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Originally Posted by Kobal2
Full army Legions of Steel is a mild improvement over regular legions of steel. And unlike CBM Ulm, BR Ulm has to actually research it and spend gems on it. (Usually 2e per cast, in fact, until they can get conjuration 3). I refuse to believe that paying gems for legion of steel on the full army and at a higher research level is broken.
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Okay, that's definitely not true. Legions of Steel is an incredibly powerful spell already for heavily armored troops...except it's next to impossible to use. The casting AI just
refuses to cast it on armored troops, instead casting it on armorless mages who don't even benefit, archers, etc. The only way I've gotten it to work is 1) putting the casting mages right in the middle of the troops they're supposed to buff, and 2) not having any other mages/archers within range. This hugely limits your army deployment and leaves your mages vulnerable to random arrows, spells, etc.
A battlefield wide version is
ridiculously better, though not as ridiculously better as the current CBM version.
That said, I
like the theme of Ulm having an unstoppable wave of steel. I think a more thematic nerf might be to
really cut back on Ulm's battlefield magic. Ulm is supposed to ban magic outside the forge and religion right? So make it that Master Smiths can't cast in battle, using a second shape that has no magic. That way, Ulmish troops are ridiculous, but have to depend on their forged relics, cap only priest smiths, and the weak black priests for battlefield magic.