If by well on the field, you mean have my main army murderized by Heat from Hell and Blade wind spam (I really should've rushed Fire Fend and Iron Warriors there...or Gold Warriors [but that's way out of my research league), yeah. Then again, I've got way too many research priorities to juggle, from alt-6 for soul vortex and darkness, blood 5/7 for vampires and vampire lords (and other blood goodies), Const-6, thaum-6,..
I don't intend to surrender quite yet, I'm just expressing the certainty that I am inevitably doomed. I blame my fail expansion phase.
I'll fight to the bitter end (which, honestly, will come soon).
I have learned quite abit. I.E. Don't switch over to counts for blood hunting if I expect Zmeys to pop up overhead, why my reverse communions keep failing horribly, etc.
I also get to examine the viability of this particular LA Ulm strategy (i.e. abandon national troops, switch over to chaff producers asap). Means abandoning fortune tellers almost right off the bat (i.e. after a death and nature random), but the freespawn chaff does free up quite alot of gold for mages and stuff (also, my first stab at a luck strategy instead of an order/prod strategy for Ulm; the extra gems are definitely nice, I'm just going to have to work on figuring out how to expand faster/establish larger/faster blood economies here).