Master of Magic

[Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe]

Anything with a few books of sorcery rocks

Life, Death, Nature and Chaos requires a lot of books to get all the good and rare spells. Sorcery is the only kind of magic that you can be very happy with, with only a couple of books.
Very good common easy spell; how many fights have you won with phantom warrior only in the begining? Is there a more valuable speel in battle against another wizard that counter magic? Don't you feel relieved when you find disjunction true?

1 spell book of each is... interesting :)

Having very few spellbooks is almost an exploit to research Spell of Mastery fast, and win very fast . But less fun I got to say.

Favorite retort; Myrran, Divine/ Infernal Power, Archmage. I always focus all my magic power on skills, never on mana or research: I got mana either with mana crystals or with alchemy (convert gold to mana), and research is done by building; and I like skils, and being able to cast spell fast.

Louis,

[Ii Naomasa]

I loved Master of Magic and agree that a redone version that featured a Total War battle engine would be very, very cool.

Instead of going off on my memories of my own playing the game, I'll relate a story about a secondhand experience. A friend of mine who used to work with us came across MoM a few years after its release and fell in love with it. She'd play it religiously. In order to tell her heroes apart quickly, though, she tended to rename them after whichever friend or coworker he/she looked most like. So she'd often come in in the morning and start regaling us with tales of her latest in-game conquests. So we'd here about how 'Andy' took over this town, or how 'Neal' died in battle, or how I got this great magical sword. Nothing like sitting at work and someone telling you they're sorry but you died last night. :)

[the Count of Flanders]

Isn't Age of Wonders (1 & 2) based on Masters of Magic? I really liked the Age of Wonders games.

[Togakure]

Many of the features found in Masters of Magic can be found in games that came out after it. I've always wondered if MoM was indeed a source of inspiration for many of the turn-based strategy games that followed.