Master of Magic was released on PC\u00a0in September 1994. Today,\u00a0May 2013, practically 20 years later, I can finally\u00a0say that I have\u00a0played\u00a0a perfect game\u00a0with my first 100% score finish\u00a0in\u00a0Impossible mode.<\/p>\n
To think I almost threw the towel\u00a0on this\u00a0one when I ran into an enemy wizard right after I\u00a0lost all\u00a0my initial troops trying to take an adjacent neutral city (which meant I was now trapped in a peninsula with only\u00a0my starting Gnoll\u00a0city)\u00a0within the first 30 turns. I feared the worst when I had to reject Gunther and\u00a0Brax early on, but\u00a0I lucked out and got Shuri with Agility\u00a0soon after. I got her\u00a0geared well enough that by the time\u00a0the wizard\u00a0turned hostile I\u00a0was barely\u00a0able to hold off against a stream of Gorgons and Rangers. I got Zaldron as my second hero and he almost died many times to Rangers and Horsebowmen attacking\u00a0my capital.\u00a0Once Shuri’s gear was done, I went on the offense and took the continent, which was\u00a0full of cities.\u00a0On my approach\u00a0to finishing\u00a0the last city of the first wizard\u00a0off, I ran into the second wizard and ended up getting Awareness. This\u00a0allowed me to avoid fighting multiple fronts as I then\u00a0took over the majority of\u00a0Arcanus fighting one wizard at a time.\u00a0Getting Serena\u00a0with extra spellcasting\u00a0geared up helped hold territory as I pushed across Arcanus.\u00a0 Zaldron basically sat at home for most of\u00a0the game\u00a0and provided a minor boost for my overland casting. This was one of the few games I somehow did not get Phantom Beast or Spell Blast in my spellbook, so I ended up using Phantom Warriors\u00a0all game and had to keep\u00a0the enemy\u00a0wizards banished to avoid spellcasting\u00a0retaliation. However,\u00a0I got Haste later, so Shuri was able to take down nodes in Myrror as part of the mop-up to clear my spellbook and\u00a0research the Spell of Mastery.<\/p>\n
The question is: Now what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Master of Magic was released on PC\u00a0in September 1994. Today,\u00a0May 2013, practically 20 years later, I can finally\u00a0say that I have\u00a0played\u00a0a perfect game\u00a0with my first 100% score finish\u00a0in\u00a0Impossible mode. To think I almost threw the towel\u00a0on this\u00a0one when I ran into an enemy wizard right after I\u00a0lost all\u00a0my initial troops trying to take an adjacent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}