MOM 4 Ever!  Champion slingers with epic leader, 1 shot a pack of skydrakes at a sorcery node.

Good times.

Frogboy -  Would it be possible to recreate MoM within E-WoM customization?

PS:  How did you get it to run?  DosBox?

Eh, yeah....in the last couple of years, I've found 1 game [only], which was THAT addicting: Dwarf Fortress....and it's an indie ASCII game.

It was an absolutely amazing game, and i'm glad Frogboy took the time to demo that for us! Im glad to hear Stardock is still looking back on games for inspiration      

I personally loved the having races be individual units with unique characteristics in MOO II, I'm Sad Galciv didn't have something similar, because in MOO, when you conquered another civilization suddenly you had an entire new race with new characteristics and you had to decide what to do with them: Enslave them, integrate them, or exterminate them.

I personally conquered races who had bonuses my race didn't have: soon my warrior race had soft squishy scientists doing all the research and hard working industrialists doing all the industry, with my own warrior race guys proud to keep doing the war.

I didn't know that was in master of magic, too, but it looks like it was a similar system and I always thought it was a cool way to remind you you really were conquering different races and they didn't just vanish and become you when you beat them.

I think having something like that in Elemental, if you end up having different races, would be cool.

Different cultures of the same race wouldn't quite work since they can interbreed, but it was cool to have an empire with castes.

But then, maybe it's something for Galciv III?

I really hope there will be a way to mod in alternate planes...

It was a real gem of a game.  It had its gameplay quirks though, one you probably just ran in to.  For some reason there was an advantage to being attacked during tactical combat as opposed to initiating attack.  I remember playing in the mid 90's and there were these cheap spirit warriors you could summon, and as long as they were being attacked and not doing the attacking, they could even take out dragons.  I had even lost my super Torin hero, suped up to a high level with maxed out gear, by making the mistake of attacking one of these spirit warrior units (really supposed to be a low-leve unit).  So the tactical part of combat was either getting ranged units or letting the computer opponent initiate melee.  This may have been patched later, but the internet wasn't big back then so it was how I played the game.

Just so much love in the game through and through though.  The music was neat, the graphics were pleasing, exploration was a blast, and the game had great balance in spells and units on the whole.  It was really fun to pick your starting skills because they had such a huge impact on the game.  There was definitely a lot of significant strategy before the random world was even generated.

Unfortunately, that means great potential of wasted sequel. And there will be MoM mods for Elemental as sure as Frogboy has more money than me (which isn't so difficult anyways), which should make things worse for the MoM2 wannabes. Hey, nothing wrong with them being actually succesfull.

I spent sooooooooooo much time playing Master of Magic way back when.  It is still, for me, the standard by which all other strategy games are measured.  One thing you highlighted that drew me into MoM more than anything was the way it invested you in your character/channeler.  You -felt- like you were the one in there hunkered down over a spell book in a dark and menacing tower, researching arcane spells, imbuing artifacts and weapons (one of my favorite aspects of the game that no other has really equalled!) with a measure of your power to gift to your heroes and generals, and by the time you fill up your spellbook, it's hard not to cackle and rub your hands together like some megalomaniacal magician, so drunk were you with power and the unique way in which this game managed to manifest that atmosphere of power through every spell and battle and screen.  I hope that Elemental will reflect that same philosophy.

i am still hoping that along with E-WOM someone will do a true MOM2 someday. 

How come he get to play with fancy graphiics?

Warder

I am very happy to see this video appear.  I am  of course a very big  MoM fan, but this  certainly  helps  others better  understand it even if they missed  the good  ol' days of simtex strategy games.   May they  R.I.P

I can understand why multiple maps (planes in the case of MoM) might seem tangential for EWOM, but there is no end to it's usefulness in modding. I was hoping this would be something that the engine could handle.