Re: Black Forest - Ulm
Well, playing with Misfortune-1 I got a unique hero on turn 3 with Black Forest Ulm! Don't remember the name but his title was Blood Count or Blood Marshal (IIRC). Basically a hero with good combat stats, Blood 2, Immortal, wields a Great Sword, comes with heavy armor, and I believe he is undead as well, with the standard undead qualities. I don't think he was ethereal.
Overall, pretty nasty customer.
I have to agree with the early supercombatant stuff. I wanted to try things out real quick before work and started a game where I used a POD with blood and death. Took two provinces and then blood hunted with both a mage I recruited on the first turn and the POD, ignoring further expansion. Had a vampire by turn 6, which was more than enough to conquer most provinces with indep lvl 3. I had 3 provinces on turn 6, and then 7 on turn 8, 10 on turn 10 (vampire took one per turn, hero noted above took the other two with the starting pikeneers. All without any special equipment on the vampire. I imagine if I had set the indep higher that would have made a bit of difference, but still, it was a no stress situation since the vampire was immortal and my domain spread fast enough that he was never in danger of permanent death. I did have to sacrifice gold income to keep unrest down (0 taxes except at capital).
Scary stuff, especially to face in a MP game. I daresay it may end up as one of the best early land grab nations.
Is this unbalancing? Well, there is still the enemy priest problem, since the vampire is undead, and then the undead-specific attack spells, but the fact that the vamp is immortal makes it tough to permanently KO if the Ulm player takes a high domain strength (esp in the first 10-20 turns).
Food for thought....
(In case anyone was wondering, I was playing a POD, death-8, blood-6(IIRC), with Order-1, Death-1 (required), Misfortune-1 (required), and Magic-1 (also required, I think). Never even recruited a fortune teller (didn't recruit much period, I just wanted to see what the summoned vampire was like)
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