Halt Heretic - Opinions

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thejeff - I agree, I really enjoy the forging bonus from a trading and diplomacy perspective. Even if I'm weak, I enjoy forging items for other people (for a profit) and helping to pick the eventual winner. But of course you can also amass large stacks of gems that help you to win, too.

Tied in with this trading edge, is another advantage for taking a rainbow pretender with Ulm. With a rainbow, you can say to potential trading partners: "I'll accept 6 gems of any type for such and such item", so you can get better deals than you might otherwise because you can find a use for any kind of gem that people might have too many of. Does that make sense? Not sure if I phrased that correctly.

Tuidjy views this as being a "forge *****" and will have none of it.

He's not completely wrong on that. Forging items for other people is not generally considered a path to victory in this game. Thing is, I enjoy doing it. I do think it is a nice advantage as well. Not quite the same caliber advantage as having a 400 gold recruitable mage, or excellent sacreds or elephants with which to crush your enemy, but it does help you win and it is a fun game within the game for me.

MA Ulm is maybe not for everyone, but with this new patch, maybe they will be better respected and rack up some more multiplayer victories.