your hero just gets his ass kicked because he doesn't have experience.

Now, as I have written this long (?) post, well... One little hint for everybody whose computer's BIOS takes up 10k of the conventional memory - Try the Techw0rm bootdisk at http://w0rm.8m.com . It takes weirdly much memory management problems away.

Remember: Work hard, work smart. Your future depends on it. Now arriving at sector C test labs and control facilities. I have played way too much HL and MOM lately.

[Rex Little]

Assuming you're in a battle which you can prolong by running or flying, perhaps the most cost-effective spell in the game is Confusion. If it takes effect, the affected unit will eventually attack one of his own troops, as the AI doesn't have the sense to stay away from a confused unit. (If an enemy wizard Confuses one of your units, be sure to keep out of its attack range.) At worst, it'll get killed and weaken the other unit; with luck, it'll kill one or two others before dying. A tremendous return for only 15 spell points.

[Andz83]

bump

[Shadowstrike]

Hehe.... looking back I can see many posts by Strategist..... da DL....

Oh and normal elves are pretty good too.....

[Andz83]

Dark Elves rule

their Warlocks have the ability to cast the Chaos spell Doom Bolt

so do either of the magic spheres (rule, that is)

join CGN!!

[Andz83]

Strategist? why doesn#t he post here anymore? and what is a DL?

[Shadowstrike]

*Frames Andy's sarcasm*

*Proceeds to use sarcasm as window*



Anyhow, we should be getting back on-topic...

Andy: Spam-fight!

[Ari Rahikkala]

OK, back on-topic... I really should use my sig more often. Now I'm just collecting stuff in it, but never showing it. Oh well.

I haven't played so much MoM lately due to my NetHack craze and again breaking down my computer... But, I just thought I would say that I am going to try a few editors' function and do some stuff. As a programming exercise. Don't wait for anything anytime soon. Especially for Windoze .

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- I must have a perverse keyboard - tonic
- Yes, Monk, we all know that Stefu is a cute little furry creature and that you would like to touch his cute little furry balls! - ME!
- *Frames Andy's sarcasm*
*Proceeds to use sarcasm as window* - Shadowstrike

[Shadowstrike]

I'm into Warlords III quite a bit right now....

I think I'm going to try some different races just for fun in MoM, like halflings (amazing slingers!)

[Chaos Warrior]

Now I like this game as you can see by my username.

I prefer playing with chaos books, crushing the enemy with my powerful Lightning spells

[Shadowstrike]

I knew it..... You are who I think you are aren't you......

[Rex Little]

I don't know for sure, but it seems to me that spell point for spell point, Psionic Blast (Sorcery) does more damage than Lightning. And at high levels of Nature you get Call Lightning, which is just devastating if you can stay out of contact with the computer army.

My favorite Chaos spells are Magic Vortex (just as good as Call Lightning if you can play keep-away) and Flame Strike, which lays waste to those big stacks of rangestrikers (priests, shamans, slingers, etc.) that the computer loves to put together.

[Chaos Warrior]

Rex Little: Doom bolt is another very effective spell. I casted it on Provost Harrison several times

[Rex Little]

You're right; I forgot about Doom Bolt. Just the thing to use on that high-level enemy hero with magic resistance up in the high teens who shrugs off Lightning, Psi Blast and the like.

[Sikander]

Ah, MOM. What a wonderful game. The only thing that really bugs me about it is having to reconfigure / reboot my pc to play it. Does anyone know how to get around this?

I tended to play hard level, usually with the Nomads, or when I played in Myrror Dwarves.

I loved building weapons, and always took the two special attributes which made building weapons cheaper. There was an interesting 'feature' when you did this, where you could create fairly substantial amounts of mana by building weapons, and then smashing them. I would build mana in this way until I had a lot, and then build a kickass weapon for one of my heroes. I always set it up so that I could make magic weapons with flight and invisibility for my heroes. Once they had these weapons they were very hard to stop.

The flying (invisible) Warship was another game busting tactic. You could load non-flying, non-invisible troops on board. The warships had good missle weapons, and being invisible they were impervious to missles themselves. As flyers, they could not be attacked by ground troops.

I agree with those who rate this the best Civ spinoff ever. A damn fine game. I got it in a multipack of obsolete games (including MOOII) for about 20$ That was the best value I ever got for software!