Ulm, Ulm and more Ulm !!!!

Hawkmoon · #1 November 21st, 2003, 04:36 AM

Ugg...Earth Mother? I know most of this game takes place in our brains...heh heh heh...my imagination can outshine the latest graphics cards...but jeez...just something not in character about Ulm being led by a fat green chick...what about a cyclpos instead...that one eye thing bothers me though....how easy is it to get blinded ?

Clockwork? I love those guys...the description is funny too...I was just spanked by R'Lyeh?-(sp?) again but nearthe end i started using masses of clockwork and they tore through them pretty good....

Earth Power is cool...I tried doing the specific spell thing but it didn't cast what I wanted...is there something I did wrong? My spells all showed up in the parantheses and everything.

As for spell power...it is slow and arduous but empowerment seems to be working good for me so far. The crazy T'ienChi monkeys and the squid faces are still troublesome to me. T'ien Chi kept whacking me with fatige inducing spells...is there a counter for that ?

My buddy plays Abyssia...I ave absolutely destroyed the comp Abyssia time and time again. He's a bit smart than that though...Any item combos that I give heroes or Black Lords that will let them stand a chance against his Demon Lords? As a rule I go hard for Construction 6 and Evo 6..then split the rest of my points between the rest...

Thank you for the detailed response by the way...these Boards are by far the best I've been on.

Hawkmoon · #2 November 21st, 2003, 01:45 PM

Cool responses...let's see if I can get to them...

< A good combo, IMO, is a Fire-9 Dragon pretender. Those flaming weapons are especially painful when backed by good, honest, Ulmish muscle!

Honest Ulmish muscle...yep...that' what drew me to them in the first place...wizards...bah! Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for good bLaster kid. Whoops wrong time period, butyou get the point...

Heh heh....I think of myself as the Pretender also...nope, definitely can't be the fat chick now.

< I was attracted to them in the beginning but I don't find them very good now in the end game. They are too limited in the end game, as are the Niefel theme Jotunheim.

I don't know....by the end game you should have a bunch of souped up Master Smiths and your Pretender plus any special mage types from territories, the more I write the more excited I get about Ulm...I'd like to see them have MR that actually amkes a difference, or be allowed to freely shift defense points around to different provinces to reflect their disciplined society structure. Iron Faith needs some work to make it doable but Vanilla Ulm is here to stay!

True but if you don't have the resources to spend all that cash, it neds to go somewhere and I've had huge success using defense against Eremor which was the bad guy giving me problems when I had 92 pts...

I played Last night for about 4 hours experimenting with this and I'll tell you what...Smiths wearing Earth Power boots and possessing the Aiming Eye are soem Blade Wind unleashing fools. I had 4 running around with about 15 Knights...they absolutely tore through huge amounts of undead...I had 2 Priests also and the Banishment was nice...but accurate Blade Wind is a nasty thing to deal with, let alone 3 or 4 every round.

Also, I got intoa bit of a pickle at one point and retreated all 4 and my Pretender to a castle/lab and had all 5 do Colckwork Horrow....Mu HU Ha Ha Ha...instant army, just add lab....was beautiful.

Are the difficulty levels just for AI decision making or does it actually affect things like resources, magic points, etc ?

Kristoffer O · #3 November 21st, 2003, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by Nerfix:
...or a Void Lord?

Oh wait, i can do that...

I have been wondering one thing about Iron Faith...
Where are the Black Paladins? The Iron Inquistion needs its Black Paladins!

No, but it might need Hochmeisters

Nerfix · #4 November 21st, 2003, 04:29 PM

Only if i knew what a Hochmeister is...

SurvivalistMerc · #5 November 21st, 2003, 04:40 PM

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

Taqwus · #6 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 · #7 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.