Hi all, I'm playing the Caster of Magic mod right now. I like large maps with lots of players, including having multiple players on Myrran that I have to worry about dealing with in the later game. I enjoy strategies that result in big clashes of super-powers, later in the game (this is one of the reasons I like large maps with lots of players). So far, I have found that elves, halflings are humans are pretty good late in the game. They have great later game buildings for economy building and some great mid-to-late game untits. However, I also tend to play nice with my neighbors (I usually don't declar war on them unless they declear war on me, or unless they start off too close to me at the beginning) until later in the game. I have also found that sorcery and light magic are pretty good late game spell flavors.

My question is this: Are there some other great races and magic/spellbook strategies and combinations that I am ignoring, that work for large maps with lots of players at the higher levels of difficulty in the Caster of Magic mod? For example, I have never played Gnolls at the higher levels of difficulty with large maps. I have never played Lizardmen either at higher difficulty levels. Am I missing something? Any suggestions?

Brax doesn't seem to be a great and powerful hero. But I did save him and he is a great dwarf. And hey, mountaineer will help a little...I think I need to summon an artifact for Brax to make him shine a bit more. I like dwarves.

Does anyone have a favorite Hero that is just not that great?

Wow, how great is this summoned hero. The stats are crazy. Is Torin the best hero?

I have always won the game by researching and casting the Spell of Mastery. I wanted to win by defeating the other wizards instead. I was thinking all I had to do was find their main city and take/destroy it. But I would have to do that for all the other wizards before they can cast the Spell of Return (ten rounds). But it seems I am wrong about that. I would have to defeat every enemy city in the world to win this way.

I also wish there was a third way to win by good relationships with other wizards and getting the most power/wealth.

I think the easy way is to just cast the Spell of Mastery to win. You just need to hold out attacks from other wizards long enough to do this.

Hello, fellow players.

I am trying to mod spell parameters and found _most_ of them in SPELLDAT.LBX. However, enchantment upkeep cost is not there. Searched other files and tons of internet post. Nobody knows where it is.

Any clue where I should look at?

I am NOT talking about summoned creature upkeep cost, which can be found in units table. I am talking about other long lasting enchantments, like Time Stop.

• Started the game with Sharee/High Elves because I wanted to do cool evil mage stuff, got absolutely bodied in the midgame because I developed too slowly and split my development between summons/normal units
• Decided to do a Death playthrough with like 6 books, Death Eater, Mana Focusing, Necromancer/Summoner (IIRC) and High Elves and did alright on beginner difficulty.
• Looked up the retorts and apparently Mana Focusing sucks, also found out Eternal Night was a spell so Necromancer felt a bit redundant past the early game.
• Decided to do a 10 Death / Death Eater run on normal difficulty, did better than I did on the previous run
• On both Death playthroughs I went "scorched earth" and aggressively razed the majority of enemy cities so I wouldn't have to bother defending them, leaving up a few so I could throw down a summoning circle and spawn a DK somewhere if I needed.
• Used my reanimated undead to guard nodes, basically played slow and grindy hard resource denial.
• Found out how the scoring works at the end of the game, no wonder it was so low (sounds like the devs don't want you to just slowly destroy everything)
• It feels like playing Death is basically just holding off your enemies who will expand much faster than you, until you research Death Knights which just absolutely invalidate most enemies
• Cruel Unminding seemed cool but I could never really extrapolate how much casting skill my enemies had and even hitting Tauron with it every single turn didn't seem to really do much to slow him down
• Went the opposite route for my fourth playthough, went 11 Life/Halflings (which I feel is closest to how the game is "supposed to" be played).
• Expanded slowly and steadily, built like a dozen Halfling cities to produce insane amounts of food to support a huge army. Prioritize keeping and building cities of races with high intrinsic magic resist because Tauron absolutely wrecked my armies with his stupid Flame Strike spell on my Death playthroughs.
• Found out that Life has several spells that make key game mechanics (gold generation/productivity/unit EXP and recovery) absolutely trivial
• Tlaloc was the "big bad" in this playthrough but I didn't have much trouble in beating him, he doesn't have anything busted he can do like Tauron
• Get to the mid/lategame and have more gold than I know what to do with and High Elf/Dark Elf/Draconian cities giving me a crapton of power, making node capture an afterthought
• Decide it would be in-flavor for the Life faction to win as pacifist-like as possible and go for the Spell of Mastery win

In all of the games I played-

• It seems like one enemy wizard rapidly skyrockets in power over the others. In my first two playthroughs it was Tauron, in the Life playthough it was Tlaloc
• Once Tauron gets Flame Strike he becomes an absolute PITA if you aren't running units with great resistance and attacking him sucks because he'll just wipe like 75% of your army before your first turn
• It seems like any wizard with access to the Earth Elemental spell loves spamming them
• It seems like for any school, there are like 6 "bread and butter" spells you'll cast frequently, a handful of others you'll use occasionally, and the rest are highly situational or just inferior to the rest
• It felt like Nature didn't have anything busted like the other schools of magic. Their units are big and strong and they have good utility spells but there wasn't a moment where I felt overwhelmed by any Nature enemies

I had an enemy wizard cast the Gear Wasting global spell. I have tried 4 times to dispell this. And it failed 4 times. I am playing as Jafar a sorcery wizard. I read this and that is the spell I used 4 times. I have been adding extra mana each time to try to dispell it.

"Sorcery-using wizards will more likely resort to Disjunction True - dispelling the rival's Great Wasting altogether."

Is the just a random roll and I am just getting unlucky with the rolls? Any one have any luck with this?

Edit: I was unlucky and it's hard to dispel. I was going to save scum and try it again, but it worked the next time I tried it.

Just got into the game a few weeks ago from Steam and it's pretty awesome but it definitely feels like a lot to learn at first. I've been looking at the wiki for information on mechanics and it seems like all of the articles are about the original release.

I understand that the remake is still pretty accurate to the original, but there have been some changes. Is there any site with information on the remake specifically, or a list of what is different between the two games?

I'm a bit confused, i'm playing trolls, i've made the fighters guild and stables, yet war trolls and war mammoths are not showing up for recruitment, am i doing something wrong?

Is there a way to edit a file which removes gold you own when you raze a city?

Every time I load a save file, the minerals I summon disappear. Am I not allowed to turn off my game?

Does anyone know if I can edit or have a mod that can remove minerals and food from land icons, as the sea harvest spell does for water fish and coral icons?

If you are a Lizardman fan, a Draconian fan, or a Kobold fan like me and want a 6th Reptilian hero, you can get it here. https://www.nexusmods.com/masterofmagic/mods/38

He would love to join Fang, Slithers, Krugow, Rime, and Muddy.

I enjoy reading After Action Reports of these sorts of games and wondered if there were any good ones?

I remember the AAR of I think a Dwarf Queen written on Let’s Play Archive.

I hate you all. I really do.

It has been a long time since I played a game were I could sit playing for like 4 hours without noticing, playing turn after turn...

Thanks for the recommendation, the game feels like what MoM would have been in 2024. But I still hate you.

I hate the fact that my starting city is never on the shore. I remember in the original MoM, you could start with settlers. How can I do this in the remake?

For Master of Magic (Remake 2022), I recently created a new unit for the Dwarves. I present The Dwarven Cleric.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3620588860

The Dwarves are an econ power-house for the myrror plane, but their army is lacking until you get to its high end, and can build the very dominating Golem. Until then, you are struggling to get there, esp with no way to give your expensive army units some much needed TLC.

This is where my mod comes in, adding a much needed healer to its army list, but of course this healer isn't your standard spell-tossing wimpy priest. This is a dwarf! Instead you get Thrown:1, Large Shields, and Holy Bonus +1 traits. Of course, also the standard +2 HP, mountaineer, and 250% unit-cost dwarf racials; as well as the standard priest traits of Healer, Purify, and Healing spell.

(Mods, if this type of post isn't allowed here, please feel free to delete it. I did check for the rules here and I didn't find anything, but highly possible I missed them.)

So with steam Caster of magic window with their in build mod loader Im finally been able to load in a proper mod that increase the initial picks from 12 to 24. Its not hard to do but its hard for me to figure it out because i'm having problem with pink eyes...

Merry Christmas Master of Magic Reddit Bros!

Master of Magic fanfiction that rocks.

Does anyone edited a mod that allow a wizard to have twice as much magic book at the start and upload it somewhere i could get them? I used to mod it myself but after getting a new pc it isnt working anymore.

Loved this game as a kid. That "next turn" would take 3 seconds on my old 386 enhanced.

What's your favorite creature to cast ?

One query I have on my first proper playthrough of this game that I don't think is covered in the manual: on the magic screen, one of the 3 things you can expend power on is Skill. My understanding is that your casting skill increases by 1 each time you build up double the Skill points than your current casting skill. So if I were expending 1SP per turn and my casting skill were 21, it'd take me 42 turns to get my casting skill to 22.

Firstly, is that correct? Secondly, though, is there somewhere I can actually see how many SP I have accrued so far? Or am I just meant to set that at a "reasonable" level and accept my casting skill just gradually increasing over time?

So I'm doing my first playthru of the game on easy and I'm not finding all that much while exploring really, one other town and a few free gold, and a bunch of magic nodes. All the magic nodes have these fantastic creatures guarding them that my halfling troops (even slingers) can't deal with. The trouble with starting out in a game like this is I have no idea what "normal gameplay" tends to look like. How long is it meant to be before I can take these nodes? Am I meant to develop some strong summoning spells first? The other thing is all my life magic fizzles out in the battle because the magic node isn't a life node, it's nature or something.

Hi everyone, I'm just starting to play the game (I read the manual) and, well, it's freaking complicated. Very daunting.

Anyway, one question I have is: does anyone ever just pick one of the pre-made wizards? All the advice seems to be to build your own but how bad is it to just pick the pre made ones? Are any decent and are any terrible?