MOM Hint II

[pchang]

lone settlers

Lone settlers also always retreat. In fact if I find a settler in a stack and kill the rest of the stack, the lone remaining settler retreats. I have to remember to kill the settler first when I find one in a stack.

[Darkstar]

Ah... MoM. The ULTIMATE in Civ TBS games for in game customization. Got to love it.

Humm... Sky Drakes? I find the game is LONG won way before I get to the "ultimate" in summoned creatures.

Best trick... war gallies with flight and invisibility (spell lock optional, depending on what strategies those you fight employ). Second best trick... well built up heroes.

I've won with all books in every type, maxed out. Except for Death, though, I actually found winning going all out to be a bit of a pain. Probably something to do with my play style. So I end up varing books a bit, more often then not I just like the Nature's ability to terraform too much.

[pchang]

Nature's awareness is another great nature spell. Once you cast it, don't forget to turn off Awareness if you have that going too. No need to waste those manna points.

[ACOLKitty]

Amen to that.

Without it your mages are just food.

[pchang]

Great Wyrms

I finally summoned some Great Wyrms. They are fantastic. Use Summoning Circle to get them near the front lines. They move at 3. With their ability to merge, they are the fastest things on the battle field and can avoid contact at will. If you can beef them up with a regeneration spell (tough to get both unless you really load up on nature spells), they become almost too good. Their only real enemy is cracks call. I wonder if they can merge AND fly? Luckily I also have a flight spell (1 blue book) so I can try it out when I get home.

[ACOLKitty]

That sounds unbalanced as hell.

Tell me if it works.

[pchang]

It works

Yes it works, Great Wyrms with flight get the best of both worlds. I guess that makes sense. They could go to ground to merge and emerge flying.

[ACOLKitty]

Ahhh, another wonderfull balancing element. I will have to give that a try.

[pchang]

Unbalancing combinations

There are a lot of powerful combinations in MOM that would seem unbalancing. However, most of them take a long time to achieve and any player that can take advantage of them really is powerful anyway (lots of cities, and spell power). So, is the capability to summon Great Wyrms and beef them up with flight or regeneration really unbalanced? I don't think so.

[Rex Little]

I agree. By the time I can summon the top creatures (Great Wyrm, Great Drake, Sky Drake, Death Knights, etc.) the game is all over but the mopping up.

[pchang]

regeneration

Regeneration must be REALLY rare. I have played tons of games so far and w/ the exception of the 11 Nature Book games, I have only gotten this spell once!

[pchang]

Early Strategies

Anyway, early on, I find the magic spirit to be the best explorer in the game (moves 2 and over water). The key is to find a lightly defended neutral city. If it looks good, I will send my beginning troops over to try and take it over. This is a big risk, since I denude my starting town of its defenders. I then try to build more city defenders. If it works, I quickly double the size of my empire and economic output. If not, I usually die pretty quickly. This seems to be the only real way to win without cheating at the highest levels.

[pchang]

EMS in Windows ME

Edit the system.ini file. Find the section which says:
[386Enh]

and add 2 lines so that it says

[386Enh]
EMMInclude=D400-E3FF
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF

This assumes you don't already have any EMMInclude or EMMExclude statements in there.

Make sure you have a boot disk. This may hang your machine and you will have to edit it back out. The key are the memory locations. The above will work with a default system, but you may need to play with the memory locations and change them around.

[pchang]

EMS support

There was someone who sent me an e-mail asking about how to put EMS support in a new PC. I can't find the e-mail. Maybe one of you knows who was asking and can refer him here.

[Father Beast]

I was just talking with a fellow I was working with, and he said he just was able to win on impossible the other way. instaed of using 11 spell books, he gets 1 (that's ONE) life book, and uses the rest of his picks on specials.
1 life book
alchemy
artificer
channeller
charismatic
famous
myrran
warlord

with so few spell books, the spell of mastery comes up for research VERY fast. on impossible, the other guys are also trying for spell of mastery, but they can't stand before his armies.

what do you guys think?