My own "enlightenment" came about by reading a book from the library about how to use comps, (due to buying one on a whim without ever using one before) as there was a list of browser based games in a chapter on learning to use the web, and hey presto this was the one I luckily chose to try first 
You mean BattleMaster is in a printed book somewhere? Now that is cool. You don't by chance remember the book?
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