Caster of Magic videos

[Anskiy]

How many people record their Caster of Magic playthroughs? I know Hadriex used to and Sapher also does it, but I don't see many Caster of Magic playthroughs on Youtube(or even Master of Magic playthroughs for that matter).

I have started streaming some Caster of Magic myself, I usually do it on Thursday mornings in EST time. Here's my latest playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuyXdHsjxo

[Suppanut]

I like your video, music from Ogre Battle Series (you seem to be fan of this series as there are music from many games in its franchise) are really suit the game tone well, I hope that Saravy would integrate function to insert music play list into Caster of Magic 2.

I think video would be more engaging if you talk to audience and explain some decision too.

[Seravy]

Well, you can replace the game WAVs in the music folder, or you can disable music and play whatever else you prefer in an external music player...

[Suppanut]

I use steam version. Where could I find music folder?

[Anskiy]

Yeah, I know of no Music folder, I see a lot of lbxes in the game folders. They are likely the game data in compressed form.

I am glad you liked it, I do try to explain my strategies but sometimes they're pretty straightforward, like in my run I basically rushed to Chimera and then backed them up with Gargoyles, all while intentionally developing a friendship with Lo Pan so that he would have my back. Arguably I could be doing more though.

[Seravy]

Oh, I thought we were talking about CoM 2.
There is no music folder in CoM 1.

[Suppanut]

Thank you for explain in detail, I will wait for CoM 2.

But then, why it could not use mp3 instead of wav? is there any size limit for wav fil in CoM2?

[Seravy]

The solution I found worked only for playing wav files, not for mp3, as far as I remember.
There is no size limit.

[Suppanut]

@Anskiy, I may teach latin to the pope here but I think that I have some thought about Chaos

1) Chaos common enchantment is good but long term expensive (no 0 mana upkeep enchantment) so up to what kind of main race you play, you may have to decide early to spend your early MP on summon or enchantment
2) Chaos is as Saravy always tell us, it has weak resistance stat, so by midgame your summon would be vulnerable to life/death/sorcery mid and late game until you access to chaos surge and key buff option of chaos like flaming blade could not buff summon (although their attack power not lacking in strength that it would be needed)
3) Chaos has some gatekeeping spells that make a lot of difference between have and not have. Chaos Surge is must have spell if you using summon or doom mastery as long as enemy of yours are not pure chaos wizard. Apocalypse also great spell that make a lot of different if you have it. With it, you would unstoppable as long as you have mana.
4) Doom Mastery is great if you plan about using chaos channal from the start, it is even better if you choose race with high resistance and has Chaos Surge. Otherwise it would be more of burden than boon. Doom Mastery would be very situational spell if you play multi-colors wizard (sorry, I am too get used to magic the gathering which has similar magic design) as it would make all new magician units lost ability to cast spell in other realm completely.
5) Volcano is your friend, it produce power for you, create physical obstacle to buy you time in defend if you play turtle, it destroy precious resource enemy have, and if you think your mountain is too lame due to no mineral you could just raise volcano there again and again until get mineral you want. and if you don't want to hurt anyone, you could just raise volcano in tundra and polar area. So if has casting point left and don't know what should be casted, just raised volcano
6) Chaos wizard need a lot of mana and the most casting skill the better you would do battle, you would never have enough of it. And most of its iconic spells are to burn mana into bonfire during combat. I see you try to avoid spend mana in battle but seem not quite successful.
7) Mystic Surge is spell that would turn your brave soldiers into suicide squad to send them to "honorable discharge". Best way to use it is to cast it in the turn that unit would become your martyr to reduce possibility of enemy wizard to stop it with some nasty spell. I see ai use it quite wisely as it give very strong vibe of surprise when it uses. I see you use it on something that quite expensive like chimera, I think it more suitable for something like halberdier (especially chaos channalled ones) or cheap multi-figure units with high mobility or units which lost most of its value for you strategically. You could use it as much as you wish if you use a lot of human wave as that unit would loss most of its value after that battle, so better left them in glorious death than living cripple and pay compensation later. (perhaps for chaos warlord's roleplay?)
8) Chaos also another realm which could play flying warship (through chaos channal/doom mastery), it has good strength in mid game as fighting units and many chaos enchantment suited them very well, but I think its best feature is its ability as transporter. It could carry everything with it including other ships (although ship that not fly on its own could not participate in land battle) and other flyers. While units being carried by warship, those units would not spend any movement point even if those units are flyers. you could create chain of pre-placed flying warships to transport 7 units of any kind across continent within single turn!

[Anskiy]

Good points, definitely agree about Chaos units having low or mediocre resistance. So for facing a Myrran foe I would definitely want Chaos Surge to mitigate that. I don't find Volcano very useful in the hands of a player since a Chaos wizard almost always has something more important to cast, but it could definitely help cities by puilling minerals yeah. Mystic Surge is amazing but yeah I probably should use it on things with decent durability, like halberdiers. Flying galleys/warships are also a pretty good idea for overworld transport.