[littlemute]

Originally posted by Cohen:
Yes save earth gems!
Your Smiths can forge great Elemental Armor ... well ... best suited for summoned commander instead of your national since they're pretty frail.

I'm not sure what summoned commanders are, but I still only have the demo so.

What Ulm seems to be missing, at least to me (NEWB), are fodder troops. The Ulm guys you can buy are good, but cost SO many resources. All the games I've played with ULM they have gold gold gold but not enough resources to really get a big army togther. So what I tried to do was build a fort on a land with barbarians so that I could draw the resources and make mass amounts of cheap barbarians. Then slapped the cheiftans, who are just complete fodder as well as the troops, with the black plate, helmet and a cheap 2 handed sword. Of course by this time it's turn 39... ^_^