Ugh... Ulm. I've been trying desperately to come up with a winning strategy for black forest Ulm. It works, but not well enough. It seems to be a mish-mash of mediocre units thrown together with almost no synergy. That theme badly needs a 180 gold DDD necromancer with some research ability. Then we'd have a theme.
Iron Faith Ulm on the other hand, is pretty decent. The problem is that Ulm's infantry is at best on par with grove guards (cost/unit), and superior magery and flanking would carry the day. Ulm badly needs cheaper crossbows, and not those slow alabests or whatever they are called.
I know in theory Ulm beats Marignon, but as a Marignon player, frankly it never happens that way. The Emor rolling scenario isn't theory, but a reality. It's not so much Vanilla Emor, but the other two themes that are the problem. In our playgroup, we've Banned both the Vampire Queen and the two Emor alternate themes. Everyone knows the theory behind beating Emor (banish, holy pyre, solar rays), and there are ways to kill a Vampire queen, but we believe that just because it's POSSIBLE to beat a strategy dosen't mean it's not overpowered.
Anyways, let's not turn this into another Emor/VQ thread. Everyone already has an opinion, it's probably already been stated. I only posted mine because I've never adressed the issue before. It's Banned in our games, the rest of you can do what you like
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1) New Era don't get any archers.
2) New Era cataphracts have 20 prot, not 18.
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1) Everyone gets archers, you just have to go look for them 
. Would be nice if New Age got a longbow centaur, but alas we only get independant archers.
2) Fixed.
[ April 27, 2004, 23:46: Message edited by: Blitz ]