This is coming in April? That would be fantastic! What a blast from the past that would be. I will buy it fior sure!

Outcast, Master of Magic and Master of Orion 2 were shown on the promotional slide so yes MOM is coming in April.

*lowyhong dies of cardiac arrest*

[uses necromancer magic]
you are now a undead minion

MoM? Yay!;)
Outcast? Never heard of it. [no, really, never]
Wow, a minute after his death. Impressive timing Necromancer! ;)

[adds master of magic to must buy list]

It even has a lich portrait just for you! Wearing a golden crown to boot, iirc.

Necromancy & golden crown don't make one automatically a lich :p
He does look fiendishly enough though.

This makes me think of my old very very old evil adventuring party days.
There was 6 of us.
we had a orc barbarian,human male fighter/blackguard,human female rouge,drow female wizard,dwarf cleric and me the party necromancer.
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I can never remember there names. So i place there names down on a stone rock. that i left with my keys for my desk where every they maybe.
One time the orc and dwarf had a drinking contest.After a hour of no winner.
the rest of us left.The blackguard when to a weapon shop.
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Me and the girls when upsides to count the loot.
skip ahead half a hour later.
We were still busy counting the loot and when a fire started.
After are great a escape.which was not all that epic.jumping out a window that is less then a foot higher then the ground.
We where unable to save all the loot.
A good pair of wizard robes,leather pants, and a wand of reanimated dead was lost.
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Then we regrouped up with the rest of the party.
Only to find out the orc and dwarf started the fire after giving up on there drinking contest.
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If you didn't guess yet we ran out of that village as fast as we could.
Shoot and run was the plan.After a lot of damage to the building along with a few dead villagers we made are escape.
That was just one of the many things we did.
We did have some fun times at camp.Good old evil times.

Hey, I hadn't played the game in 15 years or something. I actually had Skeletor from He-Man stuck in my head as how he looked. You know purple hood around a skull rather than a purple hood around red glowing eyes on the field of black. But, at least I remembered the crown!

Master of Magic... Could it be? Is my long search for the game finally coming to an end. this is a great day indeed.

Dying for Master of Magic as well, one of my all time favorite games. Still have the strategy guide with all the spell descriptions. Will def be buying that and a copy of MOO2 that works on Windows 7 :)

You're probably thinking of Wraith. And yes, that's one way to win really quickly, especially since unless they have really high resistance, units killed by Wraiths are likely to rise up as undead to serve you. And remember that the undead version of normal (as in non-summoned) units have FREE UPKEEP!
My personal strategy is to start up an Artificer, Alchemy, Myrran guy with lots of Sorcery (blue) books, equip a single wizard-type hero with ultra-powerful artifcats (with Flight, Magic Immunity, and even the bugged Invisibility.) These take a looooong time to enchant, but then the guy (or girl) can proceed to pwn everything in sight. With a few levels under the hero's belt, even Sky-Drake filled sorcery nodes don't stand a chance (though they're still a real pain to clear.) Until you get the actual invisibility spell though, keep away from Nature nodes with lots of spiders - the artifact version won't stop them webbing the hero, and then he's wyrm food.

Flying_invisible_warships.