Ulm, Ulm and more Ulm !!!! - Page 3

SurvivalistMerc · #21 November 21st, 2003, 04:40 PM

Can those constructs go underwater? If they can, cheers to mindless beings attacking mind flayers underwater. ;P

Taqwus · #22 November 21st, 2003, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Can those constructs go underwater? If they can, cheers to mindless beings attacking mind flayers underwater. ;P

I haven't checked them all, but Mechanical Men can, so it wouldn't surprise me if others could as well.

SurvivalistMerc · #23 November 21st, 2003, 05:47 PM

Someone else may already have posted this, but one of my ulm strategies is to use spies.

Raise unrest in the AI's home province to over 100.

Now...deal with what army he has fielded.

He can't make more of his decent troops. At most you'll be fighting independent province recruits. That is soooo wonderful imo.

Need to get some water breating rings for some races, though. Still, I find that this strategy rocks.

Joonie73 · #24 November 21st, 2003, 06:37 PM

How do you combat spies or stealth preachers?

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Someone else may already have posted this, but one of my ulm strategies is to use spies.

Raise unrest in the AI's home province to over 100.

Now...deal with what army he has fielded.

He can't make more of his decent troops. At most you'll be fighting independent province recruits. That is soooo wonderful imo.

Need to get some water breating rings for some races, though. Still, I find that this strategy rocks.

SurvivalistMerc · #25 November 21st, 2003, 06:41 PM

Patrols. But it costs you population. And ulm spies I think are kind of hard to catch.

Bossemanden · #26 November 21st, 2003, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Patrols. But it costs you population. And ulm spies I think are kind of hard to catch.

I was under the impression that patrolling would only kill population if there was unrest. Does patroling troops actually kill population indescriminately?

PvK · #27 November 21st, 2003, 07:24 PM

No, only up to the "unrest" number. It looks to me like Defense (or maybe just a higher random chance per province?) also gives patrols that can catch sneakers in Doms II. At least, I see many more scouts being caught in provinces without patrols (both AI and my own), than I did in Doms I.

BTW, my dragon pretender has devoured a few earth mother pretenders, without using special equipment. "They're talon-lickin' good" (tm). They were AI mothers though so they didn't have wicked equipment, and I think they may have had afflictions from sitting on my armies before the dragon arrived.

PvK

SurvivalistMerc · #28 November 21st, 2003, 07:30 PM

I routinely send ulm spies into 25 defense provinces and very, very rarely am discovered. Try sending 4 in at once.

They only cost 30 gp each.

SurvivalistMerc · #29 November 21st, 2003, 07:31 PM

Also, if my spy is instilling an uprising, there will be some unrest.

Hawkmoon · #30 November 21st, 2003, 09:24 PM

I like it! I like it all! Forward my minions of Ulm. We shall show these upstart Pretenders who the one true faith is. Mu Hu Ha Ha Ha......

Seriously, you guys have all shown that there are strats that Ulm can take advatange of to equal out their supposed "3rd rate status"...I will have some sort of meager battle report up after my game tonight against Abyssia led by Dryton.