EA Ulm advice wanted

[PvK]

EA Ulm can be very powerful, especially early on before they have to worry about nasty magic.

Of their national troops, I prefer the female warriors with shields (skilled, shielded, good value for gold and resources), and archers. Armored archers in front of unarmored archers.

Blessable two-handed sword guys can be good too, especially depending on the blessing.

The axe throwers can be ok - a blizzard of axes can be deadly, but they are vulnerable.

Warrior Smiths are of course nice. Sometimes they can make nice combat participants in various unexpected ways.

PvK

[Covenant]

PvK, what sort of blesses are worth stacking on their sacreds? And what function to the Warrior Smiths have? I usually just made as many standard Warriors as possible (10/10 is as cheap as Ulm gets, really). When I was playing against AI's, a F10 bless on the Steel Warriors was good at slicing right through Glamour, but I felt it may have been overkill.

[Edi]

A low level nature bless on the steel warriors makes them a lot more durable since regen reduces the chance of afflictions by a large margin. It's especially good since they don't have shields.

I also used primarily warrior maidens and archers in absolute masses. First unarmored but later armored archers, and hordes of warrior smiths. The best kind of battle mage warrior smiths are the E3, E2F1 and F2E1 types, because when you give them earth boots and a girdle, they will be brutal at casting blade wind, magma eruption and fireball respectively. Magma eruption is easily my favorite of those, it REALLY gets rid of the annoying enemies in quantity even if they have shields.

Shamans and antlered shamans are good for casting panic and those should be the best against big low morale things like elephants.

Edi