[Yvelina]

I used to be an Ulm player until my boyfriend talked and beat me out of it. Ulm has no mobility, and no matter how well you equip your commanders, you are always leaving something. In the above example (Sword of swiftness, scutata, etc...) you get horrible encumberance, unless your thug is undead. Even mounted commanders, even damn fine ones like Ulm's, will quickly run out of steam, and fall to mobs.

And on top of that, it is not as if you can forge much with Ulm. Sure, with Forge of the Ancients, you get great bonuses, but you still have to get the gems from somewhere. And by the time you have the Forge up, enemy magic will be more than enough to rip your armies apart.

And to really rub it in, 'Ulm has the best troops' is total nonsense. Vanheim, Pythium, and C'tis, which have some of the very best mages in the game, have troops that I consider generally superior to Ulm's. Oh, and Abysia, Jotunheim, Atlantis, R'lyeh have trick troops that can cripple Ulm's.

Ulm needs AN AWFUL LOT OF LOVE before it can compare with the other races.