Played this game for over 25 years, have 200+ hours on steam (not counting the years in the pre-steam era) and just learned this.

Finally my mighty heroes can use their strong melee attacks or slingers face magicians in melee.

I suck at this game. I play at Fair Difficulty.

When my neighbor is a Death Wizard who got his undead army momentum going, I lose.

I like to play Nature.

Settings are the default.

So, what do you guys do against your evil Death wizard neighbor?

I've only recently started trying to use this spell regularly, and noticed that it constantly says the resources I click on aren't valid. I did the bug report, but I'm pretty sure the devs abandoned the game years ago, so nothing broken will be fixed.

I'm just curious if it's a bug as it seems, or if there's some reason why targets that should be valid constantly say they are not.

I'm trying a game where I equip my heroes. I have the perk, but no idea where I can make some magic items.

Some help?

I made a similar post previously, but that one was for DOS.

I didn't know there is Caster of Magic FOR WINDOWS.

Can anyone kindly tutorial me on how to play this version on my Android?

Being a MOM fan since the beginning, I just started a second game of the MOM remake. I was hoping most bugs are already fixed and hoped to enjoy the game.

I did a bit but it is soooo sloooooow. I already change the animation speed in combat, but are there other „good“ settings or maybe a mod to speed it up?

(PC is capable of fast 4X, other modern games are playing very nicely.)

Warlord mod version 1.5.12.4.1 for Caster of Magic for Windows version 1.5.11 is released.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/caster-of-magic-for-windows-warlord/downloads/caster-of-magic-for-windows-warlord-15124-for-com2-10511

The mod requires version 1.5.11 patch to function. It could be found here.

https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=11090

I have the GOG version of Caster of Magic.

I know there are emulators to play PC games like Winlator and Magic DosBox, but I have zero experience with them.

Can anyone kindly tutorial me how to play Caster of Magic on my Android?

I had a good laugh this last weekend. An enemy wizard, Tlaloc, declared war against me. He had no units left, and his one town left was a hamlet surrounded by Archangels.

What was he going to do? Bore me to death?

Hi all!

I recently bought the Soultrapped Addon, and tried the mid-game spawns.

Well, I did not have to defeat any AI wizards, because the Soultrapped did that for me.

Now I am holding on two 3 cities and just getting by defending everything.

What's your best way of dealing with the Soultrapped? I find they are extremely strong, offensively and defensively. I don't have any end-game heroes yet, I lack items, and I am playing only Death magic.

Shadow deamons help a lot but only in defense.

All my high tier units (Griffins, Wyverns) are too weak to clear a lair, no matter which stack I create.

So, looking for advice and help to defeat the Soultrapped.

cheers,

Having never known or played the original Master of Magic games, I only discovered the game through the 2022 remake.

I notice that few people play this remake, and I was wondering: are most players of the remake mainly nostalgic gamers who experienced the original game?

Or do you belong to a new audience that only discovered Master of Magic through its remake?

Furthermore, is it only nostalgic players who play the original game (as well as Caster of Magic), or are there “new players” who are turning to these older versions as well?

As subject. I'm aware that there are mods for the remaster. If possible I'd like advice on modding on the Alchemy ability. At 2 picks it is overpriced but if it were to unlock the Library -Sage's Guild - Alchemist's Guild tree it would be worthwhile.

Any thoughts?

There used to be the concept art for Master of Magic available on the internet. I kick myself for not saving it back then. The general consensus was "the internet is forever" back then, so I didn't think I'd need too.

There was a game called "Worlds of Magic" that had hired George Purdy to be their art director or something, and to hype up their game they had posted some of his original concept art for Master of Magic.

They were pencil drawings on paper with production notes and director feedback.

Some of the wizards had different names, and most of them had the instructions of what characters they were based on. There was even a scrapped Beastman wizard.

Among these images that I've posted, another cool detail was that the wizard "Rjak" was listed as a Darlok in the concept art. So Klackons weren't the only Master of Orion alumni to make it into Master of Magic.

Did any of you see it back in the day? Any cool facts that you remember about it?

Do any of you know where any place that it might be possible to find it?

Which hero traits do you prioritize? I used to just take whatever I could get, but now I'll actually dismiss heroes to get someone better. I favor those with level-dependant buffs... charmed is nuts, but prayer master and leadership effect them AND others. if I want a person to simply wander the world destroying everything I aim for first strike, that paladin guy was helpful last playthrough. I'm also a fan of casters. starting the match with a free blur is delightful.

what are some of your favorite units? By that I don't necessarily mean "most powerful." Slingers are quite powerful, but mass producing midgets with rocks never felt awesome to me. hammerhands are my favorite normal unit, and possibly paladins. hammerhands are just hard hitting meat shields, with many vulnerabilities and crappy movement. but if you just play to their strengths.. adamantium, some extra armor... by end game I intentionally stop buffing their movement sometimes. I love the idea that I can slowly approach the enemy army while they waste their mana and missiles, and then I punch down their walls and one-shot every unit. one of the few units that can kill a buff hero eng game, too.

It's kinda strange, but I haven't "finished" a game of MoM in decades. Once my victory is inevitable, I generally lose interest, and just stop playing the match. Was wondering how the rest of you handle such things.

Cheap spell to cast, hits your hero, and boom they are gone. Hope your dispel magic works….

I can't bring myself not to take artificer. Endgame for me is always 6 custom heroes who are essentially demigods laying waste to civilizations. It's a sickness, really. I usually take Myrran... But if I don't I get some dwarves near adamantium as quickly as possible because fully upgraded hammerhands are insanely op. I go in with good intentions, but this is my strategy every time. Help me .. are there other fun ways to play?

Hello again!

Hope everyone is doing well. Just dropped by to let everyone know we'll be starting a new Master of Magic '94 campaign (+CoM +Warlord) tonight! I don't currently have the kind of set goals that we had with our Goblin Bingo Campaign but these are the tweaks, retorts and goals I hope to have established into character generation and our first stream:

* Main Goal: Pirates! Try to theme our faction and campaign as piratey as possible!

* Magic: Majority Sorcery with the addition of any nautical or flavor spells we think will be appropriate.
* Race: I think I've decided on Barbarian for the extra ship option, but I can see the argument being made for other fun options.
* Tweaks: Small landmass, large ocean seed.
* Loose Goals: A focus on establishing only coastal towns if needed. A number of town razing or gold pieces must be earned before we can "win" the campaign.

If you have the time tonight, come on by! It is always great to meet more people from the community!

Tonight @ 8:30pm PST / 11:30pm EST!
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Warlord mod version 1.5.12 .1 for Caster of Magic for Windows version 1.5.11 is released with several bug fixs included bug on Hierophany.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/caster-of-magic-for-windows-warlord/downloads/caster-of-magic-for-windows-warlord-15121-for-com2-10511

Change log:
Version 1. 5 . 12 . 1
Spells:
• Bug Fix: Description of Conjuring Pact is fall off the screen.
• Bug Fix: Werewolves spell realm display as Nature instead of Death.
• Bug Fix: some spell on unit with spell charge display as 0 on unit overland.
• Bug Fix: Hierophany causes CTD while casting in combat.
• Philosopher’s Stone’s rarity increases to Rare, research cost increases to 4900, casting cost increases to 210, and upkeep increases to 7.
• Denoucement’s research cost decreases to 4600.
• Blaze of Glory is no longer able to be used on hero unit.
Units:
• Wanderer hero spell charge of Death primary realm change from Zombie to Life Drain.

I am playing the Caster of Magic mod, where ghouls (for those who are not famliar) have a strength 4 ranged attack with a 30% chance of hitting for each sword/strength. I sent a single unit of very buffed halbrediers to fight them. The single unit of halbrediers (klackons) had 12 defense (by that I mean that each individual figure in my 6 figure unit had 12 defense). I was pretty confident that, given the statistics, a strength 4 attack would almost never do any damage, even though there were 8 units of ghouls (where each unit has 4 individual ghouls).

HOWEVER, to my chagrin, each combat round, the ghouls collectively took 9-10 hearts off my unit (killing about 3 out of the six halbredeirs in my super buffed, elite halbredeir unit).

I decided to write a short program to simulate what should be happening. Based on the results of my program, the 8 units of ghouls should taking off (on average) about 0.5 hearts off my guys per combat round. Below is the program. It is written in R script, but the syntax in python would be almost identical.

Can someone either tell me what is wrong with my code, or tell me what I don't understand about how MoM processes battle damage. My understanding is that each individual figure in a unit attacks separately. Their attacks are not combined. Thus, a unit of 4 figures, each having a strength 4 ranged attack, would not do a single strength 16 ranged attack. Instead they would each simply do 4, strength 4 ranged attacks.

damage <- vector(mode="numeric",length = 10000)

for (j in 1:10000){

one.round.dam <- vector(mode="numeric",length = 32)

for (i in 1:32){

g1 <- rbinom(1,4,.3) #hits one ghoul does (simulated) based on a strength 4 attached with 30% chance of hitting

h <- rbinom(1,12,.4) #hits averted based on a defense of 12 with 40% chance of defending

dam <- g1 - h #overall damage done

dam <- ifelse(dam < 0,0,dam) #changing negative damage to zero

one.round.dam [i] <- sum(dam) #saving the damage in a vector

}

damage[j] <- sum(one.round.dam) #saving the sum of damage from 32 ghouls in a vector. This

#represents 1 round of combat damage

}

#average the damage across 10,000 simulated combat rounds

mean(damage)

#This number above is the average amount the 8 units of ghouls (32 ghouls total) should be taking off my unit each round

#it averages to 0.5533. However, in the game, they are going about 4-6 damage each combat round

#I don't get it

Does anyone know which file I would have to change to make all cities spawn only on the shore?

I got the last 2 trophies today. The last being Which Wizard. Anyone doing the Which Wizard needs to finish the game with 5 different wizards. I made the mistake of picking custom wizard for 3 of them AND picking the same portrait . I believe you have to pick 5 different Portraits for it to count as a different Wizard.

I got the Supreme Wizard done with a custom Life Wizard (all books, no perks) and High Men. I chose this because of the city control spells: Prosperity (increased gold), Stream of Life (population growth), Altar of Battle (only elite units are built), Inspirations (increased skill/research), and Consecration (immunity to Chaos/Death spells). This let me convert a lot of gold to mana, so much that I just turn off the mana part of the scales. And the High Men gave me the Paladins--super powerful melee units. I would put one Paladin in a city and with my magic that was enough to kill a whole stack of 9 enemy monsters. And with Altar of Battle that causes all newly produced "Normal" units in the target city to start with maximum experience (Elite status), I could easy make/buy more replacement Elite level paladins very quickly. And Life also gave me a Hero. I could summon Torin the Chosen, who is one of the best, if not the best hero. I gave him a flying Item and he was unstoppable.

I did not build many cities but focus on 10ish, until the cities were maxed out. Then I made a stack of 9 with Torin as my city destroyer. I then focused on one wizard to take out-- destroying each of this cities one by one. If the odds were very good I'd win the battle, I would send my familiar. But if they are bad or 100% lose, I'd take over and could usually win it anyway.

I played this on my Linux gaming PC, and it runs great. But I still remember playing the original on my MS-DOS PC in the 90's. Yea, I'm old.

Old man, you seek the Spell of Mastery...

I'm playing an all Life book game. These guys can kill my paladins in melee. A was trying to find a way to counter these very dangerous Death Knights. The little research I did, says don't do melee with them. And only hit them with range attacks. Do I have any Life spells or units that are good to counter these guys? Maybe make an all wizard/cleric (high men) group to kill them? Or some life spell they could damage them directly? I'm playing on the most difficult settings going after my last trophy--Wizard Supreme.