[Norfleet]

Welcome to the club. I can't really make base Ulm work well for me, either.

Ulm does seem slightly dependent on steamrolling people early - the problem being, Black Plate Infantries are by no means the supreme groundpounders, having a number of ordinary nationals that mow them down easily without the aid of magic.

All in all, I find that Ulm is very much dependent on finding indy mages, and Ulm's wonderful forging skill falls a little short when you realize that your smiths can only forge the same things, having no randoms. IF Ulm is slightly less constricted, but loses the drain immunity and thus either must give up the drain points, or suffer.