[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Yes. It was thanks entirely to Ulm that I didn't have to fight off a second wave of giants, which likely would have ruined me. Ulm now controls much of Jotunheim's territory. The thing that granted me the ability to fight off first wave of giants wasn't my poor research choices, but the awakening and equipping of my cyclopian pretender, Hillary Rodham Clinton who was more than a match for the few giants around my capital. Since I was capable of hiring enough mercenaries, and tramplers bigger than giants, I was able to clear those territories of mine.