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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I know its stupid but Im an old RPGer. I have more than just a problem of picturing the battle. I tend to feel that the pretender is ME. Actually the fat green chick didnt cause me as much problem as the cute sexy ones. Im just an old fat white guy who cant picture himself as something like Daughter of the River. I guess I just dont have that much imagination. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Ulm, Ulm and more Ulm !!!!
 

Try imagining yourself as a Void Lurker.

Deep Sea Fungus while being yummily hallucinagenic doesn't portray a fearsome god.

Re: Ulm, Ulm and more Ulm !!!!
 

...or a Void Lord?

Oh wait, i can do that...

I have been wondering one thing about Iron Faith...
Where are the Black Paladins? The Iron Inquistion needs its Black Paladins!

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Fat green chick indeed . . . what a way to talk about the Venus of Villendorf! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Ulm is a favorite of mine too. A good combo, IMO, is a Fire-9 Dragon pretender. Those flaming weapons are especially painful when backed by good, honest, Ulmish muscle! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Astral-9 works well too. Ulm's troops are hard enough to injure without having Twist of Fate protecting them as well!

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I'm a total newb, but I thought only sacred troops received bonuses from priestly blessings. Or is that wrong?

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Nope, you're correct. Try playing with the sacred Black Templars from the Iron Faith theme and giving them a good blessing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Ugg...Earth Mother? I know most of this game takes place in our brains...heh heh heh...my imagination can outshine the latest graphics cards...but jeez...just something not in character about Ulm being led by a fat green chick...what about a cyclpos instead...that one eye thing bothers me though....how easy is it to get blinded ?

Clockwork? I love those guys...the description is funny too...I was just spanked by R'Lyeh?-(sp?) again but nearthe end i started using masses of clockwork and they tore through them pretty good....

Earth Power is cool...I tried doing the specific spell thing but it didn't cast what I wanted...is there something I did wrong? My spells all showed up in the parantheses and everything.

As for spell power...it is slow and arduous but empowerment seems to be working good for me so far. The crazy T'ienChi monkeys and the squid faces are still troublesome to me. T'ien Chi kept whacking me with fatige inducing spells...is there a counter for that ?

My buddy plays Abyssia...I ave absolutely destroyed the comp Abyssia time and time again. He's a bit smart than that though...Any item combos that I give heroes or Black Lords that will let them stand a chance against his Demon Lords? As a rule I go hard for Construction 6 and Evo 6..then split the rest of my points between the rest...

Thank you for the detailed response by the way...these Boards are by far the best I've been on.

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Cool responses...let's see if I can get to them...

< A good combo, IMO, is a Fire-9 Dragon pretender. Those flaming weapons are especially painful when backed by good, honest, Ulmish muscle!

Honest Ulmish muscle...yep...that' what drew me to them in the first place...wizards...bah! Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for good bLaster kid. Whoops wrong time period, butyou get the point...

<I know its stupid but Im an old RPGer. I have more than just a problem of picturing the battle. I tend to feel that the pretender is ME. Actually the fat green chick didnt cause me as much problem as the cute sexy ones. Im just an old fat white guy who cant picture himself as something like Daughter of the River. I guess I just dont have that much imagination.

Heh heh....I think of myself as the Pretender also...nope, definitely can't be the fat chick now.

< I was attracted to them in the beginning but I don't find them very good now in the end game. They are too limited in the end game, as are the Niefel theme Jotunheim.

I don't know....by the end game you should have a bunch of souped up Master Smiths and your Pretender plus any special mage types from territories, the more I write the more excited I get about Ulm...I'd like to see them have MR that actually amkes a difference, or be allowed to freely shift defense points around to different provinces to reflect their disciplined society structure. Iron Faith needs some work to make it doable but Vanilla Ulm is here to stay!

<Damn, how rich you are! 31 defenses costs 496 gold, and 92 costs... 4278 gold!!! Do you realize you could have bought a few castles and zounds of troops for the same price?

True but if you don't have the resources to spend all that cash, it neds to go somewhere and I've had huge success using defense against Eremor which was the bad guy giving me problems when I had 92 pts...

<On the other hand, it sounds like Earth Power plus blade winds can turn a bunch of Iron Smiths into a blade hurricane, so that might be worthwhile. It might be a way to deal with some of those squids and anti-mages, though it sounds expensive to me. I'd probably use mercenaries, summons, and cannon-fodder light infantry like tribals against them, sparing my Ulmish troops, since their strengths wouldn't help much against them.

I played Last night for about 4 hours experimenting with this and I'll tell you what...Smiths wearing Earth Power boots and possessing the Aiming Eye are soem Blade Wind unleashing fools. I had 4 running around with about 15 Knights...they absolutely tore through huge amounts of undead...I had 2 Priests also and the Banishment was nice...but accurate Blade Wind is a nasty thing to deal with, let alone 3 or 4 every round.

Also, I got intoa bit of a pickle at one point and retreated all 4 and my Pretender to a castle/lab and had all 5 do Colckwork Horrow....Mu HU Ha Ha Ha...instant army, just add lab....was beautiful.

Are the difficulty levels just for AI decision making or does it actually affect things like resources, magic points, etc ?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, but it might need Hochmeisters http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Only if i knew what a Hochmeister is...