I got banished
I haven’t played Master of Magic for like, 10 years or so. And man, this game is fun. You get to be a wizard who has magical powers, and you command an army and build a civilization of one of many races like Orcs, Klackon, Humans, and Elves…not to mention the awesome Lizardmen and Draconians! This game is totally awesome! It is kind of like games similar to Civilization and I hear that it is based on the Master of Orion universe (loosely). But I think this game is really excellent. It was made in 1994 and it works on the program DOSbox (DOSbox is an MSdos emulator that lets you play old school DOS games on a PC). Here’s a link to DOSbox if you want to check it out. If you want to check out some info on Master of Magic and want to download the manual and spellbook, here’s a link to a cool abondonware website. Yeah so let me tell you about why I posted that picture of a dragon dude getting banished. Basically that dragon was me, my wizard, I named myself “Overidon.” It was great. I started with two units, one unit of orc spearmen, and one unit of orc swordsmen. I was pumped. I found these ruins supposedly guarded by giant spiders. I recently finished recruiting some shamans to help my soldiers and I was excited to kill some spiders. Well, what happened when I got to the ruins was that I didn’t just have to fight some giant spiders, there were magical sprites there too. Sprites kind of look like white butterflies and they shoot magic at you. I was very worried. So almost instantly the Sprites opened fire on my shamans and killed all of them in like three hits. I was horrified. I imagined my poor shamans having their limbs ripped off and heads exploding from Sprite magic. Blood flying everywhere. So I tried to have my spearmen and swordsmen run away, but they all died. I bet they were trying to run into the mountain but they got run down by the giant spiders. Huge webs of sticky silk slime pulled at their legs and made the swordsmen trip on the rocks. Then one of the giant spiders must have opened it’s mandibles wide and munched off the heads of the swordsmen one by one…leaving spinal cords squirting out people juice for several minutes.
This is what it looked like when I wanted to build more shaman!
But I wasn’t discouraged. I decided to build more forces, this time multiple units of swordmen and shaman, and even a unit of spearmen. And I ordered them to do some reconnaissance on one of the nearby Klackon villages (Klackons look like big beetle people). And I left a single unit of swordsmen to protect my home village. Well, when I got near the enemy village I had by units check on the strength of the forces there, and guess what? My troops were outnumbered and outclassed. So I ordered them to return to base and regroup. But then, out of nowhere a unit of Klackon raiders decided to attack my city. I tried to build more troops, but it was no use. They were just 2 days away. And my army was 10 days away. So I cast spells on my unit of lonely swordsmen, giving them iron skin and increased strength. But when it came time to fight the Klackon halbrediers, they got slaughtered. The Kackons must have chopped my orc swordsmen’s arms and legs off. And eaten the dismembered bodies. I bet there was blood and guts everywhere. So then I lost the battle and the raiders instead of just destroying a building or two, they decided to hurt the great wizard, Overidon! And they banished me to another realm. So now I have learned a valuable lesson. Don’t leave just one group of soldiers defending your home base. This was a lesson hard learned. But I hath learned it well!
-Tyler