Epic Heroes Mod MA game(finished)

[LoloMo]

I'll be using the same pretender as Agartha!

[Dragonninjaakira]

Uploaded new pretender for C'tis.

[Tuidjy]

I see that Pythium is taken. Has someone claimed them, or is it my
old pretender loaded? I entered this game because I wanted to try
Pythium in Dominions III while able to downplay a potential loss :-)

I would not mind trying something else if someone wants Pythium.
I am about to run two more tests with Ulm. If the results turn
as I expect, you'll see me propose alliance to Ulm on turn 1...

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Oh, and to maintain my reputation as a argumentative bastard:

> Because Smiths are generally not good battle mages early on.

When expansion is conducted with the starting troops and the free
thugs, and a starting SC pretender is not needed, Ulm can concentrate
on rapid infrastructure development. With Conj 3 and Const 3,
smiths are able to cast legions of steel, which makes many of
their troops nigh invulnerable to physical damage.

> Also, Ulm is limited to 3 Black Order Soldiers per turn,

Three free thugs which I would value at 10 gems a piece as troops,
and 25 gems a piece as commanders. If that's limited...

> and that means the Black Duke is not out searching for death magic
> sites,

The black duke has no business going out to search for sites.
Once Dark knowledge is researched (because of Summon Earthpower)
Ulm should trade for death gems, and spellsearch for death sites in
the likely provinces. With the expected rapid rate of expension,
they should have provinces where the scales indicate a death site.

> forging items

That comes later.

> or leading in battle.

Risking him in battle is insane. He should stay inside a patrolled
castle, with five thugs as bodyguards. He should be producing thugs
every turn he's not searching, forging or empowering.

[Xietor]

you have dibs on pythium.

That pretender you see is your own! If you are keeping the same pretender, you need do nothing. If you want to change, just resend and it should send you a message telling you it will use your most recent one.

[Dedas]

I understand that you want us to test your mod Xietor, and I appreciate that you give us the opportunity. But obviously it isn't ready for multiplayer beta testing just yet.
So my thought is that maybe we should just play a standard game on your excellent map for a while. In the meantime you and others who are willing can do some tests on your mod in SP. Else we are just gonna keep restarting the game all the time. What do you say?

[Xietor]

This will be our last restart. I understand your frustration dedas, especially as you are playing ulm. If you can live with Ulm getting 3 rather than 4 Black Order Soldiers, I actually would like to see Ulm in the game.

[Dedas]

It is okay.

I can actually live with having no black order soldiers at all. In my opinion they just make the early game too easy and unchallenging. They may be cool and all that when playing SP... but in MP, nah. Nice work anyhow.