i installed dosbox but it wont run - it always says illegal command when i try installing/running it with dosbox...is it because i use a 64bit windows?

ah damn it, i just spent 8 hours playing master of magic without even noticing how the time went...that game is just great...hopefully elemntal will be able to capture its spirit and the cool heroes

there is unfortunately no save option... is there anyway to save the game without leaving it(before tough battles etc.)?

naaa the problem is you never really know whtas inside..sometimes it tells you there are warbears in a ruin - and then there are 9 of em, or there is 1 warbear and 3 earth elemental or wyrms (well thanks...) moreover i usually use the save rather in terms of hero or artifacts getting...

damn it...a stupid unit of phantom warrior just killed my hero - WTF - he had 30 attack, 35 defense, same resistance, and lots of hit points, breath attack, vampiric attack, flaming attack and whatver everything - they killed him with 1 hit - i know their attacks pass defense, but WTF?

yeah, but there are 6 in a squad meaning they can do a maximum of 1 damage?! my hero has like 20 hit points so this shouldnt happen....

and on the other hand if i do have phantom warriors on my side, they are not even able to kill a damn unit spearmen

moreover all my other "squad" units dont loose 1 single man when fighting phantom warriors (berserkers) and my hero has far superior attributes...so maybe it was also a bug from the game, cause my hero was just gone after 1 single attack

yeah, i dont have a save option...the deleted it for whatever reason...you can only quit and then continue the last game once you log back in...

i recently saw somewhere a multiplayer edition for master of magic where you could play with several people online (turn for turn) - that would be major cool...

lol always on that forum, when discussing such topics, i realize how old you all are that you play(ed) these games...must be the forum with the oldest gamers on the web

as said that still doesnt explain

- why phantom warriors never kill shit, not even a unit of spearmen when fighting for me

- how a unit that can do 6 damage maximum kills my hero with 20 hits instantly...?

and WHY OH WYH do i

a.) always start in crap starting positions

b.) never get the good heros i want

c.) are orks pink and not green and dont have any cool special units HA??

I seems to recall that the phantom warriors were more like 3 or 4 swords each, not 1.

Moreover, if you were fighting in a sorcery node, they get +2 ATT/DEF as all sorcery creatures in a sorcery node.

I use them often against other units and find them usually more cost effective that a direct damage spell of the same cost.

Note that they *will* fight worse against spearmen, as those usually come in squads of 8 for most race, so they need 8 hits instead of 6 or 4 to kill, and they get 8 units to counter attack agains their 0 def and 1 hit point.

Phantom warrior are a very good way  to kill or at least damage a heavy squad or hero, they might not win everytime against spearmen, but they will do as much damage on swordmen, pikemen, or heroes and monsters as long as they don't have immunity, so you might say that they scale with the defence of their target.

damn i would REALLY love an master of magic update with some betther graphics (not new, age of wonders quality is enough) within the warhammer setting...now that would be cool...its a shame they never released their code.... but there are lots of civ mom mods around

Elemental armour only applies to, I think, chaos and nature foes/magic. So Iron skin is generally better, EA is situationally better.

After reading this thread I now have to play through a game of MoM

Funny how a game so old remains better than the vast majority of games that come to market these days.