Ulm, Ulm and more Ulm !!!!

SurvivalistMerc · #1 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 · #2 November 21st, 2003, 07:31 PM

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

Hawkmoon · #3 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.

Psitticine · #4 November 22nd, 2003, 12:03 AM

"Auto-patrolling" starts with a Defence of 10. It isn't very good compared to a real army patrolling around, especially when that army is made out of speedy and/or numerous troops.

I've caught a few scouts with the auto-patrol, but not many. Still, it ain't bad for free.

Oh, and (just as PvK points out) patrolling of any kind doesn't kill anybody as long as there is no unrest, and then only up to the unrest number.

SurvivalistMerc · #5 November 22nd, 2003, 11:29 PM

I have a problem with iron faith. I tried in the demo to research with these iron faith priests in a drain 3 dominion. Most ulm folks take drain 3.

To my surprise, they weren't able to do but 1 research point a day. That obviously won't work. Does anyone else think they need the smiths' ability to have research unaffected by drain dominion? Or is ulm supposed to change to a magic or neutral dominion to get research even when their mages are still weak and their priests are pretty much just average?

LordArioch · #6 November 23rd, 2003, 06:10 AM

I don't think Ulm's too powerful, but it is still fun. The real problem with ulm is it relies on armor...armor piercing or negating things just devastate Ulmish armies like nothing else, and Ulm is lacking in magic variety, with only one level 3 mage.

Taqwus · #7 November 23rd, 2003, 07:02 AM

Regarding Iron Faith, I don't think it lets you pick a non-Drain dominion. Lousy research is the one huge downside of choosing Iron Faith; you must find a library for the sages if you want to be remotely competitive in research.

Regarding the weaknesses regarding the reliance on armor, fear the magic -- especially air magic, as /all/ lightning attacks are armor-negating, and orb lightning isn't that hard to research and scales with the mage's air power. A Pythium Arch Theurg with a Communicant swarm can toss out lightning like nobody's business, for instance.