Hmmm, I'm not 100% sure from your posts if you're asking about Abyssian strategies to deal with EA Ulm, or more general advice. Sounds like you've got 2 main problems, elephants and archers/good infantry.
Here's a good thread with just about every effective way to deal with elephants:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...=&fpart=1&vc=1
As to the troops you've got several options to deal with arrows ranging from simple heavy, shield bearing infantry (basically ignores arrows even with no magic support, but hard to come by in EA) to battlefield enchantments like arrow fend or storm. Also, anything which just generally makes you tougher will help against arrows as well, so consider things like mass protection, legions of steel, an astral bless, etc.
Outside of the arrows EA Ulm has fairly offensive units, a lot of dual wield weapons and no shields so depending on what you've got available and what he's fielding consider things like blade wind, bows of war, archers of your own, etc. as well as the more generally effective falling flames etc. Thugs are going to get torn up from concentrated arrow fire and dual wielding swarms so they're not the best choice until you can start fielding real SCs.