[PrinzMegaherz]

Originaly posted by Vicious Love
Speaking of which, you've disregarded Ulm's sappers, their guardians' castle defense bonus, and their production bonus. Not a bad set set of perks.

Sappers are good if your enemy is castleling. In my comparison both nations use rather expensiv fortifications, so castleling is not an option. Same goes for castle defense bonus. If your expensiv castles are under siege, something is wrong.
But against other nations those points count of course.

Originally posted by Vicious Love
I thought armor still protected against trampling? If so, tramplers would be particularly effective against high defense units, but not low defense, high protection Ulmish infantry.

I'm not sure. I thought I read here in the forum that trampling does special damage, propably armor piercing

Originally posted by Boron
finally you have no missile weapons so while you advance x-bows ( sappers ) , arlabests and some smiths doing battle magic may already cost you a heavy bloodtoll .

Satyrs are cheap and make good chaff. Put one Size 3 thing in their group so the arbalestes which have the "fire large creature" command will attack them too. Place your other tramplers a little bit behind and you should survive the first volley with no losses to the main group. Maybe there are enough satyrs left to take the cavalery charge.

Originally posted by Boron PrinzMegaherz did you already think out a basic strat for pan NE ?

Hm, I use the earth mother with fortified city, dominion 6, Earth and Nature 4, Order 3 Productivity 3, Drain 1.
You don't need a blessing, and you can upgrade her with earth boots and treelord's staff to earth 5 nature 6 if you want her to do the magics, or give her amulet of reinvigoration + boots of the messenger and some decent armor and let her go.

Alternativly, you could keep neutral magic and have a dominion of 4. Pan has cheap temple so this might balance the weak dominion.

[ August 06, 2004, 01:52: Message edited by: PrinzMegaherz ]