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Master Of Magic
The Complete Strategy Guide
Version 2.9 (5/31/01)
Revised by: Dan Simpson (manymoose@hotmail.com)
Original Author: Bryan Lee Jacobson (email--n/a)
Re-Revised for the web by: Cislyn Smith (cislyn@hotmail.com)

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• Notes and recent changes
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1) What is Master of Magic (MoM)?
  • 1.2) What is the latest patch? Where can I get it?
  • 1.3) How can I get the 1.31 patch onto diskettes?
  • 1.4) How can I contact / e-mail MicroProse?
  • 1.5) How can I get the MOM stategy guide?
  • 1.6) Where can I get the latest version of this FAQ?
  • 1.7) Anyway to play MoM multiuser?
  • 1.8) What about MoM 2?
• Chapter 2: Beginner's Guide
  • 2.1) Picking Your Wizard and Race
  • 2.2) First Build Granary and Farmer's Market
  • 2.3) Use a Magic Spirit as a scout
  • 2.4) Conquer Lightly Defended Lairs
  • 2.5) Conquer Neutral Cities
  • 2.6) Always Hire Heroes
  • 2.7) Build Experience
  • 2.8) Harvest Minerals Through Colonization
  • 2.9) Developing Cities (after the Farmer's Market)
  • 2.10) Build High-End Military Units
  • 2.11) When you meet a new wizard
  • 2.12) Save game before ever battle
  • 2.13) Keep a gold reserve when you can
  • 2.14) In the early game, try to maintain peace and explore ruins
  • 2.15) How do I save a game?
• Chapter 3: Game Operations
  • 3.1) What does F10 do?
  • 3.2) What is the difference between the Floppy and CD-ROM versions of MoM?
  • 3.3) The CD version is slow - how do I get it onto my hard disk?
  • 3.4) Why are my ships suddenly moving at only half speed?
  • 3.5) Why can my Trireme sometimes carry only 2 units, sometimes 4 or more?
  • 3.6) What do the two numbers in spell skill mean?
  • 3.7) How does the Spell Skill Bar on the Magic screen work?
  • 3.8) I have spell X, why can't I create an artifact with enchantment X?
  • 3.9) How do I get Summon Champion?
  • 3.10) What can I do with a Death Settler? (Settler killed by a life stealer)
  • 3.11) How does the road "Trade Route" gold bonus work?
• Chapter 4: Strategic Info
  • 4.1) Why aren't my bowmen, galleys, slingers doing any damage?
  • 4.2) Jump the Ocean with Guardian Spirits
  • 4.3) Why do Phantom Beasts do so much damage?
  • 4.4) How do get more heroes
  • 4.5) How does Multi-Figure vs. Shields Combat work?
  • 4.6) Why does my Strength 7 hero get butchered by Strength 4 Swordsmen?
  • 4.7) If a simple unit of swordsmen can beat a hero, what good is a hero?
  • 4.8) Instant Champion Level Units
  • 4.9) 8 Units Better than 9
  • 4.10) Phantom Warriors: The (almost) worthless unit tactic
  • 4.11) Why can "Invulnerable" units get killed?
  • 4.12) Missile, Magic, and Weapon Immunity Can be Penetrated.
  • 4.13) Web - maligned, but useful
  • 4.14) How can I cast spells in a node?
  • 4.15) Dispel Removes Guardian Spirit Protection
  • 4.16) Great Combo: Berserked Phantom Beast
  • 4.17) Great Combo: Berserk and strong First Srike
  • 4.18) Great Combo: Berkserk and Regeneration
  • 4.19) Great Combo: Invisibility + Confusion
  • 4.20) Great Combo: Flier and Call Lightning
  • 4.21) Which units are affected by Warp Wood? (Which are not?)
  • 4.22) Cracks Call killed my hero. How do I defend against it?
  • 4.23) How can I get Treaties started? And keep them in effect?
  • 4.24) Just Cause reduces Unrest
  • 4.25) I've built everything I can - what can I do about continuing unrest?
  • 4.26) Do NOT neglect libraries, sages' giulds, universities, etc.
  • 4.27) Build roads!
  • 4.28) Roads can be used against you (and how to prevent it)
  • 4.29) When a city has minerals, build a Miner's Guild early.
  • 4.30) Get Rid Of Your Own City
  • 4.31) Changing Tundra to Grasslands --DS
• Chapter 5: Favorite Races
  • 5.1) High Men - With Paladins Rule
  • 5.2) Barbarians - Fast Growing, Axe Throwing, Berserk Hordes
  • 5.3) Nomads - Tough Rangers, Horsebowmen, Flying Griffons and Extra Gold
  • 5.4) High Elves - Extra Magic and Longbowmen
  • 5.5) Dark Elves - Magic Power Incarnate
  • 5.6) Lizardmen - Ideal for "Small" Land
  • 5.7) Halflings - Mighty Midgets
  • 5.8) Trolls - A Regenerating Army That You Can't Stop
  • 5.9) Klackons - Kill them on sight? You decide...
  • 5.10) Dwarves - Productive Workers, Deadly Hammerhands
  • 5.11) Draconians - Flying Firebreathers
  • 5.12) Gnolls - Least Favorite!
  • 5.13) Orcs - A Well-Balanced Race
  • 5.14) Beastmen - Another Well-Balanced Race
• Chapter 6: Favorite Magic
  • 6.1) Chaos Magic (Red)
  • 6.2) Death Magic (Black)
  • 6.3) Life Magic (White)
  • 6.4) Nature Magic (Green)
  • 6.5) Sorcery Magic (Blue)
• Chapter 7: Favorite Wizard Starting Picks
  • 7.1) Chaotic Warlord with support from Sorcery and Life
  • 7.2) Famous Sorcerer Wants Heroes
  • 7.3) Quadruple Power Nodes
  • 7.4) Life, Nature, Node Mastery
  • 7.5) Life on Mryyor
  • 7.6) Deathmaster Warlord
  • 7.7) Rainbow, Warlord, Sagemaster, Nodemaster
  • 7.8) Archmage Chaosmaster
  • 7.9) No Spell Books Runelord
  • 7.10) Buy Your Way to Victory
  • 7.11) Cheap Heroes Fast
  • 7.12) Archmage Chaos Channeler
  • 7.13) Alchemist Node Master
  • 7.14) Charismatic Warlord of the Adamantium Slingers
  • 7.15) Champion Crusdaing Warlord
  • 7.16) The Trader --DS
  • 7.17) Some Strange Combinations
• 8) Spoiler (Super) Strategies
  • 8.1) 11 Death books - Wraiths or Shadow Demons
  • 8.2) 11 Life books - Torin
  • 8.3) 11 Life books - Stream Of Life
  • 8.4) 11 Sorcery books - Flying Warships
  • 8.5) 11 Nature books - Gorgons
  • 8.6) 11 Chaos books (theoretical)
  • 8.7) Free Sky Drakes (theoretical)
• 9) Cheats
  • 9.1) Save Before all Battles - If Outcome is Bad - Restore
  • 9.2) Healing the undead
  • 9.3) Exception to Planar Seal
  • 9.4) Determine a Computer Player's Spell Skill
  • 9.5) Estimate Opponents Spell Knowledge
  • 9.6) Invisible defenders throw off the computer...
  • 9.7) Get Out Of Battle Free (Retreat Without Losing Units)
  • 9.8) Avoid The Wizard You Hate The Most
  • 9.9) Discount On Buildings
  • 9.10) Recycle Artifacts For A Profit
  • 9.11) Better treasure through save/restore
  • 9.12) Better heros through save/load repeat
  • 9.13) Use Strategic Combat
  • 9.14) Artifacts With Spell Charges
  • 9.15) Use Plane Shift To Get A Node Without A Fight
  • 9.16) Super Powered Artifacts
  • 9.17) Super Powered Heros
  • 9.18) Change Computer Player Personalities
  • 9.19) Instant Mana and Spell Skill
  • 9.20) Reveal the whole map
  • 9.21) Preventing the Enemy From Attacking -- DS
• 10) Advanced Topics
  • 10.1) Should I exchange spells with the other wizards?
  • 10.2) Be Ready To Destroy An Enemy Wizard Whenever Necessary
  • 10.3) Best Summoned Creatures
  • 10.4) Mana allocation - advantages of allocating zero to storage.
  • 10.5) List of known bugs (in MOM v1.31)
  • 10.5A) Pathfinding Quirks
  • 10.6) What are the "puns" in the weapon/artifact names?
  • 10.7) What is a good score?
  • 10.8) What advantages do the computer players have on impossible level?
  • 10.9) Diplomacy: I can't keep peaceful relations with the other wizards.
  • 10.10) How important is starting race on impossible level?
  • 10.11) Hero List for Master Of Magic
  • 10.12) How can I get MOM to run on OS/2?
  • 10.13) Manual Corrections
  • 10.14) The Best Way to Dispel Enemy Incantations
  • 10.15) MOM is too easy. Make it harder!
  • 10.16) Hit Versus Shields Combat Table
  • 10.17) Futility Combat Table
  • 10.18) MOM improvement suggestions to Microprose/SIMTEX
• 11) War Stories
  • 11.1) Any units with a harder punch than Killer Hobbits?
  • 11.2) Time Stood Still
  • 11.3) Those are some spearmen!!
  • 11.4) I hope he named the outpost "Haroldville"
  • 11.5) Jade, Queen of Darkness
  • 11.6) Early 1.3 experiences
  • 11.7) Another early 1.3 experience
  • 11.8) Lo Pan - Can't Get Rid of Him
  • 11.9) Fast Growing Races For A Better Start
  • 11.10) Flying Invisible Warships!
• 12) Everything Else in the World --DS
  • 12.1) Game Editors --DS
  • 12.2) MOM Links --DS
  • 12.3) Final Words... --DS

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