Questions regarding my strategies

[Dedas]

The thing with Ulm is that your capitol isn't that valuable. It won't matter what fortress the enemy goes for he won't be able to break any of them fast as they all got high defense.

Raiding provinces won't be so effective against Ulm either because when you got some fortresses up your troops and mages cost almost nothing in gold.

Citadel has admin 40 meaning that if you place it will it can pull lots of resources from adjacent provinces plus unlocking the resources in the province it is in. Compare that to building 800 gold fortresses with admin 5 on every province. Yes, much, much more gold is needed, and that gold you need to expand your territory.

Every fortress you build also has what I call a command sphere, extending 1 province in every direction. This is very important to Ulm who has such slow units. I always try to build the fortresses so that they overlap each others spheres shaping a defensive net and also sucking any resources in between; so no need for low admin forts. The fortresses also has enough defense to withstand one turns sieging, enough for the other fortresses with overlapping spheres to help out. This systems also makes raiding a nightmare for the enemy.

Thanks to the great admin you always have supplies for your troops when you steamroll your enemy slowly to death, erecting fortresses every second province.

As for enemy SC's and small thug teams they aren't such a biggie as they hardly scratch your fortresses. Yes they can lock them down but you have so many that such strategy is mostly a waste of time.

I've tested these tactics in several MP games (on the net and off) with great success.