1 *whistles*  Wow.  What is your spellbook count?

*ponders*  Would Web+Crack's Call work on them?  Failing that, or putting together some kind of equally nasty stack, I think the only counter would be "disrupt the other guy's mana supply."  Or maybe "rush the Spell of Mastery/Time Stop".

On a vaguely related note, I tried Master of Orion.  It looks to be just as addictive as MoM. . .

2

It was 13 books: 3 green, 4 blue, and 6 white. I started with 3 green and 5 white.

In principle web and Crack's Call would work, except  that enemy wizards can't do that unless they know where the wyrms are. So you use them by taking enemies out one per turn. Tunnel to a point where you're next to exactly one enemy, then chomp him. Afterwards, when it's the enemy wizard's turn, he can't see the wyrms so he can't attack them.

No unit, no matter what it is, can survive two chomps from a Great Wyrm, and that's how many you get each combat round.

3 Actually, I think a Hydra could survive two chomps. But it won't survive four, and you can do that with this stack.

4 I suppose if you had a whole stack where most of them have True Sight, that could let you target the Web+Cracks Call, but honestly, at that point you might as well just go with a heavily buffed stack of missile attackers ( 9 adamantium True Sight champion halfling slingers? ).

5 Nobody had that. (And there's no adamantium on Arcanus. That's Myrror-only, and I exclusively owned Myrror.)

6 Actually, I don't think that would work, anyway.  I doubt even that would let you kill both with 5 shots. . . and 5 shots is all you'll get, because the wyrms will kill four in the first turn, by my estimate.  And if you don't kill *both*?  No attrition at all.

Though I suppose if you combined the mega missile True Sight swarm with Web+Crack's Call, that might work.  The Web might buy you a slight bit of time.

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Actually, with that stack I wasn't as afraid of Web and Crack's Call as I was of Dispel Magic True. It was a real relief when I found Spell Lock, I can tell you.

8 I can totally understand.  That said, it makes sense this would basically win the game.  After all, its probably about as hard to get started as Time Stop.  It certainly costs nearly as much mana per turn, and without even most of the tricks you can use to reduce the cost of a single color spell.

Hmm. . . I wonder how these guys would do against Torin with Invulnerability, True Sight, High Prayer, Prayer, and an appropriate set of high end artifacts. . .

9 There was one battle where I lost one of them. The enemy was a bunch of elite pikemen. But they only bagged one, and regeneration brought it back.

10 I've long been a MoO fan, but I never played MoM. All the posts here have been tempting me for a while. And today I got mail from GoG.com, MoM is on sale this weekend for $2.99. Sold!

Any hints for the newbie?

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I made a post here a couple of weeks ago telling how to get into the game.

It's a very complex game, and the learning curve is pretty steep. But if you can accept that you'll be bushwacked in your first few games, and treat them as learning experiences, you'll be surprised how quickly you come up to speed.

12  I've actually found its a similar principle as with MoO, which I only played after MoM.  Though admittedly, MoO is simpler.  It only takes maybe one horrible loss in MoO to get the feel of things, whereas for MoM, its two or three. 

( oh, the MoO loss?  Psilons, opposite side of the map, unmolested and with only one other rival besides me.  By the time I started thinking war, they were already thinking "fleets of thousands of invincible death ships" )

13 The equivalent to that here is "Ariel with High Men on a big landmass." You better respond quickly.